Sophie Ernst

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.