•Sophie Allerding• (she/they) is an interdisciplinary artist focused on storytelling and its role in shaping the world around us. Their work spans visual art and social practice, employing media such as photography, role-play, installations, and radio.
As a first-generation migrant, Sophie’s work is nurtured by Brazilian and Bolivian folklore, animism, and magical realism. Through world-building and speculative fiction, their practice offers a platform for reimagining and reshaping dominant narratives while envisioning futures for desirable worlds. Using collaborative storytelling, they challenge oppressive structures, including human dominance over nature, gender-based power imbalances, and the hegemony of Western knowledge systems.
Sophie is an active member of the feminist collectives
Possy and Radio Echo Collective and is part of .zip, an artist-run interdisciplinary project space in Rotterdam.
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Sophie’s work was presented among other sites in the Deichtorhallen Museum for Photography (DE), Landesmuseum Koblenz (DE) Hallo: Radiofestival X-Kanal (DE), the Climate Utopias Festival (FI), Nederlands Fotomuseum (NL) Goethe Institut Vietnam (VNM) Transmission Radio Art festival (DE) and Climate Art Fest (DE) and Centro de la Imagen (MX), Städtische Galerie Karlsruhe (DE) and Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam (NL).
Friends and collaborators
This is an ongoing and continuously expanding list of peers I have collaborated with or who are otherwise connected to my practice. If you are interested in my work, you might also want to explore the work of these people. Please let me know if you notice anyone missing from this list.
Louisa Teichmann is a frequent collaborator who shares my interest in play. Together, we organize play-test sessions called Playground at .zip.
.zip currently hosts my practice, providing immense support and inspiration. I am grateful to be part of this community alongside Roos Groothuizen, Cyanne van den Houten, Ymer Marinus, Erik Peters, Louisa Teichmann, Charlotte Brand, Remco Akkerman, and Ginevra Petrozzi.
Lina van Jaruntowski is an artistic researcher and designer who often supports me by thinking along with my projects.
Ari Adamski is an artist and choreographer with whom I have created various participatory events.
Lucila Pacheco Dehne, a childhood friend and collaborator, has been instrumental in embracing next-level feminist world-building.
Noemi Biro and Pleun Gremmen are both media artists and TouchDesigner wizards. Together, we created a magic mirror.
Jana Romanova is an artist with whom I have created and played LARPs.
Ana Garcia Jácome is a visual artist with whom I collaborated on research for the Anatomical Theatre.
Daniel Siegersma is a constant source of inspiration and exchange. He also reviews almost all of my applications.
Amy Gowen from HumDrumPress provides excellent editorial and proofreading support, including for the publication of The Politics of Knowledge research group.
My peers in the feminist collectives Possy and Radio Echo continuously support and inspire me connecting feminist activism and art and cultures.
This website was designed by Saskia van der Meer.
The fonts in use are TorreFarfan by Estefania Gonzalez Sanchez and Isobare by Clemence Fontaine.
•Sophie Allerding• (she/they) is an interdisciplinary artist focused on storytelling and its role in shaping the world around us. Their work spans visual art and social practice, employing media such as photography, role-play, installations, and radio.
As a first-generation migrant, Sophie’s work is nurtured by Brazilian and Bolivian folklore, animism, and magical realism. Through world-building and speculative fiction, their practice offers a platform for reimagining and reshaping dominant narratives while envisioning futures for desirable worlds. Using collaborative storytelling, they challenge oppressive structures, including human dominance over nature, gender-based power imbalances, and the hegemony of Western knowledge systems.
Sophie is an active member of the feminist collectives
Possy and Radio Echo Collective and is part of .zip, an artist-run interdisciplinary project space in Rotterdam.
