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SONJA ILLUSTRATES
IN THE NEWS
BIENNALE-KÜNSTLERIN SONJA CHRISTOPH: »VISUELLES STORYTELLING INSPIRIERT MICH"
Interview with Danina Herrmann, Falstaff Magazine
(April 19, 2024)
Biennale Artist Sonja Christoph: "Visual Storytelling Inspires Me."
Die Biennale di Venezia feiert in diesem Jahr ihr 60. Jubiläum. Unter dem Motto »Stranieri Ovunque - Foreigners Everywhere« versammelt die internationale Kunstausstellung 332 Künstler und Kollektive aus aller Welt, ergänzt durch 87 nationale Pavillons sowie 30 begleitende Events. Sonja Christoph, Gastkünstlerin im Pavillon von Kamerun, spricht im Interview über die Hintergründe ihrer Werke, ihre Zusammenarbeit mit Drei-Sterne-Koch Kevin Fehling – und teilt die Inspirationsquellen Ihrer Kunst.
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(May 7, 2024)
On April 18th Sonja Christoph and husband Alessandro left Como to travel by train to Venice for the day. This was just one of the many, and one of the shortest of journeys undertaken by Sonja in her moves from her native Florida USA to Como via Heidelberg, Munich and London. But perhaps, for all that, this was one of the more personally significant journeys taken until now – she was delivering her artwork entitled ‘Frames of Reference’ for display in the Venetian Biennale.
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THE GLOBE BY KEVIN FEHLING, FINE DINING AUF DER EUROPA
Article by Andreas Conrad, Front Row Society
(JULY 14, 2021)
The Globe by Kevin Fehling – the new gourmet restaurant on the EUROPA – symbolizes beginnings and returns, both for 3-star chef Kevin Fehling and for the luxury cruise ship itself. During the last shipyard stay at the beginning of October 2019, Hapag Lloyd Cruises adapted the luxurious ship to the changing demands of exclusive cruise guests.
... Black and white illustrations by the London artist Sonja Christoph, who captured Kevin Fehling's career in pictures, underline the authenticity of the restaurant. This unique ambience shows that astronomy, just like cooking and EUROPE, belong to Kevin Fehling as a person."​
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FAIRY TALES, WANDERLUST AND LANDING IN COMO
Interview with Julian Coleman, The Como Companion
(October 2019)
"It must be more than coincidental that so many creative people like Sonja Christoph are drawn to live in Como – the city nominated unanimously back in June by Italy’s UNESCO committee to form part of UNESCO’s ‘Network of Creative Cities’. She herself was unaware of Como’s creative designation, nor necessarily of its astounding recent achievements in art, architecture and both furniture and textile design. But as an art illustrator with a passion for folk tales and fables and as a wife and mother committed to fostering the creativity of all of her family members, it’s as if Como’s spirit and location called her here to join the ever-growing number of local foreign residents involved in the arts."
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Project: The Globe Restaurant
BY HAPAG-LLYOD & KEVIN FEHLING
(October 2019) Hamburg, Germany
A series of custom illustrations created for Kevin Fehling's new restaurant, The Globe. The series was chosen to decorate the main wall of the new restaurant aboard the Hapag-Llyod luxury cruise ship known as the MS Europa.
Project: Illustrations for the
3-MICHELIN STAR CHEF, KEVIN FEHLING
(2016 - Present) Hamburg, Germany
Take a look at the extensive series of custom illustrations created for the Hamburg culinary legend, Kevin Fehling. I began working with Kevin in 2016 providing him with unique fairytale-esque illustrations inspired by his life. I have consistently worked with him year after year.
Interview with the Editor and Chief of
THE TABLE MAGAZINE
(January 2019) Germany
A wonderful four page interview with details about my work and process that appeared in The Table Magazine early in 2019.
SONJA CHRISTOPH - FAIRYTALE & FABLE\
Interview with Shanelle Cunningham, SW MAMAS THAT CAN
(October 2018) London, United Kingdom
An interview by London blogger Shanelle Cunningham of "SW Mamas That Can" about local female entrepreneurs living in southwest London who are juggling thier creative businesses with the role of being a mother.
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Project: Art Published in (vol.1,2,3 & 4) of
THE TABLE MAGAZINE
(October 2018) London, United Kingdom
I have produced a number of paintings and illustrations that have appeared in four different volumes of Kevin Fehling's in house magazine, The Table.
Interview with Rhiannon Davies
MARVELLOUS MUMS ON A MONDAY
(March 2017) London, United Kingdom
An interview from a Rhiannon Davies highlighting female entrepreneurs who are living and working in London. Read the article here.
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