Artist Statement
Sophie Jung was born in 1982 in Luxemburg and grew up in Germany and Switzerland. She studied Photography and Media Arts at the Folkwang school in Essen, the Zürcher Hochschule der Künste and graduated in 2011 from the Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam and is currently doing an MA in Fine Arts at Goldsmiths, Universizty of London. Her practice addresses representation and its pitfalls, both culturally as a system of disguised and shifting signs and personally as a way to track and record life. She regularly negotiates between form and affect, pragmatism and romance, between scrutinizing accuracy and magical awe.
Her work is strict, slick and abstract as well as emotionally involved, performative and overly literal; the intersection of form, structure and rhythm with the messy, whimsical, perturbed and oddly sentimental is the underlying tone in her work, be it video, performance, sculpture, text or photography.
Sophie Jung lives and works in Basel and London.

 

 

Sophie Jung was born in 1982 in Luxemburg and grew up in Germany and Switzerland. She studied Photography and Media Arts at the Folkwang school in Essen, the Zürcher Hochschule der Künste and graduated in 2011 from the Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam and is currently doing an MA in Fine Arts at Goldsmiths, University of London

2012 Amsterdam. MUZYQ, "Binding Image"
2012 Paris. Palais de Tokyo, "Rencontres International"
2012 Kunsthalle Mulhouse
2012 Paris. Nofound Photo Fair
2012 Paris. Gallerie L'Escale. "I Like The Way I Cut The Apple, Looks Like A Picture Of My Mum" (Solo)
2012 Luxemburg. Casino Luxembourg - Forum d'art contemporain “Making Of”
2012 Stuttgart. Kunstgebaude Stuttgart Schlossplatz “A4 - an exhibition on a piece of website” Curated by Leon Hösl.
2012 Nijmegen. Binnentuin Spinoza “Sea, Sun, Drum the Fun”
2011 Freiburg. Kunsthaus L6 “I did it again”
2011 Freiburg. Kunstverein Freiburg. “Information und Erfahrung”
2011 London. Pall Mall Gallery.
2011 Luxembourg. Musee de l'Histoire et de la Ville, Luxembourg. “Mois Europeen de la Photographie”
2011 Zurich, Hive. “P//ARTY NOW”
2011 Brussels, Recyclart. “Marcel and Friends”
2011 Amsterdam, Foam. “Teenage Magazines”
2010 Nurnberg, Akademie Galerie.
2010 Hamburg. “Fotofolgen”
2009 Zurich, Hotel Krone. “Piraten Raume” - curated by Rosa Barba and Niels Röller
2009 Newcastle, Blue Gallery. “Revisiting the Beach”
2008 Basel, Plug-In, Museum fur Medienkunst. “Electronic Rendez-vous
2008 Basel, Uovo Open Office. “The Thrill of Collecting” Curated by Das Konkret.