Artist Profile

About Sophia Löwe

“I am a Saturn who dreams of being a Mercury, and everything I write reflects these two impulses.” -Italo Calvino

Performative Installation Artist and Reality Researcher & Collector

The here presented collection of selves is a diverse and dynamic multi-layered “society” of beings, the unity of which is called Sophia Löwe. 
 

Sophia means "wisdom" in Greek. Sophia (wisdom), Sophia (Gnosticism)

Sophia may also refer to: Sophia (given name), a given name (including lists of people with the name)

Toponymy Niulakita or Sophia, an island of Tuvalu and Sophia, West Virginia

Letters Sophia (journal), a periodical about religious and theological philosophy and Sophia (novel) by Charlotte Lennox (1762)

Music Sophia (British band) and Sophia (Japanese band) and Sophia (singer) or Sophia Abrahão, pop singer from Brazil and Sophia (The Crüxshadows EP) and Sophia (Sophia EP) and "Sophia" (Nerina Pallot song) and "Sophia" (Laura Marling song) and "Sophia", a song by Good Shoes from Think Before You Speak and "Sophia", a song by Laura Nyro from Mother's Spiritual and "Sophia", a song by Six Organs of Admittance from Dust and Chimes

Other Sophia (robot), a humanoid robot and Saudi Arabian citizen developed in Hong Kong (2017) and 251 Sophia, a main belt asteroid (1885) and Operation Sophia or EU Navfor Med, a European Union Naval Force operation in the Mediterranean (2015) and name of a vehicle in Blaster Master (1988)

SOPHIA Society for the Promotion of Himalayan Indigenous Activities (SOPHIA), nongovernmental organization based in Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India (1996) and

SOPHIA (European Foundation for the Advancement of Doing Philosophy with Children), a cooperative educational organization

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Löwe or Loewe (German for "lion") may refer to:
Business Loewe (electronics), a German television sets and other electronics maker and LOEWE (fashion brand), a Spanish luxury clothing and accessories brand and Löwe Automobil, a German automotive parts manufacturer
Military Panzer VII Löwe, a WW2 German tank project and HNoMS Gyller (1938), a Norwegian warship captured by Nazi Germany and renamed Löwe
Other Nordische Löwe, a ship owned by the Danish East India Company and Der Löwe (1944–1973), a racehorse and stud stallion

As becomes visible here, the interests and influences of Sophia Löwe’s vary wildly. They are fascinated by the overlap of perspectives and the unique experience of each. The iddy-biddy glimpse into the inside of a seashell. They make use of colors and shapes of their immediate surrounding trying to form(ulate) new narratives.

-Beware of the Ocopoctalypse-

Education

2012-2016

Bachelor in Psychology (University of Groningen)

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2014- 2018

Bachelor in Fine Arts (Academie Minerva, Groningen)

September 2016- January 2017

UDEM Monterrey (Artes)

2017- 2020

Research Master in Religion and Culture (University of Groningen)

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(Group) Exhibitions

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November 2016: Group Exhibition "Espacios Temporales"
(UDEM, Galeria 2)

Monterrey, Mexico

May 2017: Group Exhibition "LooppooL"
(Sign Galerie)

Groningen, Netherlands

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February 2018:

Group exhibition
"Tell me Y"
(Y2 Gallery)

Groningen, Netherlands

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April 2018:

"24h Residency"
together with Jannes Buerkner as artist collaborative team "Zürich"

(Kunsthuis SYB)

Beesterzwaag, Netherlands

April 2018:

"Two Peas in A Pot"
shown at group exhibition "El día después de San Valentín"
(Malteada la Vida)

Monterrey, Mexico

July 2018:

“Headliners” Minerva Endexpositie

(Oude Zuikerunie)

Groningen, Netherlands

September-October 2018:

“Midseason”

Artist Residency @ het resort

(oude Bim Station)

Groningen, Netherlands

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25.October, 2018:
"Mothernode4- Multisensory Frequencies"

open performance with Hendrik Hantschel

(NP3 Gallerie)

Groningen, Netherlands

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16.December,2018:

"Creative Sunday"

Live Painting Session with live music by HALA 

(Atelier 'Il Sole in Cantina)

Groningen Netherlands

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16.January,2019:

"Time is Money"

Group Performance

(Parnassos Community Centre @Utrecht University)

Utrecht, Netherlands

March, 2019:

Opening speech at Exhibition "Lamu- Enchanted

Island" by Michel Ptasinski,
Paderborn, Germany

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8. June,2019:

exhibiting 3 paintings from the series "Staying with the Trouble"

Nacht van Kunst en Wetenschap

Travis Alabanza @ Praedinius Singel, 

Academia Minerva, Groningen, NL

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15.June,2019:

"Okay, Brunch Forever" by Carolina Burandt (carolinaburandt.com)

performer

Bierumer School

Bierum, NL

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18. January- 19. February:

EISPRONG 2020

Group Exhibition Filler IV

SIGN Projectspace 

Groningen, NL 

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May 2020:

HOMESCREEN #2 (House)

online exhibition

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7th May:

Performative Oracle Reading

Stichting Artisbook, Groningen

Instagram Live

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Academic Speaking Engagements:

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February 2019: 

‘Designing the body. Agency and embodiment in researching African-Dutch women’s

lives.’ with Dr. Brenda Bartelink,

Talking and Walking; Exploring Intersections of Embodiment and Agency in

Religious-secular Formations.

Noster/CRCG thematic seminar,
Groningen, NL

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May 2019:

"Medusa as 'sensational form' in Yugen Blarok's Gorgon Madonna"

Masterclass with Birgit Meyer: Religion and the Image Question

Koninklijk Instituut Rome,

Italy

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June 2019:

"Dare to be an Octopus, Dare to be Creative"

Counterpoint Event: Bio-Diversity and Hegemonic Power 

Groningen, NL

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"Sa-Roc: The Goddess MC- Where Religious Imagery meets Hip Hop Feminism"

OPEN SESSION: Literature and modern Western Esotericism: continuities and changes

17th Annual Conference of the European Association for the Study of Religions (EASR):

Religion- Continuations and Disruptions

Tartu, Estonia

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"Situating oneself towards Discourse, Meaning and Matter in the Study of Religion"

OPEN SESSION: Discursive Study of Religion

17th Annual Conference of the European Association for the Study of Religions (EASR):

Religion- Continuations and Disruptions

Tartu, Estonia

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Publications:

Brenda Bartelink, Gabriela Bustamante, Lerina Kwamba, Sophia Löwe "Embodied stories: African-Dutch
women narrate (in-)visibility and agency in the city of The Hague" LOVA Journal for Gender Studies and Feminist Anthropology 41, December 2020.