SOFIE ØSTERBY 

BIO

Sofie Østerby (1988), graduated as a designer from the Royal Danish Academy in 2015. During her studies she spent a year in Canada studying sculptural art.

Østerby is based in Copenhagen where she targets her energy towards a broad variety of creative fields including product design, larger scale interior design and unique sculptural works. The process of creation is equally physical and digital and often takes place in collaboration with local workshops and furniture manufacturers. 3D printing, casting, cutting, and milling are recurring techniques using mainly metals, stone, glass and wood as final materials.

By merging traditional crafts and materials with modern techniques each product is obtaining a unique corporeality. She describes her design method as “a constant intuitive balancing between material presence and shape”. She finds beauty in the imperfect and as a result the individual irregularities of a given material and traces of production are highly valued in the final piece.

COLLABORATIONS

/ Rue Verte

/ Studio Oliver Gustav

/ Fredericia Furniture

/ Kolkhoze

/ Boon Room

/ Habachy Designs

/ Dest Gallery

EDUCATION

2009 - 2015
BA + MA, furniture and spatial design
The Royal Danish Academy
Copenhagen, Dk

2014
Exchange, Photo and sculpture
OCAD University
Toronto, Ca

2009
Preschool, Architecture and Fashion
Kompetencehuset
Aarhus, Dk

GRANTS

2017 Grosserer L. F. Foghts Fond 
2016 Statens Kunstfond
2016 Nationalbankens Jubilæumsfond
2016 Grosserer L. F. Foghts Fond
2014 Knud Højgaards Fond
2014 Forældreskolens Støttefond
2014 Dansk Tennis Fond
2014 Københavns Uddannelseslegat