ABOUT
Sonja Cabalt is a multi disciplinair artist/designer, located in Amsterdam. Her work is based on a personal engagement with finding beauty in the imperfect, impermanent and incomplete, to create pieces which embrace the natural cycle from growth to decay.
By exploring a broad range of materials, techniques and processes, often combined with traditional crafts, she aims to create new poetic worlds, seducing the viewer with their visual appeal but allowing mixed feelings with her balance of attraction and repulsion.
Studio
Her studio is located in Amsterdam in the eastern harbour district and is open to
visit by appointment.
Education
-Graphic design, Gerrit Rietveld Academie (academy of fine arts and design), Amsterdam
-Teacher 2nd grade crafts and textile arts, NLO Delft
-History of Art,(bachelors) Leiden University
Exhibitions/selling points
Art/design work
2020 Art in Oost, group show
2020 Kunstbeurs Heemstede, group show
2020 Art Company, Eindhoven
2020 Museum Leids Wevershuis, solo exhibition
2019 Museum Leids Wevershuis, solo exhibition
2019 Art Company, Eindhoven
2019 Contrasten, Bagagehal Loods 6 Amsterdam, group show
2019 Object, fair for contemporary art and design Rotterdam
2019 Textiel museum Tilburg, museum shop
2019 Coda Museum Apeldoorn, museum shop
2018 Doksalon, Amsterdam
2018 Galerie Stark, Amersfoort
2018 Galerie XS, Delft
2018 Textiel 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 Galerie XS, Delft
2017 Textiel museum Tilburg, museum shop
2017 Zomer Expo, Museum de Fundatie, Zwolle, group show
2017 Coda Museum Apeldoorn, museum shop
2016 Textiel 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 Zomer Expo, Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, group show
2014 Gallery 'Ruimte Remmelink', Delft, group show
2013 Handmade, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam,
group show 'Onverwacht Ambacht' competition
2012 Unlimited Design contest, Eindhoven Design Week, Museum Night
Amsterdam and Museum Night in Berlin, group show
2012 International Joomchi and Beyond, Atrium Gallery,
Rhode Island,US, group show
Graphic design work
2000 MOMA New York, Graphic design UNStudio exhibition 'The Long View'
2000 Architecture Biennale Venice, Graphic design UNStudio exhibition, plus design and implementation of two video loops
2000 Gallery Innsbruck; design UNStudio exhibition/cd rom
1999 Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, 'The Best Dutch Book Designs'
Book 'Move', designed for UNStudio
1996 Installation 'Eye-move', Labour Party youth congress in Amsterdam
1996 club Escape, Amsterdam, graduation Video 'Eye-move' for
several Chemistry club nights
Publications
2017 Catalogue Zomer expo
2017 Catalogue Kunstschouw
2014 Catalogue Zomer expo
2011 Collection of art work in 1000 Artisan Textiles contemporary fiber art
2000 Catalogue 'The Best Dutch Book Designs' award, design and implementation of book 'MOVE' for UN Studio
2000 Interview on architecture books, in 'Items', the Dutch journal of design
1996 Graduation work graphic design Gerrit Rietveld Academy of art and design in 'Items', the Dutch journal of design