Sonia Kazovsky
Sonia Kazovsky (DAI 2017) is an artist, researcher, and pedagogue based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Her practice interweaves artistic production, critical inquiry, and institutional intervention, engaging with the complex entanglements of history, labor, and governance. Through research, performance, and spatial interventions, she examines how historical narratives, labor structures, and institutional frameworks shape lived realities. Her work takes form in theatrical installations, pedagogical experiments, and infrastructural engagements, exploring political configurations and possibilities for transformation.
Kazovsky’s practice is research-driven and rooted in long-term collaborations, fostering relationships that extend across artistic, academic, and community-based contexts. Since 2018, she has been actively involved in pedagogical and institutional structures, and currently leads the Art and Governance program at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie and Sandberg Institute. This extracurricular initiative supports student-led projects at the intersection of art, politics, and self-organization, facilitating experiments in anarcho-collectivism, governance, and institutional practices.
In 2025, she is collaborating with POST – Platform for Contemporary Art, together with its director Lieke Wouters, on a research project commissioned by Radboud University in Nijmegen. The project involves developing a para-archiving pedagogical platform that rethinks institutional memory and the politics of knowledge production. In parallel, she is working closely with Sugar House Studios (Younes Boundi and Erica Gargardione) on integrating artistic practice into community service as an extension of art education.
Kazovsky’s work has been nominated for the Artist Revelation Prize of ADAGP at MAD (Paris) and Volumes (Zurich), and has been exhibited at the Van Abbemuseum (Eindhoven), Stichting Perdu (Amsterdam), CCA Fabrika, Post—Platform for Contemporary Art (Nijmegen), Prospects at Art Rotterdam, and Kunstraum Düsseldorf. Her publications have been presented at the Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam) and Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW) in Berlin, and are also part of the Netherlands National Library collection.
Sonia returned to the DAI as the co-curator and moderator of CONSTANT CRAVING ~ PERFORMING UNDER CONDITIONS, as Kitchen respondent, and as the author of Meditation 8.XSonia Kazovsky is also an alumni member of the DAI's Admission Committee.X
Learn more about The journey towards the radical image Sonia Kazovsky’s 20 minute presentation for Maelstrom Slow Dance - DAI's 3 day graduation lectures marathon, June 2017XLearn more about Sonia Kazovsky’s written MA thesis(DAI, 2017): Capital-as-Power: elaborating strategies in and through art in the financial and political contemporaryXFollow Sonia Kazovsky’s "life after DAI" by means of her website: www.soniakazovsky.com & instagram
