sonja cabalt
ABOUT
Sonja Cabalt is an artist/designer living and working in Amsterdam. Her work is usually about the vulnerability of people and nature. She finds inspiration in the delicate structures of the microscopic world and in the cycle of growth, flowering and decay. She plays with the coexistence of attraction and repulsion, allowing the objects to evoke positive and negative feelings. She is known for her tactile approach, playing with texture, experimental techniques and organic shapes.
EDUCATION
-Graphic design, Gerrit Rietveld Academie
(academy of fine arts and design), Amsterdam
-Textile arts and crafts, NLO Delft
-History of Art, Leiden University
EXHIBITIONS/SELLING POINTS
Art/design work
2023. Kunstkapel, Amsterdam, groupshow
2023 Ceuvel gallery Amsterdam, 'Pods', solo show
2022 Ceuvel gallery Amsterdam, 'Pods', solo show
2022 'Save spaces' gallery Kunstpraktijk, Velthoven, group show
2022 Ladekastproject, gallery Phoebus Rotterdam, group show
2022 Textile Biennial, museum Rijswijk, group show
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 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 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
Graphic design work
2000 MOMA New York, graphic design UNStudio exhibition 'The Long View'
2000 Architecture Biennale Venice, Graphic design UNStudio exhibition with 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 Amsterdam
1996 club Escape, Amsterdam, graduation Video 'Eye-move', Chemistry club nights