SOMA Art Space

SOMA is an independent non-profit contemporary art exhibition space that has been fostering collaboration between cultural practitioners and artists, scholars, and activists from around the world to promote sustainable dialogue since its founding in 2014. Art practices and thematic complexes that receive little attention in the overall societal context - the realities of FLINTA individuals, people of the global south, and lesser-told stories are the main interest of SOMA. SOMA's curatorial concept explicitly involves not prescribing established readings and ideologies to artists and collaborators, but rather bringing together a spectrum of different personal and theoretical perspectives within the thematic focus of individual projects.

SOMA defines itself as a platform that maintains an honest and mindful dialogue with the presentation of artworks. It deals with the oldest and most fundamental questions of humanity: who we are, where we are, how we are - individually and socially. In our curatorial concepts, such questions are always specified in terms of current contexts and problematic situations, to which regional and international artists and actors respond, expressing their artistic identity in the process. We also pay attention to a diversity of media - from painting, photography, video to installations and performances. The exhibitions at SOMA are regularly complemented by workshop programs, readings, symposia, and educational programs.