Anne Sofie Djernis’ (b. 1993) practice is heavily focused on painting, while emphasising her ambivalence towards the medium. This becomes a driving force in investigating the nature of the medium itself, its purpose, while also driving the physical manifestation of the resulting artworks. Her painting process is centered around bodily intuition and sensitivities, and the friction that occur between these and a visual starting point. As such, Djernis departs from existing figurative material, which she subsequently alters and transforms through a bodily process, where movement, intensity and sensation are the primary focus. Inherently examining how the visual starting point of an artwork is erased through the act of painting.
Djernis received an MFA from Malmö Art Academy in 2024, and a BFA from The Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design at Bergen University in 2022. Her works have been featured in exhibitions at Minor Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark; Museum of Public Art & Sketches, Lund, Sweden; Lokale Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark; Arden Asbæk Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark; Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, Denmark and Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, Norway, amongst others.
She was the recipient of the Edstrandska Stiftelsens stipend in 2024. Her works will be included in Edstrandska Stiftelsens grant exhibition, Malmö in 2024, and at Pumphuset Konsthall, Landskrona in 2025, both in Sweden.
Djernis lives and works in Copenhagen, Denmark.