ABOUT

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Sonja Cabalt is a multi-disciplinary artist/designer living and working in Amsterdam. Her work focuses mainly on processes of growth and decay, from micro to macro level and shows the vulnerability of nature and people. 

She is known for her tactile approach, playing with texture, experimental techniques and organic shapes. 

Because her work moves between abstraction and figuration it is often difficult to interpret. This creates a certain tension and remains

open to the viewer's interpretations and imagination.

 

 

Studio

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Her studio is located in Amsterdam in the eastern harbour district and is

open to visit by appointment.

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Education

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-Graphic design, Gerrit Rietveld Academie (academy of fine arts and 

 design), Amsterdam

-Textile arts and crafts, NLO Delft

-History of Art,(bachelors) Leiden University

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EXHIBITIONS/SELLING POINTS

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Art/design work

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2021  Textile Biennial, museum Rijswijk, group show

2021  Art around, Art chapel Amsterdam, group show (postponed)

2020  Open studio weekend Loods 6, Amsterdam

2020 'Achter de ramen' Amsterdam

2020  Art Company, Eindhoven

2020  Museum Leids Wevershuis, solo show

2019  Museum Leids Wevershuis, solo show

2019  Art Company, Eindhoven

2019  Contrasten, Bagagehal Loods 6 Amsterdam, group show

2019  Object, fair for contemporary art and design Rotterdam

2019  Textile museum Tilburg, museum shop

2019  Coda Museum Apeldoorn, museum shop

2018  Doksalon, Amsterdam

2018  Gallery Stark, Amersfoort

2018  Gallery XS, Delft

2018  Textile museum Tilburg, museum shop

2018  Coda Museum Apeldoorn, museum shop

2017  Open studio weekend Loods 6

2017  Kunstschouw, Zeeland, NL; art route, group show

2017  Gallery XS, Delft

2017  Textile museum Tilburg, museum shop

2017  Summer Expo, Museum de Fundatie Zwolle, group show 

2017  Coda Museum Apeldoorn, museum shop

2016  Textile museum Tilburg, museum shop 

2016  Hair, Centraal Museum Utrecht, museum shop 

2015  Gallery KNSM 301, Amsterdam, owner

2014  Guild of 14, Gallery 33, Amsterdam, group show

2014  Summer Expo, Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, group show

2014  Gallery 'Ruimte Remmelink', Delft, group show

2013  'Onverwacht Ambacht' competition, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen Rotterdam, group show 

2012  Unlimited Design contest; Eindhoven Design Week, Museum night Amsterdam, Museum night          Berlin, group show

2012  International Joomchi and Beyond, Atrium Gallery, Rhode Island,US, group show

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Graphic design work

 

2000  MOMA New York, Graphic design UNStudio exhibition 'The Long View'

2000  Architecture Biennale Venice, Graphic design UNStudio exhibition plus two video loops

2000  Gallery Innsbruck; design UNStudio exhibition/cd rom

1999  Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam,'The Best Dutch Book Design' Book 'Move' for UNStudio

1996  Installation 'Eye-move', Labour Party youth congress in Amsterdam 

1996  club Escape, Amsterdam, graduation Video 'Eye-move' during Chemistry club nights 

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