Sonia Kazovsky Artist, researcher and dramaturg based in Amsterdam, NL.
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Current and Ongoing Work, Selected Projects and Institutional Collaborations:
Playground
Commissioned by K20 | Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf (2026)
Curated by Karen Archey
Sonia Kazovsky together with Oded Rimon
An intergenerational playground conceived for the Grabbehalle at K20 and developed
as a scenographic environment for collective rehearsal.
Playground is an otherworldly assemblage of sculptural elements, architectural structures and garments, forming a speculative world that models social organisation as a site of negotiation.
A narrative-based role-playing game titled Change and The Given opens the landscape for collective
world-building, inviting players to contest with the contingencies and vulnerabilities of collective agency. The work is situated within the lineage of artist-commissioned playgrounds,
building on Isamu Noguchi's thinking around play as a form of political formation.
Playground treats play as civic technology; a means to stage friction, dependency, and shared responsibility. The work extends my broader practice around governance, emancipatory
theatre and civic pedagogies, asking what it means to live together and what can be changed structurally through rehearsal. The museum is approached as a public site, building on the
curatorial premise of access and participation, and the production of the work as an extension
of this thinking. Sculptor and maker Oded Rimon, developed and fabricated the sculptural
structures that give material form to the playground's world.
The work was produced in collaboration with Boris Kollar, Otakar Zwartjes and Amir Avraham.
Opening April 25, 2026. More information can be found here.
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. Developed in collaboration with
The Student Council 2024 at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie and Sandberg Instituut. The work
stages institutional life as a site of negotiation, playfully asking how positions are formed,
cotested and held under pressure.
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
At the Gerrit Rietveld Academie and Sandberg Instituut, Amsterdam
Starting from 2025 a new formation of the student representation platform is taking shape.
Working together with students across both institutions towards a platform for student
representation and an extracurricular trajectory in Art and Governance, situating art education
within questions of governance, collective authorship and institutional agency.
Soft launch event by the first cohort is set for May 15th 2026.
Civic Pedagogies at the Jewellery–Linking Bodies department
In collaboration with Sonja Bäumel at the Jewellery-Linking Bodies department
at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie
Developing a sustained practice of relational education and civic pedagogies.
This ongoing research and practice, extends my broader commitment to emancipatory
and political education attending to the ways such work takes form through infrastructural
as much as curricular means.
Some of the 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.
A new stage of the work took place in February 2026, expanding the course into
a cross-departmental trajectory and in collaboration with Dynamo Amsterdam. You can read more about it here.
The Latijnse School as a witness - in a search for an unruly cosmology
Commissioned by Radboud Universityin Nijmegen in collaborating with POST – Platform for Contemporary Art and director Lieke Wouters and curator of public program Martine van Lubeek
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.
Selected Publications, Exhibitions, Performances:
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