BIO
From Lima, Peru. Based in Düsseldorf Germany.
Sofia Magdits (*1995) is an interdisciplinary Peruvian artist. Her work spans various disciplines such as textiles, performance, installations, music, and video, with a particular focus on weaving.
She combines and reimagines materials and elements to create new transcultural narratives that enable an exploration of humanity, its social bonds, and its environment, as well as the fragility of these three. An interest in participation and collaboration runs through my artistic practice. Relationships, community, and care, as well as nature, culture, tradition and craftsmanship are her main topics of research.
2023 Master student of Andreas Schulze, graduated with honors from the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf
2021 – 2022 Exchange at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris, class of Julien Creuzet and class of Emmanuelle Huynh
2016 – 2023 Fine Arts at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, class of Andreas Schulze
2014 – 2015 Fine Arts at Corriente Alterna Escuela de Arte y Diseño de Lima
2023 Nomination “Junge Positionen NRW” Künstlerzeche Unser Fritz 2/3
2022 - 2023 Koyne Programm by Arcaica Association
2022 Öres Residency, Örö Island Artist Residency in Finland
2021 Franco-German Youth Office FGYO Scholarship
2022 and 2021 ‘Auf Gehts!’ Scholarship from the Ministry for Culture and Science of North Rhine Westphalia, Germany2023 ‘Puerto Fiel’ Graduation exhibition, Kunstakademie Düsseldorf
2022 ‘Le Impiraresse’ Malkasten e.V Düsseldorf
2021 ‘Are we feeling blue?’ Das Odradek Off-Space, Düsseldorf
2023
‘Frag den Abendwind’ Retrospective of Andreas Schulze’s class. Akademie Galerie, Düsseldorf
‘Observatorium II’ Cultural Institute of Finland in Madrid
‘Positions Art Fair’ Berlin Art Weekend, Berlin
‘Nos vemos en el cosmos’ participative performance, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf
‘Sur le feu’ Theatre des Exposition, Beaux Arts de Paris
‘Observatorium’ Maa-tila Project Space und Kalasataman Vapaakaupunki, Helsinki
‘Fresh positions’ BBK Kunstforum, Düsseldorf
2022
‘Take me to the lake’ exhibition space of the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf‘Boxenstopp’ Erkrather Straße, Düsseldorf
‘Non merci pas d’assiette je le prendrais a la main’ class of Julien Creuzet, École des Beaux Arts de Paris
‘Do do not do do do don’t do’ class of Emmanuelle Huynh, École des Beaux Arts de Paris
‘Supra cosmopolita’ Cité Universitaire, Paris
2021
‘Back to reality’ Kunst und Tonic Studio, Düsseldorf
‘Stop and Smell the Roses’ public spaces in Düsseldorf
‘Flags’ Das Odradek Off-Space, Düsseldorf
‘This is not a regular Rundgang’ exhibition space of the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf
2020
‘Kunstpunkte Düsseldorf’ Kunst und Tonic Studio, Düsseldorf
‘Düsseldorfer WOrte. Nacht der Düsseldorfer Literatur’ Park-Kultur Düsseldorf
20195. Berlin Circus Festival, Tempelhof Berlin
‘Academia, a story about us’ interdisziplinary Opera, Malkasten e.V. Düsseldorf
‘In search of the lost thread’, Die Kulisse, Krefeld
Co-author of ‘An intercultura