Sondos Abdelmalak

Sondos Abdelmalak is a Vienna-based painter and architect of Tunisian-Jordanian heritage. Trained and practicing as an architect specializing in healthcare and healing environments, she has long been preoccupied with the relationship between space, human wellbeing, and the restorative power of beauty. Painting runs in parallel with her architectural practice — not as a departure from it, but as its most intimate expression. Working in acrylics on canvas, Abdelmalak paints the sky as an emotional and psychological territory. Her large-format cloud paintings are acts of reaching — toward openness, toward release, toward a freedom that architecture alone cannot always hold. In her hands, atmosphere becomes a medium for the interior life: a place where the pressures of the world dissolve into light, color, and infinite space. Her SkyEscape series reflects a deeply personal need to transcend — to look up and, in doing so, breathe again.