Maison Sonia. Sonia Delaunay and the Atelier Simultané

The interdisciplinary artist Sonia Delaunay (1885, Odessa–1979, Paris) early merged her ambitions in painting and design while creating an artistic framework for life in collaboration with other visionaries. „Sonia Delaunay introduces living art into the everyday“ stated an advertisement for Delaunay’s fashion and interior design workshop in 1926. As a sought-after universal artist, she designed textiles, fashion and interiors and turned her name into an internationally successful brand. Maison Sonia is dedicated to the artist’s role as a mediator between artistic innovation and the beauty of everyday life, as a designer, an entrepreneur and a passionate observer of modern life. Exhibits from the areas of fashion, textiles, furniture, commercial and book art, film and photography are presented compellingly at Mies van der Rohe’s Haus Lange. At the heart of the exhibition stands an important group of textile design drawings by Delaunay, acquired for the collection of Kunstmuseen Krefeld in 2019, which is now being shown for the first time alongside major international loans.

Curators:
Waleria Dorogova
Katia Baudin

Maison Sonia is part of the HLHE Dialogue exhibition series, which showcases the art of Sonia Delaunay and Andrea Zittel under the guiding theme Living Abstraction. With these two pioneering positions that transcend the boundaries between art and everyday life, the avant-garde of the early twentieth century meets the present.

Artistic Director Living Abstraction:
Katia Baudin