First Monograph: Sophie Thun

In 2021 Phileas launched a new series of publications titled First Monographs, which provide the first comprehensive overview of the work of an Austrian or Austria-based artist and introduce them to an international audience. The first of these monographs, published in March 2022, was dedicated to the photographer Sophie Thun. It featured new writing by Lucy Gallun, associate curator in the Department of Photography at The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York: Catherine Wood, curator of contemporary art and performance, Tate, London; Lisa Long, curator at Julia Stoschek Collection, Düsseldorf and Berlin; and an interview with Charlotte Cotton, independent curator and writer. It was published by DISTANZ Verlag, Berlin, and designed by Marie Artaker.

Sophie Thun (born 1985 in Frankfurt, lives in Vienna) works primarily with analogue photography to interrogate the medium’s processes of production and means of exhibition.  She has exhibited at institutions including the Secession, Vienna; Kunstraum Munich; Kunstverein Hildesheim; Camera Austria, Graz; and ICA Yerevan. She has previously collaborated with Phileas on two international projects, an exhibition at Kim? Contemporary Art Centre in Riga, and a group exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Rome (MACRO).

First Monograph: Sophie Thun, Phileas and DISTANZ Verlag, 2022. Photo: Courtesy of Kunst-Dokumentation.com and Manuel Carreon Lopez.