In her work Sophie Ernst asks questions about mediated perception. She looks at relations between architecture or objects and our memories and sense of identity. Her works evolve from conversations and interviews, and she sees making art as a response to these encounters.
The recurring medium in Sophie Ernst’s work is projection. Projection is also the subject of the publication “The Magic of Projection; Augmentation and Immersion in Media Art” (2016). A further investigation into the history of projection is the commission by Museum De Lakenhal titled De Toverkamer (2019) .
Sophie Ernst is a sculptor and video-artist. She writes and lectures about projection as well as sculpture in public space. Before studying sculpture Sophie Ernst trained as an industrial mechanic with BMW in Munich. She was a resident at the Rijksakademie voor Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam and holds a PhD in the Humanities from Leiden University.
Her work is exhibited widely including 6th Moscow Biennale; 14th Asia Triennial, Manchester; 9th Sharjah Biennial; Lines of Control: Partition as a Productive Space at Johnson Museum, Cornell University and Nasher Museum, Duke University; Move on Asia, ZKM (Karlsruhe); and solo exhibitions such as: Memory is an Ideal Place, Kunstverein Heidelberg; HOME, Yorkshire Sculpture Park.
