Sofie Van Loo curated Gorge(l). Oppression and Relief in Art with artworks by artist including Bracha L. Ettinger, Orla Barry, Peter Buggenhout, Alda Snopek, Ana Mendieta, Francesca Woodman, Louise Bourgeois, Marlene Dumas, James Ensor. As independent art curator/writer since 2007, Van Loo curated the group exhibition The Aerials of Sublime Transscapes (Lokaal 01, Breda-Antwerp 2007-2008) with works by artist including Bracha L. Ettinger, Johan De Wilde, Jakrawal Nilthamrong, Amal Kenawy, and Trigger (2008-09, Tatjana Pieters, Ghent) co-curated with Julia Spínola, Frederic Geurts, Johan De Wilde, Ariel Schlesinger and Adriaan Verwée. She was the curator of two solo-exhibitions by Peter Buggenhout at the Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art and at Abhay Maskara Gallery (Mumbai) and has written in some catalogues on his work.
Since 2008 she is working on her PhD A bi-sexual and abstract-realistic research of "borderlinking/ differentiating" (Ettinger) and "trans-sub/ob-jective" contemporary art in the 21th century (supervisor: Prof. Dr. Paul Vandenbroeck, KULeuven). She has given lectures on contemporary artists such as Bracha L. Ettinger, Joëlle Tuerlinckx, Jani Ruscica, Bestué/Vives, Julia Spínola, Adriaan Verwée, in the academic and contemporary artworld at Cinema Zuid/ M Hka (Antwerp), MACBA (Barcelona), Kiasma (Helsinki), University College (Dublin),York University St-John and Manchester Metropolitan University. She was invited by Manuela Moscoso and Aimar Arriola to publish an art theoretical essay in the catalogue of the group exhibition Antes que todo/Before everything that included artists such as David Bestué/Marc Vives, Wilfredo Prieto, Dora García, Adrià Julià, Alex Reynolds, Patricia Esquivias, Julia Spínola (CA2M, Madrid, 2010).
Since 2009, Van Loo teaches as guestlecturer/coach at Transmedia/Sint-Lukas Brussels. In 2011 (December) she will curate the groupexhibition Coming People (SMAK Ghent) with the masters of KASK (Ghent) and Sint-Lucas (Ghent). In 2012 she will curate the group exhibition Time(d)space-Pokerface (Be-Part/ Waregem) and publish an essay for the retrospective exhibition of Patrick Van Caeckenbergh (M Museum, Leuven, 2012).