Curator, arts administrator, educator, and researcher
Researching social justice art, social practice art, and post-colonialism.
Bio
Klaudia Ofwona Draber is the Executive Director & Chief Curator of KODA—a social practice residency for mid-career artists. She has lived and led arts, technology and strategy projects in Europe, Africa, and the United States. Her professional experience includes serving as Faculty at Sotheby’s Institute of Art, working as the Head of Public Relations at the Polish Cultural Institute New York, and as a consultant to the British Council Arts. She also worked at UBS, managing global change and local arts CSR projects. Klaudia was the 2021-2022 Helena Rubinstein Fellow at the Whitney Museum ISP Curatorial Studies Program. She is a board member at ArtTable and a mentor at NEW INC. Klaudia holds an MA in Art Business from Sotheby‘s Institute of Art New York. She also holds an MA in Economics from the Warsaw School of Economics. Klaudia is a PhD candidate in Practice in Curating at the University of Reading and OnCurating Academy.
Selected Curatorial Projects
2024 – Aoko: born away from home, EFA
2023 – The Ten Commandments of Renee Cox, Princeton University Art Museum
2023 – Toisha Tucker: It’s a most peculiar sensation; or that time Virginia Woolf wore Blackface, KODA
2023 – Sa’dia Rehman: Desire Lines, KODA
2022 – Benefit Show 2022, Transmitter, co-curator
2022 – Cynthia Tobar: We can’t be replaced, KODA
2022 – 1-800 Happy Birthday, WORTHLESSSTUDIOS
2022 – Jazmín López: The Great Dane, Transmitter
2022 – Mildred Beltré: Working to get there, KODA
2022 – Bahar Behbahani: Water binds me to your name, Trotter&Sholer
2022 – Rowan Renee: Solo Show, KODA
2022 – in/stasis, Artists Space, part of Whitney ISP, co-curator
2021 – Fulton Art Fair, FiveMyles
2021 – Drawing a line group exhibition, FiveMyles
2021 – Paper: post-colonial narratives, NAHP
2021 – Lina Puerta: Migration, Nature, and the Feminine, CUNY Hunter
2021 – Farideh Sakhaeifar: You are in the war zone., Trotter&Sholer
2020 – Hidemi Takagi: Stories, FiveMyles, co-curator
2019 – Home Group Salon #4, Nkechi Ebubedike, co-curator
2019 – Home Group Salon #3, Pamela Council, co-curator
2019 – Artfare Launch exhibition, Kenseth Armstead, artist liaison
2018 – Paper Plains: Tahir Carl Karmali, Sotheby’s Institute of Art-New York
2017 – Terence Koh, Plaza Hotel, Stacy Engman’s curatorial team
2015 – Marta Kawiorska, UBS Poland, assistant curator
2014 – Marcin Kowalik, Children’s Hospital, UBS partnership, artist liaison