︎ Sylvia Sadzinski curates, researches, writes, teaches, and lectures. She works across the borders of contemporary art, curatorial practice and feminist theory. Within this framework she focuses on institutional and infrastructural critique, feminist instituting, modes of togetherness, emancipatory practices, queer critique and the infrastructures of queer and feminist 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 as well as extensive discursive programmes consisting of lectures, conversations, screenings, symposia, readings, residencies and workshops as well as 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, where she has since curated several exhibitions, such as the institution’s 50th anniversary exhibition Voicing Bethanien. Ein Ausstellungsort im Kontext -
Video Installationen von Sonya Schönberger/ Berliner Zimmer.

Since 2012, Sylvia has been developing and realizing various freelance curatorial projects, often
collaboratively, such as Aliens are temporary – a mutating tale a mutating exhibition about modes of  otherness. She was part of the curatorial team of the largest international intersex-focused exhibition to date at Schwules Museum Berlin in 2021.
Further of her projects were shown at Kunsthalle Exnergasse Wien, Kunstverein Dresden, Schwules Museum Berlin and at si:said gallery in Klaipėda.
As part of the nomadic curatorial group Neue Berliner Räume, she developed exhibition projects in public space and for institutions such as C/O Berlin, Kunsthaus Dahlem, and Tieranatomisches Theater by Humboldt University Berlin.

In addition to numerous exhibition and artist texts, she has published her research findings in academic journals as well as publications on art and cultural criticism, such as 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). 

Mediating her research, she gave lectures at FU Berlin, Kunsthochschule Kassel, TU Berlin, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, daadgalerie, Kunstsammlung NRW K21, Kestner Gesellschaft Hannover, Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Kunstverein Göttingen, IPAK Center Belgrade, University of Applied Arts Vienna, Leiden University, and the American University Washington D.C., among others, and co-organized the online symposium Pornotopia Revised - Art and Porn at the Intersection of Resistance and Subversion at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.

She has had continious teaching assignments in the field of art, visual culture, and curatorial theory and practice at various inter/national art academies and universities since 2015 including the University of Vienna, the University of Oldenburg, and the University of Marburg, among others, and worked as academic research assistant and lecturer at the Institute of Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Linz.