Sofia Bempeza

Curriculum

Sofia Bempeza is an artist, art/cultural theorist, and educator based in Zürich and Athens. Her work (research, performance, interventions) is focused on the politics of public spaces as well as queer-feminist subjectivities in the art and knowledge production. Her research concerns the history of art strike(s); subversion and cultural strategies of the New Right; art practices in relation to the politics of dissent; and polyphonic aesthetics.

Academic backround

Guest lecturer, Master Culture, Arts and Media, Leuphana University (2018–2020); Guest Lecturer, F+F Schule für Kunst und Design Zurich (2018); Teaching fellow and teaching assistant, Bachelor Art & Media, Zurich University of the Arts (2011–2017) ; Guest lecturer at Département Arts visuels – Haute école d'art et de design – Genève (2012).

Arts and Culture

> Founder and Co-Curator of the queer-feminist festival Aphrodite* in Athens within the framework of the Athens & Epidaurus Festival (2017–2019)

> Board member of Shedhalle Zürich (2014–2018)

> Language-facilitator at the Autonome Schule Zurich (2013–2015)

> Artistic Research within the framework of the Research Cluster Preventive Self. The Research Cluster investigated empirically the historical, societal, scientific and political aspects of interactions between programmes of health prevention and society. Associated Departments: Humboldt-University Berlin/Department of European Ethnology, Social Science Research Center Berlin, University Hamburg FSP BIOGUM/FG Medizin, Charité Berlin/Institut für Allgemeinmedizin, University of Arts Berlin. (2007–2009)

> Art Lecturer, Municipal Cultural Centre of Petroupolis, Athens (2003–2005)

Education

> Doctor Phil., Institute for Art Theory and Cultural Studies, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (2017)

> Master of Arts in Context, University of Arts Berlin (2008), Fellowship Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation

> Diploma, Athens School of Fine Arts (2004)

> Academy of Fine Arts Munich, Erasmus (2002)