Born in Brussels in 1966, to a musicologist father and a mother who was the secretary of Israel’s ambassador in Belgium, Sophie Halbreich is a mainly self-taught artist, who is expressing herself through sculpture, painting and drawing. She grew up in a milieu of artistic culture.

In 1982 she settled in Israel. Despite her constant attraction to drawing and without putting aside her artistic work, she will undertake studies of social work (BA) at the University of Jerusalem. At the age of 26, she founded a private social service for the elderly, “Yeutze Zahav”, one of a kind, which she will manage for 12 years before going to Luxembourg and Switzerland for the next 11 years with her husband and her three children. This social service still exists.
In Luxembourg, she will join the School of Contemporary Art, during 4 years, culminating in a collective exhibition at the Luxembourg Town Hall, where she will be distinguished among twenty exhibitors with the work “The Land” in the national newspaper “The Voice of Luxembourg“.

It was in 2014, when she returned to Tel Aviv, that she discovered her talent as a sculptor by working on clay, in Alexandre Cherkov’s studio, and by creating her first bust, that of her father, which was commissioned by him while already ill.
After sculpting the bust of Yitzhak Rabin (exhibited at the Yitzhak Rabin Center), and that of Shimon Peres (exhibited at the Peres For Peace Center), Sophie decides to devote all her time to her artistic work and to her real passion: art. She will be accompanied by the curator Hadas Kedar for almost two years.

Highly influenced by her sensitivity to the human being, the suffering he endures and his social condition, it is through deeply felt emotions that her often realistic characters, sometimes surrealistic, come alive, regardless of the medium used, be it sculpture, painting or drawing.