Sophie Sahlqvist works at the intersection of structured and open artistic forms. She explores the poetics of place and the human capacity to experience the world through the senses. Her projects take shape as future landscapes and new forms of nature, created through hybrid combinations of materials and processes, and form spaces for community, negotiation, and interaction.
Her projects are rooted in specific sites, drawing on the natural conditions of the landscape, temporal dimensions, climate, and historical traces. Through site‑specific experiences and narratives, she seeks to create a sense of connection with the environments we inhabit and draw from. These narratives address what we stand to lose, but also how life and physical surroundings can transform and adapt.
As part of Bringing In The Tide, Sahlqvist contributes a landscape‑based work that centres on human coexistence with the tidal flats and their ever‑changing terrain. The work draws on local traditions of navigating the open tidal landscape when the water recedes. It connects to the cyclical nature of the Wadden Sea, where tides, lunar cycles, wind, and weather form part of the experience and mirror the landscape’s own movement, transformation, and fragile condition.
BIO
Sophie Sahlqvist (b. 1973, Sweden) is a practising landscape architect working within landscape art. She has realised a number of interdisciplinary art and architecture projects in Denmark, Sweden, and Norway, including Indsande in collaboration with artist Astrid Myntekær, and Hybrid Mutations, 111 White Plateaus, among others, in collaboration with artist Ann Lislegaard.
She is currently working on the realisation of Holmsland Hotspot, a large‑scale landscape sculpture in collaboration with artist Mette Winckelmann and Martin Winther, supported by the New Carlsberg Foundation and Realdania, as well as a landscape installation for Munkeruphus. Sahlqvist lives and works in Copenhagen and, alongside her practice, teaches at the Royal Danish Academy.