short bio and statement
Sophie Innmann lives and works in various locations, depending on the project. In 2014, she completed her studies in painting/graphic arts at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe as a master student of Leni Hoffmann. Since 2015, she has been living and working without a permanent residence. Her project-related work stays have taken her to Paris, Barcelona, Minneapolis, Moscow, Yogyakarta, Plovdiv, Elefsina, and Berlin, among other places. Following the logic of this lifestyle, Innmann is interested in network structures, the archiving of action, appearance, and disappearance. Her works manifest themselves in different media, depending on the respective requirements of the work.
Other people often become part of her interventions, raising questions about authorship, the authority to define what art is, and the role of art in society. This is particularly evident in her long-term research project GoArtist, an art delivery service that seeks new ways of experiencing contemporary art. GoArtist was created in 2019 as a response to increasing dependencies in the age of hypertopia, the constant and location-independent accessibility of the digital world. In it, she examines the consequences of unreflective use of technological achievements, ranging from turbo-capitalism and the establishment of surveillance structures by tech giants to environmental destruction and the precariousness of the working class, who have become the working poor due to the gig economy. In the analog realm, too, the visualization of the ephemeral and the experience of reciprocal conditionality between man-made, animate, and inanimate environments and their agency are central motifs of her installations.
This connection-oriented way of thinking is expressed in Innmann‘s artistic practice in the form of collaborations with other artists and exhibitions she has curated, such as ANTHROPOZÄNTA, which she initiated in Helmbrechts in 2013. While still studying at the Karlsruhe Academy of Fine Arts branch in Freiburg, Innmann founded the offspace plan b with fellow students, which existed until 2012. From 2011 to 2016, she was part of the curatorial team at the Kunstverein Letschebach in Karlsruhe.
Her works have been shown nationally and internationally, including at the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart (Germany, 2020), MoMA Moscow (Russia, 2018), and the Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden (Germany, 2015). In 2018, she contributed artistic works for the European Capitals of Culture Plovdiv (BG, 2019) and Elefsina (GR, 2021). In 2019, she was a scholarship holder at the Cemeti Institute for Art and Society in Yogyakarta at the invitation of the Goethe-Institut Indonesia. In 2026, Atelier Mondial (Basel, CH) will enable her to conduct six months of artistic research in Armenia.
Innmann has received several scholarships, including the working scholarship from the Kunstfonds Bonn Foundation (2020) and the Neustart Kultur scholarship from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media and the BBK. In 2016, she was a scholarship holder of the Ministry of Science, Research, and the Arts of the State of Baden-Württemberg at the Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris (FR). In 2015, she received the Art Prize of the District of Hof for the exhibition project ANTHROPOZÄNTA, and in 2025, she received the 2nd prize of the Karlsruhe TechnologyRegion.
catalogue
You can order a printed copy of my catalogue SHORTCUT TO THE HIGHWAY, edited by Dr. Manuel van der Veen and published by modo Verlag Freiburg. It gives you an overview of my work from 2009 until 2019 on 144 pages and includes texts about my work from Anna Maria Katz and Dr. Manuel van der Veen. The costs are 24€ + shipping. Just send me an email with your address if you want to order one.
contact
mail at sophie innmann dot com
social media
There are multiple reasons why I don’t like instagram. I have an account there to keep in touch with friends, but I rarely post anything. I instead prefer the decentralized social media mastodon, where you can choose on which server and thus to which terms and conditions you want to open your profile. There are no manipulative algorithms selecting content for you, neither ranking your profile due to (non-)activity. There is no performance pressure caused by numbers of likes and followers. You can publish almost any kind of media files, be it video, image, audio, text or other formats and especially you are not limited in linking other websites.
Another big difference between Mastodon and Instagram is that Mastodon does not collect any user data. The Instagram app, on the other hand, collects the following data that is linked to your identity:
Health & Fitness, Financial Info, Contact Info, User Content, Browsing History, Usage Data, Diagnostics, Purchases, Location, Contacts, Search History, Identifiers, Sensitive Info, Other Data.
It’s up to you whether you want to particpate in this surveillance capitalism!