︎ Sylvia Sadzinski curates, researches, writes, teaches, and lectures across the intersections of contemporary art, curatorial practice, and feminist theory. Her work focuses on institutional and infrastructural critique, modes of togetherness, emancipatory practices, feminist instituting, and queer-feminst approaches to curating.

Since 2019, she has been artistic co-director of the feminist Berlin art space alpha nova & galerie futura. Here she regularly conceives and curates solo and group exhibitions alongside extensive discursive programmes, including lectures, conversations, screenings, symposia, readings, residencies and workshops, and community projects.

Sylvia is a lecturer at the Node Center for Curatorial Studies and has been teaching at the Berlin University of the Arts since 2022.

From 2017 to 2019, Sylvia was curator of the municipal gallery Galerie im Turm and curatorial fellow at Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin. She has since curated several exhibitions there, including the 50th anniversary exhibition Voicing Bethanien and Aliens are temporary – a mutating tale about the fluid, mutable nature of otherness also presented at Kunstbrücke am Wildenbruch.

Since 2012, Sylvia has developed and realized numerous freelance curatorial projects, often
collaboratively. In 2021, she was part of the curatorial team of the largest international intersex-focused exhibition to date at Schwules Museum Berlin.
Further projects have been presented at Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna; Kunstverein Dresden; Schwules Museum Berlin; and at si:said gallery,  Klaipėda.
As part of the nomadic curatorial group Neue Berliner Räume, she has developed exhibition projects in public space and for institutions such as C/O Berlin, Kunsthaus Dahlem, and the Tieranatomisches Theater by Humboldt University Berlin.

Her writing has been published in academic and art-critical contexts, including Gender(ed) Thoughts - Queering Minoritarian In_Visibilities in Art and Visual Culture Renegotiated (Göttingen Center for Gender Studies, 2026), How to do things with VALIE EXPORT (Spector Books, 2025), Media, Arts & Design Education+ (Owl Press, 2025), Queer Exhibition Histories (Valiz, 2023), QUEERULIEREN - Störmomente in Kunst, Medien und Wissenschaft (Neofelis, 2023), and kritische berichte (Jonas Verlag, 2016). 

She has presented her research internationally at universities including University of St Andrews Scottland, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Freie Universität Berlin, Leiden University, American University Washington D.C., and  
Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig, as well as art institutions such as Kunstsammlung NRW K21, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, daadgalerie, and Kestner Gesellschaft Hannover.
She co-organized Pornotopia Revised, an online symposium on art and porn as sites of resistance and subversion at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.

Since 2015, she has held continious teaching appointments in art, visual culture, and curatorial theory and practice at various inter/national universities, including the University of Vienna, the University of Oldenburg, and the University of Marburg, among others. She has also worked as research assistant and lecturer at the Institute of Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Linz.