Executive Director, KODA

Klaudia Ofwona Draber is a curator and the Executive Director at KODA—a social practice residency she founded for mid-career artists. She has lived and led arts, technology and strategy projects in Europe, Africa, and the United States. She is also a Faculty at Sotheby’s Institute of Art New York in the MA in Art Business program. Her professional experience includes 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—the foremost professional organization dedicated to advancing the leadership of women and nonbinary professionals in the visual arts. 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.