Ernst Lima is a transmedia artist, composer and sound designer based in Vienna, Austria.
In liminal and often mantric installations Ernst Lima expands the boundaries between cross-worldly and inter-medial existence. Through the use of of multi-instrumental sounds, exploring the transition of bodies and their physical and mental reactions to technological self-extension, Ernst Lima’s presentations create symbiotic relationships between physical and virtual corporeality expanding genres of sound, installation, live concerts and visual works, which highlights the physical reactionary component in their work.
Fluid but always deeply set, Ernst Lima’s work moves between the ephemeral and the visually manifested, weaving sound and image into sensorial compositions that gesture toward the metaphorical layers of the body—its resonance, fragility, and material echo within space and perception.
Limas work has been shown in international exhibitions such as Museum Krems, Sotheby‘s Artist Quarterly Vienna, Friche la Belle de Mai Marseille, Unseen Amsterdam, as well as live performances at
Belvedere 21, Popfest Vienna and Ars Electronica Linz.
Lima designed soundscapes for artists and companies such as Meta, Salon Hybrid, Christiane Peschek and Sebastiano Sing that were presented in venues such as Impulstanz Festival Vienna, Burning Man Festival Nevada,
Homo Novus Theatre Festival Riga, Künstlerhaus Vienna, Vienna Contemporary and Kunstmuseum Celle.
2021 Ernst Lima received the START grant for media art from the Federal Chancellery of Austria, the Bildrecht Young Artist Award as well as the the Erich Grabner Price in 2024.