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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 in my work that takes shape in (video) essays, books and exhibitions. Often, I take found imagery as a starting point to investigate how the individual relates to larger socio-political power relations and hegemonic narrations. Thereby, I understands my work as explicitly political. It is centered around conversations – conversations as a research-method, but also as encounters with the audience.
I obtained a BA in Photography (KABK, The Hague, 2025) and now study with DAI (ArtEZ, Arnhem) at the intersections of art, activism and curation. Next to my art practice I currently work as a "programma maker" (curator) at the experimental art space Extrapool in Nijmegen with its adjacent publishing house Knust Press. Earlier professional experiences include multiple years of journalistic work and project coordination for a museum.
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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