exhibitions & collaborations
Collective mapping, Valley of the Possible, 2022
collections
Stadsarchief Amsterdam
AkzoNobel Art Foundation
Sanquine Amsterdam
Internationaal Danstheater
Private collections
publications
Sacks, K. (2020). ‘Drawn in the field’, entanglements, 3(1):7-30. Entanglements Journal
Drawings bear witness to the evermore precarious situation and dynamics on Lesvos during unrest and protest mid-February 2020. I explore drawing as an ethnographic practice deserving of more systematic attention in social research.
2025
• Vouch Art Fair, april 2025
• Stichting DOEN - ‘Landschap van Frictie en Falen’, een artistiek antropologisch publieksonderzoek naar de uitdagingen van participatieve kunstpraktijken
• Design Academy Eindhoven, co-tutor with Tina Lenz on contextual research
2024
• The 100 years school - visual harvest, Austria
• Gallery Fleur & Wouter - Traverse, a collection of 25 drawings, project space solo presentation, Amsterdam
• Arte.tv & Kessels Kramer - Nice to meet you - collecting voices and stories from across Europe
• Inholland & Art Partner & Maze de Boer - [s]Tattoo - supporting artist for research on social security
• Royal Anthropology Institute - paper presentation during the Fieldwork Sketches: Blurring the Lines between Art and Anthropology study day
• PHRC - Witness: Genocide through children’s eyes - curation of an exhibition with drawings from Gaza in collaboration with the Palestinian Humanitarian Response Center.
2023
• Brainwash Festival a& FreedomLab - Voorbij het humanisme
• Hogeschool Inholland en Art Partner - artistic research Mentale gezondheid en veiligheid
• AkzoNobel Art Foundation - group exhibition eARTh
• The Netherlands Red Cross - case study People on the Move in The Gambia
• The 100 years school - visual harvest, Austria
• Commissie voor de Tekeningen, het Stadsarchief Amsterdam – thematische tekenopdracht ‘Een Levensvatbare stad’
• Savory Institute – visual harvest Network reunion, Portugal
• Atölye and SYPartners - visual harvest B for Good Leadership Summit
• University of Utrecht - visual harvest Urban Geography research day
2022
• Valley of the Possible – residency BLACK EARTH Chile
• Inholland & Art Partner – artistic research ‘Studeren met een functiebeperking’
• Savory Institute, THNK, Ludens & De Nederlandse Bank, Artis & UvA Planetary Health Congress e.o. – visual harvest
• Red Cross Netherlands – artistic design for ‘Anticipatory Action’
• Galerie Fleur & Wouter – solo-exhibition ‘Solastalgia’
• Autoriteit Consument en Markt & Art Partner – artistic research ‘Vonsten van Verbinding’
2021
• Ashoka Netherlands – visual harvest Weaving for a Thriving Planet
• Savory Institute – visual harvest Design Lab
• DELA uitvaarten & Art Partner – artistic research Rituals of loss/Loss of rituals
• Universiteit van Amsterdam – collaborative research Erasmus+ ‘Anatomy of an Encounter’
2020
• Coup Cura – drawings and animations for documentary ‘Clear Connections’
• In my Backyard & Laguna Collective – independent consultant, evaluation Common Ground Works with Ylva van den Berg
• Dutch Institute in Athens, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Universiteit van Amsterdam & Panteion University – collaborative ethnographic research the Vulnerability Paradox, Athens, Greece
• THNK school of creative leadership; Kruisbestuivers & Art Partner for the Municipality of Rotterdam, VolkerWessels Infra ICT, KWS, Project Idols, Naturalis Provincie Zuid-Holland; Municipality of Amsterdam & Sara Huang – visual harvest
• Refocus Medialabs – Multi-media teacher and mentor, citizen journalism, Lesbos, Greece
2019
• Dutch Institute in Athens (NIA) and ETHNOFEST, Leiden University and University of Amsterdam – visual ethnography Safar (Journey), Greece, Athens
• VU Amsterdam – Master’s thesis Coinciding contradictions: Refugees’ daily life in displacement (cum laude)
• Galerie Fleur & Wouter – group show De grote Fleur en Wouter Show, Amsterdam
2010-2018 selection
• De Beeldvormers – co-founder, visual harvest on location
• AZC Atelier – Co-founder and teacher
• Galerie Fleur & Wouter, VoxPop – duo exhibition Revolt, Amsterdam
• Galerie Fleur & Wouter – group show Fata Morgana, Amsterdam
• Sachaqa Centro del Arte – residency, San Roque De Cumbaza, Lamas, Peru
• de Grunerie – Overzichtstentoonstelling, Oegstgeest
• Galerie Fleur & Wouter – Art Trade, Sociëteit Sexyland, Amsterdam
• Academie Galerie – groupshow Multiversum, Utrecht
• Galerie Joghem, Sanquin – group show Jubileum expositie, Amsterdam
• Gemeente Almere & Art Partner – artistic research
• Internationaal Danstheater – residency and solo-exhibition Just wait a touch longer
• Bartimeus & Art Partner – artistic research Luisterrijk en Opzienbarend
• No Mans Art Gallery pop-up Shanghai – residency and duo-show Kyra Sacks & Merijn Kavelaars
• Het Veem theater – group show Playtime!Festival,
• Galerie Joghem, Sanguin Amsterdam – solo-exhibition Heb ik mij vandaag bewogen?
• Radboud University, Nijmegen – solo-exhibition Heb ik mij vandaag bewogen? II
• De Grunerie, Oegstgeest – duo-show Kyra Sacks en Benita Mylius
• Galerie De Artillerie, Utrecht – group show Live build
• galerie STAA, Alphen aan de Rijn – group show Geslaagde kunst
• Galerie Joghem, Sanquin, Amsterdam – group show Afstudeerders expositie
• HKU graduates, Utrecht – group show Exposure