From São Paulo, Brazil
Based in Berlin, Germany
︎︎︎ Commissions & Collaborations
︎︎︎ 1:1 Mentorship
︎︎︎ Monstrous Futurities (2025-2027)
︎︎︎ Beneath The Surface (2024)
︎︎︎ Planetary Embodiment (2023)
Luïza Luz (they/them) is a transdisciplinary artist, educator, and author working across spatial, textual, sonic, and embodied ecologies.
Their practice approaches education as a medium, interweaving artistic research, somatics, and theory to cultivate embodied-critical forms of learning.
Luïza founded and led the Planetary Embodiment seminar at the Berlin University of Arts (2021-2023), culminating in the publication Planetary Embodiment: Cooking With Words for Systemic Change and Solidarity.
They are the author of Beneath the Surface: Deep Listening, Buried Narratives, and Embodied Resistance (2024), published by Archive Books and We Make It.
Both publications are archived in libraries including the MET Museum in NYC, MACBA in Barcelona, Reina Sofía in Madrid, and the Spore Initiative in Berlin.
⛓️ (Current) Lecturer at the Sandberg Instituut in Amsterdam, (Past) the Berlin University of Arts, the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, the Performance Department of Justus-Liebig-Universität in Gießen, the Technische Universität in Berlin, and The Gramounce, among others.
⛓️ Works presented at MoMA PS1, KINDL - Contemporary Art Research Center, HKW - Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Gropius Bau, LAS Art Foundation, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Kunsthaus Hamburg, Belvedere21, Kasseler Kunstverein, Floating E.V, Kommunale Galerie, ACUD MACHT NEU +++
⛓️ Master’s degree from the Art in Context Institute at the UdK – Berlin University of the Arts, focusing on eco-somatic-liberation, following studies in Visual Arts, Philosophy of Language and Society, and Education in São Paulo, Brasil.
⛓️ Involved in non-academic studies since 2014, focusing on somatics, climate justice, design for regenerative cultures, Indigenous cosmovision, and systems thinking, guided by Ailton Krenak, Fritjof Capra, and many visionary beings.
Ph 1: Dina Karalash
Ph 2: Riccardo Giancola, SPRINT Milano, 2024
Ph 3: Andries de Lange, Mount Etna, Sicily, 2023
⛓️ Works presented at MoMA PS1, KINDL - Contemporary Art Research Center, HKW - Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Gropius Bau, LAS Art Foundation, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Kunsthaus Hamburg, Belvedere21, Kasseler Kunstverein, Floating E.V, Kommunale Galerie, ACUD MACHT NEU +++
⛓️ Master’s degree from the Art in Context Institute at the UdK – Berlin University of the Arts, focusing on eco-somatic-liberation, following studies in Visual Arts, Philosophy of Language and Society, and Education in São Paulo, Brasil.
⛓️ Involved in non-academic studies since 2014, focusing on somatics, climate justice, design for regenerative cultures, Indigenous cosmovision, and systems thinking, guided by Ailton Krenak, Fritjof Capra, and many visionary beings.
Ph 1: Dina Karalash
Ph 2: Riccardo Giancola, SPRINT Milano, 2024
Ph 3: Andries de Lange, Mount Etna, Sicily, 2023