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SOFIA BEMPEZA
 
Sofia Bempeza
1979 born in Athens, Greece
Lives in Berlin, Germany
Education

2006-2008 University of Arts Berlin, Master of Arts in Context
1998-2004 Athens School of Fine Arts

Grants

2010 Award, Careum Stiftung Switzerland
2006-2008 Scholarship for artists by Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation
2002 Sokrates Erasmus Scholarship at the Fine Arts School in Munich - ADBK

Solo Exhibitions

Private measures - Public meters. D624 project space, Athens (2005)

Group Exhibitions

Pecha Kucha #4, Geneva (2011) / Rooms 2010, Kappatos Gallery, Athens (2010) / FettesARCHIV: Das Glück ist dick!, Arttransponder, Berlin (2009)/ Art’s pulse II, A. S. Onassis Foundation, Athens (2008) / Spannungsfelder, Arttransponder, Berlin(2008) / Art’s pulse II, A. S. Onassis Foundation, Athens (2008) / Extended stay, GAF Istanbul (2007) / Rooms to let, Action field Kodra. Thessaloniki (2007) / VideoVaka, GalleriBOX, Akureyri - Island (2007) / Fata morgana, New Benaki Museum - Peiraios, Athens (2006) / Knips die Wand an! Berliner Fotoalbum, Berlin (2006) / Private measures - Public meters, D624 project space, Athens (2005) / Strictly appropriate ‘Αυστηρώς κατάλληλον’ , Byzantine Museum, Athens (2004) / Proti Katoikia (First Residence), Housing estate for refugees, Alexandras Avenue Athens (2003).

Projects

2009-2011
U10 von hier aus ins Imaginäre und wieder zurück
Kunst im Untergrund, NGBK Berlin
www.U10-berlin.de and www.ngbk.de

2007-2008
Research Cluster: Preventive Self.
Interdisciplinary Investigation of an Emergent Life Form
Associated Departments: Humboldt-University Berlin/ Department of European Ethnology, Social Science Research Center Berlin, Charité Berlin - Institut für Allgemeinmedizin, University Hamburg FSP BIOGUM / FG Medizin, University of Arts Berlin
www.csal.de / www.fettesarchiv.org

2006-2008
feels like home! Intervention in 9 public squares in Berlin and Istanbul

Bibliography

FettesArchiv, Das Glück ist dick!, (Hg.) Wolfgang Knapp, Sofia Bempeza, Anja Sommer, Steffen Krüger, Can Sungu, Berlin 2009.
Aus dem Kontext, (Hg.) Universität der Künste Berlin, Berlin 2008.
Image-Space-Action 2, Chamber of Fine Arts of Greece, Athens (Ed.), 2008.
Art’s pulse II, Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation (Ed.),
Athens 2008.
Action field Kodra 07 - 7th visual Arts Festival, Cultural Organisation Municipality of Kalamaria (Ed.), Thessaloniki 2008.
fata morgana, The National Book Centre of Greece (Ed.), Athens 2006.
Strictly appropriate/ Afstiros katallilon, The National Book Centre of Greece (Ed.), Athens 2004.
Homage to national poet Kostis Palamas, The National Book Centre of Greece (Ed.), Athens 2004.
Landscapes of writing, The National Book Centre of Greece (Ed.), Athens 2001.

Links

www.sofiabempeza.org
www.fettesarchiv.org
www.U10-berlin.de
www.machtraum.de
www.d624.org

Contact
Paul Robesonstr. 1A
104 39 Berlin
Phone: +49(0)30 49809290
Email: sofiabebezaki@hotmail.com