Sophie Bouvier Ausländer (1970, Swiss)

Sophie works in Lausanne and London. After studying at the ECAL, the École Nationale Supérieure d'Arts Visuels de la Cambre in Brussels and Central Saint Martins, College of Art and Design in London, she completed her PhD at the Slade School of Fine Art, UCL in London in 2019. Her work is part of institutional collections such as Banque Cantonale Vaudoise CH, Bordier & Cie CH, Caldic Collectie NL, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois Lausanne, Crédit Suisse CH, Frankel Collection USA, MBAL Le Locle CH, MCBA Lausanne CH, Musée d'Art du Valais CH, Musée Jenisch CH, Retraites Populaires CH, Ville de Lausanne CH, UCL Art Museum UK and private collections in Europe, the United States, the United Kingdom and Switzerland. Another aspect of Bouvier Ausländer practice is public art which she as mainly made in her home country. Her two most noticed projects are Manières de faire des mondes (2016, Renens), a sculptural library for a secondary school, and Ursinae (2022, Ostermundigen), a roof made of coloured glass. Sophie Bouvier Ausländer was awarded the Grand Prix de la Fondation Vaudoise pour la Culture in 2017. Her most recent monograph is Words, Works, Worlds, 2021, published by Patrick Heide Contemporary Art.