Luïza Luz (they/them) is a transdisciplinary artist, educator, and author. Their work moves between the personal, the political, and the ecological, weaving language and embodiment as mediums of emancipation.
They are the author of Beneath the Surface: Deep Listening, Buried Narratives, and Embodied Resistance (2024, 2026), published by Archive Books and we make it, and In Defiance, We Listen Deeper: (dis)Embodiment and the Planetary Transition (forthcoming, 2026). Their publications are archived in libraries including the MET Museum in New York, MACBA in Barcelona, Reina Sofía in Madrid, and the Spore Initiative in Berlin.
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 lecture at Sandberg Instituut Amsterdam and run a 1:1 mentorship programme for artists, educators, researchers, and writers.
︎︎︎ (Current) Lecturer at the Sandberg Instituut in Amsterdam, (Previous) the Berlin University of Arts, HBK Braunshweig, Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, Performance Department of Justus-Liebig-Universität in Gießen, 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