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
Playground treats play as a civic technology: a means to stage friction, dependency and shared responsibility inside a constructed world. A scenographic environment for collective rehearsal, it houses Change and the Given, a collaborative fiction game in which players build and inhabit a fictional place called The Given, map its resources and shadow arrangements, and work together to shift its conditions. Conceived for the Grabbehalle at K20, the work sits within the lineage of artist-commissioned playgrounds - building on Isamu Noguchi's thinking around play as a form of political formation. The museum is approached as a public site extending the curatorial premise of access and participation. Sculptor and maker Oded Rimon developed and fabricated the sculptural structures, giving 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.
From July onwards, game sessions can be booked through the education program- details 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. Developed in collaboration with The Student Council 2024 at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie and Sandberg Instituut. The work stages institutional life: playfully examining how positions are formed, contested 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
Student Representation Platform, 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 University, 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