Sonia Kazovsky  Artist, researcher and dramaturg based in Amsterdam, NL.

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Current and Ongoing Work, Selected Projects and Institutional Collaborations:

Playground: Sonia Kazovsky 

Commissioned by K20 | Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf (2026)

Curated by Karen Archey 

An intergenerational playground conceived for the Grabbehalle at K20 and developed as a

scenographic environment for collective rehearsal. The Playground is an otherworldly assemblage of

sculptural element, architectural structures and garments creating a speculative world 

that models social organisation for negotiation. An open table top Role Play opens the landscape for experimentations with collective world-building to exploring contingencies and the vulnerabilities of collective agency. Positioned within the lineage of artist-commissioned playgrounds, the work extends on Isamu Noguchi's thinking around play as a form of political formation treating play as civic technology; a means to stage frictions, dependencies, and shared responsibility in public space. The museum is approached as a public site, building on the curatorial premise of access and participation.

The production of the work invited many collaborators among which are Oded Rimon, Boris Kollar, Otakar Zwartjes and Amir Avraham. 

Opening April 25, 2026. More information to follow. 

The Crisis Game – An Institutional Live Action Role Play or How To Navigate Across Different Positions

A speculative, decision-based LARP for 12 or more players, rehearsing the formation of

collective agency, governance and complex decision-making.

If you're interested in the game kit or organising a play session, feel free to reach out.

A short trailer and more information are available here. 

Art and Governance 

In 2025, I began shaping the new Student Representation platform at the Rietveld Academie

and Sandberg Institute, working towards an extracurricular trajectory in Art and Governance.

Civic Pedagogies at the Jewellery–Linking Bodies department 

Over the past five years, I have worked closely with Sonja Bäumel at the

Jewellery-Linking Bodies department, at Rietveld Academie, developing relational and civic

pedagogies within art education. Some of this work is documented in Testing The Waters

by CoE CI and available here. An online version of the publication of our most recent project can be found here. We are currently developing an infrastructure to launch the continuation of this work in 2026, expanding the course into a cross-departmental trajectory.  

The Latijnse School as a witness - in a search for an unruly cosmology

In 2025, I have been collaborating with POST – Platform for Contemporary Art, together with its

director Lieke Wouters, on a project commissioned by Radboud University in Nijmegen.

Staging the Latijnse School as a historical witness, the project invites local narratives

and collective memory into dialogue with institutional history. Open to the public since October 2025, Nijmegen History Week and came to a completion in January 2026 with the project becoming part of the University's cultural collection. For more info and opening times see here and here.

Snippets of Published, Exhibited, Performed

Power Play – Fighting for Dead and Non‑Existent Spirits (2019)

Sex Work Is Honest Work: A Preliminary Glossary (2021)
Lowell Re:Offering – Conjuring the Ghosts of Lowell (2024) – Distributed by Jessepresse.nl
Lowell Re:Offering– Trailer (2024)

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For contact or to request a full CV or portfolio:
info@soniakazovsky.com