Sofia Eckholt Caffese
Visual Artist and Graphic Designer from Chile
based in Brisbane, Australia
” Color is light, and light is life “
“I am interested in art not simply as an object that communicates, but as an experience that creates space to be”
Artist Statement
My practice explores the relationship between perception, environment and inner experience.
My work begins with an encounter with nature: light, rhythm, movement, atmosphere and material qualities. Rather than representing a landscape literally, I translate these observations through colour, texture, materiality and abstraction, allowing intuition and experimentation to guide the process.
Working across painting, objects and spatial experiences, I am interested in how an artwork can become more than something to look at, and instead create a condition for attention, stillness and presence.
My research is informed by biophilia, neuroaesthetics and environmental psychology, particularly the ways natural patterns and sensory qualities shape how we experience a space. I do not seek to prescribe what the viewer should feel. Instead, I am interested in creating enough space for them to slow down, become present and encounter their own perceptual and inner state.
In a culture of constant stimulation, I am drawn to the possibility that art can offer the opposite: not more noise, but room for silence.


Bio
Sofía Eckholt is a Chilean visual artist and graphic designer based in Brisbane, Australia. She is currently undertaking a Master of Visual Arts at Griffith University, where she is expanding her painting practice through material, sensory and spatial experimentation.
Over time, her practice has expanded from graphic design into painting, objects and spatial experimentation, developing a visual language informed by nature, materiality and sensory experience.
Her work has been exhibited across South America, Europe and Australia, including the VI Biennial of Contemporary Art in Argentina and group exhibitions in Byron Bay and Buenos Aires.
PROCESS AND RESEARCH
My process combines observation, intuition and material experimentation. I work with colour, texture, natural patterns and layered surfaces, allowing each work to develop without a predetermined outcome. My ongoing research draws from biophilia, neuroaesthetics and environmental psychology, exploring how sensory and perceptual qualities found in natural environments can be translated into contemporary visual art.
By bringing some of these qualities into the spaces we inhabit, I hope the work can create moments of calm, connection and presence. I think of these works as bodies of light: objects that hold colour, materiality and atmosphere, bringing a quiet presence into the spaces they inhabit.
Selected Exhibitions & Biennials
2017 – 2026
Selected Exhibitions & Bienals
2017 – 2026
2018
Centro Cultural Espacio Matta
Santiago de Chile
Pinacoteca
Universidad de Concepción, Chile
Encuentro Creativo de Oficios y Arte
Santiago de Chile
