Each year, the Cranford Collection invites an artist to create a site-specific project for its remarkable Link Room, designed by David Chipperfield. These projects are presented alongside a curated installation of artworks from the Collection, displayed throughout the house.

For 2025, Cranford Collection welcomes Sophie von Hellermann. Following previous editions by Cassi Namoda (2024), Isabella Ducrot (2023), and Matthew Lutz-Kinoy (2022), this project explores the Link Room’s architecture and its role as a space for gathering and exchange.

Sophie von Hellermann’s relationship with the Cranford Collection began in the early 2000s and has remained an ongoing dialogue. The year 2025 marks both the artist’s 50th birthday and the Collection’s 25th anniversary, making this a multilayered celebration—of an artist, of London’s art scene over the past quarter-century, and of the enduring bonds between collectors, artists, and place.

Photography: Richard Ivey


About Sophie von Hellermann

Sophie von Hellermann (b. 1975, Munich) lives and works in London and Margate, UK.

Her paintings capture the everyday and reimagine it as an unfolding narrative, imbued with magical and mythological undertones. Behind her seemingly effortless, fluid approach lies an acute sense of observation and composition. Blurring the boundaries between life and fiction, von Hellermann combines diaristic intimacy with collective history. Her distinctive virtuosity has established her as one of the most significant artists in contemporary British painting.