Sophie Erlund is a Danish-born artist, living and working in Berlin, since 2003, and in Munich since 2025. In her practice, 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 and understanding the world through the irrational mind, and in particular our ongoing entanglement with artificial intelligence and its impact on our psychology.
Sophie Erlund’s artwork has been exhibited in galleries, museums and institutions across Europe and the US for over two decades, and she is represented by the gallery PSM in Berlin.
Since 2019, she is a core member of the art-science interdisciplinary research project Experimenting, Experiencing, Reflecting (EER) at Aarhus University, which runs until the end of 2025.
Sophie Erlund has been working as a researcher in the core team of the artist Olafur Eliasson, since 2018, focused on developing experimental strategies for the creative process through curating engagement and collaborations with external partners from science, anthropology, philosophy and the arts. Between 2007-2018 she was part of the workshop team at Studio Olafur Eliasson.
In recent years prior to joining TUM, Sophie Erlund has held short term lecture positions at Julius Liebig University, Gießen (BA Fine Art), Weisensee Art Academy, Berlin (MA Fine Art) and University of the Arts, Berlin (MA Architecture), and Aarhus University, DK (Anthropology).
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