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20/09/2019 - 22/11/2019

Sophie Foster's artistic practice revolves around site-specific performance and temporary intervention about narrative, identity, memory and place. She has a prolific interest in engaging with architectural, natural and historical sites and how they are commemorated within social and political contexts. Her aim is to extract memories within specific locations using outdoor space as a catalyst for discussion, utilising photography, installation and performance methods to achieve it. She is currently investigating the physical action of walking and place making and how they demonstrate navigational decisions, as well as questioning the archival processes into personal memory and connections one has to a site.

Sophie Foster (2018) CO-ORDINATION. Public intervention and Performance A collaborative performance with Maedeh Nassouri at the Ilm park in Weimar. Responding to "bridging" as a concept, we worked together to keep the connection using a piece of string as we walked along the river. Photographer: Vincent Brière.
Sophie Foster (2018) CO-ORDINATION. Public intervention and Performance A collaborative performance with Maedeh Nassouri at the Ilm park in Weimar. Responding to "bridging" as a concept, we worked together to keep the connection using a piece of string as we walked along the river. Photographer: Vincent Brière.
Sophie Foster (2018) DIE BRÜCKEN. Photo and audio installation An attempt to cross all 133 bridges in Kalbe. However, most of them were either damaged or driveways into public properties and ironically, couldn't be crossed. So only the foot of each bridge could be photographed instead. Part of the Winter Campus 2018 residency at Künstlerstadt Kalbe. Special thanks to Melanie Ludwig for translation.
Sophie Foster (2018) DIE BRÜCKEN. Photo and audio installation An attempt to cross all 133 bridges in Kalbe. However, most of them were either damaged or driveways into public properties and ironically, couldn't be crossed. So only the foot of each bridge could be photographed instead. Part of the Winter Campus 2018 residency at Künstlerstadt Kalbe. Special thanks to Melanie Ludwig for translation.
Sophie Foster with Rafaella Constantinou, Matthew Lloyd and Edoardo Tedde (2017) DO WE HAVE AN ISLAND MENTALITY? Fireplace Talk Referring to their home countries, the islanders presented their views on island mentalities linking the natural boundary of water with other conceptual boundaries including politics and travel. Part of the 3.Berliner Herbstsalon. A cooperation with the Maxim Gorki Theatre Berlin. © MFA-Programme “Public Art and New Artistic Strategies”, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar.
Sophie Foster with Rafaella Constantinou, Matthew Lloyd and Edoardo Tedde (2017) DO WE HAVE AN ISLAND MENTALITY? Fireplace Talk Referring to their home countries, the islanders presented their views on island mentalities linking the natural boundary of water with other conceptual boundaries including politics and travel. Part of the 3.Berliner Herbstsalon. A cooperation with the Maxim Gorki Theatre Berlin. © MFA-Programme “Public Art and New Artistic Strategies”, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar.
Sophie Foster (2017) RETURNING A PLACE TO A KNOWN EARLIER STATE. Performance and Photo Installation. An archaeological conservation at the former quarry site of Buchenwald Memorial, Weimar where limestone was excavated within a 2m x 2m plot. The stones were cleaned, archived and then returned back to their found locations. The work was exhibited as a photo installation with a written report of the excavation process. © MFA Programme “Public Art and New Artistic Strategies”, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. Photographer: Vincent Brière.
Sophie Foster (2017) RETURNING A PLACE TO A KNOWN EARLIER STATE. Performance and Photo Installation. An archaeological conservation at the former quarry site of Buchenwald Memorial, Weimar where limestone was excavated within a 2m x 2m plot. The stones were cleaned, archived and then returned back to their found locations. The work was exhibited as a photo installation with a written report of the excavation process. © MFA Programme “Public Art and New Artistic Strategies”, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. Photographer: Vincent Brière.

Sophie Foster

Sophie Foster is an artist from the UK currently based in Germany. After completing a Combined Honours degree in 2010 at Newcastle University UK, she remained in the city working as a contemporary artist and arts educator within the lifelong learning sector. She accomplished her first solo exhibition Transitions: At a Snail’s Pace (2012) with the National Glass Centre in Sunderland, a progression from her Living Sculpture conceived and performed in 2010. During 2013 she was awarded the AA2A residency at Northumbria University, working in their paper studio, a unique facility for the research and teaching of paper in relation to fine art, conservation and archiving. She later moved to Germany in 2016 after being accepted onto the MFA programme Public Art and New Artistic Strategies at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar under Prof. Danica Dakić of which she recently completed.

Past Residencies

2023

Landscape, Ecology & Environment Research Residencies

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