Sonia’s work occupies a compelling intersection between expressive abstraction and material storytelling, where gesture, texture, and emotional resonance merge into a tactile visual language. Rooted in the post-war legacy of Joan Mitchell, Lee Krasner, and the lyrical abstraction movement, her paintings expand this tradition through a distinctly feminine and contemporary lens — one that transforms emotion into matter, and matter into memory.
Her practice explores the tension between control and release — a metaphor for both personal and collective transformation. Each piece emerges from an intuitive process of layering acrylic, gesso, sand, and modeling paste, creating surfaces that invite both visual depth and tactile intimacy. This use of material density as emotional language aligns her work with current curatorial discourses around embodiment, sensory experience, and female agency in abstraction.
Recurring motifs such as portals, organic forms, and rhythmic gesture reference cycles of creation and renewal — portals between the visible and invisible, structure and chaos, the self and its release. These forms carry echoes of textile traditions and ancestral memory, grounding her abstract language in a lineage of craft and feminine creation.
Within the contemporary field, Sonia J. represents a wave of artists redefining abstract painting as a sensorial and emotional practice. Her work resonates with the international movement toward material abstraction — where surface, process, and touch embody psychological and spiritual narratives.
Her exhibitions in Berlin, Barcelona, Milan, Braga, Verona, and Venice place her within the emerging European network of artists contributing to the renewed language of expressive materiality — a key taste-making current supported by galleries such as BBA Berlin, Divulgarty Milan, and It’s Liquid Group.
Recognized as one of the Top 10 Berlin Contemporary Artists (2024–2025), Sonia J. was selected for the European Artist Award 2025 in Venice for international excellence in contemporary abstraction. Her paintings are represented on Saatchi Art, Singulart, and Artmajeur, with an AKOUN valuation (15P format) and sales across European private and hospitality collections.
In an era increasingly defined by conceptual distance, Sonia J´s paintings remind us of the body’s intelligence — of art as a form of emotional transcription. Her practice transforms vulnerability into power, gesture into presence, and the act of painting into an affirmation of becoming.
