The work of Sonja Braas, born in Siegen in 1968, is both fascinating and mysterious. Majestic to dramatic perspectives on nature or irritating detailed structures are frequent themes in her works. Yet somehow they seem strange and artificial. This impression is part of her concept, as the photographs are based on models that she has previously constructed in her studio with extraordinary precision. Enigmatic, sometimes eerie scenes are frozen in time. From the very beginning of her career, she has explored the idea of a certain media-influenced image of nature and the complex world around the individual.
She lives and works in Germany and New York and her works are part of international collections such as the Albright Knox Gallery, Buffalo, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Städtische Galerie Wolfsburg, Museum Küppersmühle, Duisburg, Deutsche Bank Collection, Munich RE and EON AG.
