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Salome Erni
(she/her), *2001 in Switzerland, based in the Netherlands
As a research-based visual artist, curator and writer I explore narratives and collective narrations. Conversations, collaborations and research intertwine. Often, I take archives and found imagery as a starting point to my practice which takes shape in (video) essays, books and exhibitions.
I am interested in the circulation of images, their changing contexts and connotations. For me, photographs are visual manifestations of relationships; I treat them as snippets of perspectives to investigate how the individual relates to larger socio-political power relations and hegemonic narrations. I understand my work as explicitly political. It is centered around conversations – conversations as a research-method, but also as encounters with the audience.
Currently I work as a "programma maker" (curator) at the experimental art space Extrapool in Nijmegen with its adjacent publishing house Knust Press.
exhibitions
Prix Photoforum, Photoforum Pasquart, Bienne (2025) • anané x UFM, filmfestival anané, Olten (2025) • filmfestival Upcoming Filmmakers, Lucerne (2025) • Graduation Show KABK, The Hague (2025) • Open Student Call Noorderlicht, Groningen (2025) • This Didn't Make It To Grad, Billytown, The Hague (2025) • Lens on Law: Edges of Proximity, west Den Haag, The Hague (2025) • A Year in Exile, Quartair, The Hague (2025) • Paradise, The Hague (2025) • How Language Flows, Zurich (2024) • a butterfly was finding out yesterday how to make sense of misunderstandings, The Hague (2024) • Open Student Call, Noorderlicht Photography, Groningen (2023) • Fotowerkschau Luzern, Luzern (2023) • Genius Loci, Hochschule Luzern, Emmenbrücke (2022) • BLAMAGE|PASSAGE, Kali Galerie (2021)
curation
Onland, Extrapool (2026) • Greenland. Everything Changes, ALPS (2024)
(collaborative) publishing
Interesting Things • further 05 by Fotobus Society • Lens on Law: Edges of Proximity • Outside the State: Our relationship to the land, by Essarter Éditions • Greenland. Everything changes by Fotobus Society • The Landscape Assembles as We Gaze • further 04 by Fotobus Society • phroom magazine • Young Photographer Monday by ronorp • CIRCLE (associated with KABK, The Hague) • EUSTORY • Luzerner Zeitung/ CHMedia
awards and grants
nomination Prix Photoforum (2025) • Paris Photo - Aperture PhotoBook Awards (2025) • 2nd Prize at 22nd Upcoming Filmmakers (2025) • finalist of Blurring The Lines Talent Program (2025) • nomination of the exhibition Grönland. Alles wird anders for the DASA Awards (2025) • Annual Scholarship Swiss Study Foundation (2023)
Impressum
Salome Erni // studio esa
mail (at) salomeerni (dot) com
Nijmegen (NL)
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