
Prof. Dr. Sophie Erlund
Academic Career and Research Areas
Professor Sophie Erlund is a Danish-born artist, living and working in Berlin and Munich. She was appointed Professor of Art in Architecture at TUM in January 2025. In her artistic research practice, Sophie Erlund has long explored a variety of themes and questions about the more-than-human, creating sculptures, videos, installations, complex soundscapes, and most recently also virtual reality film works. The works deal with the central theme of transition, perceptual mechanics and understanding the world through the irrational mind, and in particular our ongoing entanglement with artificial intelligence and its impact on our psychology.
Professor Sophie Erlund’s artwork has been exhibited in galleries, museums and institutions across Europe, North and South America, and North Africa, for over two decades, and she has been represented by the gallery PSM in Berlin since 2009. She holds a degree in Fine Art Sculpture from Central St. Martin’s College of Art & Design in London. Since 2019, she is a core member of the art-science interdisciplinary research project Experimenting, Experiencing, Reflecting (EER) at Aarhus University. Sophie Erlund brings guests from her extensive international network of interdisciplinary thinkers to TUM from her career as a fine artist and from over a decade of working as part of the team of Studio Olafur Eliasson, developing experimental strategies for the creative process through curating engagement and collaborations with external partners from science, anthropology, philosophy and the arts.
Prior to being appointed Professor of Art in Architecture at TUM, Sophie Erlund has held short term lecture positions at Julius Liebig University, Gießen (BA Fine Art), Weißensee Art Academy, Berlin (MA Fine Art) and University of the Arts, Berlin (MA Architecture), and Aarhus University, DK (Anthropology).
Awards
- Semper Ardens, Carlsberg Foundation, research group: Experimenting, Experiencing, Reflecting (2019-2026)
- Danish Arts Council, Artist research & work grant (2018)
- Norwegian Arts Council, Project grant (2016)
- Danish Arts Council, Artist research & work grant (2015)
- Danish Arts Council, Artist research & work grant (2009)
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