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Aesthetica Magazine
2024
Aesthetica Art Prize — Longlist
Beate Sonnenberg was longlisted for the Aesthetica Art Prize 2024, one of the UK's most respected prizes for contemporary art. The selection recognised her lens-based practice and its investigation of light, perception, and perceptual transformation.
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Glass Magazine
2021
Rothko Homage — Commissioned Editorial
Glass Magazine commissioned Sonnenberg to shoot Rothko Homage, a full beauty editorial exploring colour, light, and surface in the spirit of Rothko's chromatic fields. Art direction by Johanne Mills.
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Aesthetica Magazine
2019
Playful Abstraction
Aesthetica Magazine included Sonnenberg in its feature on artists working with light as subject and medium. Her series Somewhere in Between was highlighted for its constructivist approach — shining light through prisms of transparent material to create spatial paintings and fields of intersecting colour.
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Selected Awards
International Color Awards — "City Scape", Winner in Abstract, 2018
IPA — "Memories of the Green Valley", Honourable Mention, 2017
AOP Awards — "Somewhere in Between" / "Sweetest Thing", Finalist, 2017
International Color Awards — "Dancing Colours", 1st Place in Abstract, 2017
Clio Print Gold & Silver, 2008