Sophie Innmann completed her studies in Painting/Graphics at the State Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe/Freiburg satellite campus in 2014, graduating as a master student under Leni Hoffmann. Her project-based working residencies have taken her to Paris, Barcelona, Minneapolis, Moscow, Yogyakarta, Plovdiv, Elefsina, and Berlin, among other places. Following the logic of this way of life, Innmann is interested in network structures, the archiving of action, and the phenomena of appearance and disappearance. Her works manifest in various media, each determined by the specific necessities of the project. She develops research-based concepts that respond to human-made idiosyncrasies and make their impacts on our shared environment tangible.

Her works attempt—through both analogue and digital means—to make the ephemeral visible. They emerge against the backdrop of mutual conditionality and interdependence, granting agency across species to both the animate and the inanimate environment. This raises questions about authorship, the authority to define what art is, and the role of art in relation to society. These concerns become particularly clear in her long-term research project GoArtist, an art delivery service that has been exploring new modes of experiencing contemporary art since 2019.

This connection-oriented way of thinking is also expressed through collaborations with other artists, as well as in exhibitions curated by Innmann such as ANTHROPOZÄNTA, which she initiated in Helmbrechts in 2013 and has organized together with Daniel Vollmond since 2023.

Her works are shown nationally and internationally, including at the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart (DE, 2020), MoMA Moscow (RU, 2018), and the Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden (DE, 2015). In 2018 she created artistic contributions for the European Capitals of Culture Plovdiv (BG, 2019) and Elefsina (GR, 2021). In 2019 she was a Goethe-Institut Indonesia fellow at the Cemeti Institute for Art and Society in Yogyakarta.

Innmann has received several grants, including the working grant from Stiftung Kunstfonds Bonn (2020) and the Neustart Kultur grant from the Federal Commissioner for Culture and the Media together with the BBK. In 2016 she was awarded a residency by the Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts of the State of Baden-Württemberg at the Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris (FR). In 2025 she received the 2nd Prize of the TechnologyRegion Karlsruhe—“Can AI create art?”—for her work Schlafes Bruder.