Karel De Grote Hogeschool/Sint-Lucas Antwerp and Transmedia/Sint-Lucas Brussels, BE
About Sofie
Sofie Van Loo curated the group exhibition Gorge(l). Oppression and Relief in Art (Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp 2006-2007) with artworks by Bracha L. Ettinger, Orla Barry, Peter Buggenhout, Alda Snopek, Pé Vermeersch, Berlinde De Bruyckere, Robert Seidel, Frida Kahlo, Ana Mendieta, Francesca Woodman, Louise Bourgeois, Marlene Dumas, James Ensor and many others. As a freelance curator, Van Loo curated the group exhibition, The Aerials of Sublime Transscapes (Lokaal 01, Breda-Antwerp 2008) with works by Bracha L. Ettinger, Johan De Wilde, Peter Buggenhout, Jakrawal Nilthamrong, Ori Gersht, Nogah Engler, Amal Kenawy, Alda Snopek, Maryam Najd and many others, and Trigger (2008-09, One-Twenty Gallery, Ghent) with Julia Spínola, Frederic Geurts, Johan De Wilde, Ariel Schlesinger and Adriaan Verwée. She is working on a PhD on contemporary art and Bracha L. Ettinger’s concepts ‘borderlinking’, ‘differenciation/differentiation’, ‘transsubjectivity’ and the artwork as ‘transject’. She teaches art and research at the Karel De Grote Hogeschool/Sint-Lucas Antwerp and Transmedia/Sint-Lucas Brussels.