Photo: Hidemi Takagi
Klaudia Ofwona Draber
Director of Programs, Finnish Cultural Institute in New York
Biography
Klaudia Ofwona Draber is a curator focusing on social justice and cross-cultural exchange. She serves as the Director of Programs at the FCINY. Her professional experience includes leadership at KODA, at the Polish Cultural Institute New York, at the British Council, and at UBS. Klaudia was the 2021-2022 Helena Rubinstein Curatorial Studies Fellow at the Whitney Museum’s Independent Study Program (ISP), and has curated numerous exhibitions including: Aoko—born away from home (2024) at EFA Project Space, The Ten Commandments of Renée Cox (2023-2024) at the Princeton University Art Museum, 1-800 Happy Birthday (2022-2023) at WORTHLESSSTUDIOS, and in/stasis (2022) at Artists Space with the Whitney Museum of American Art, among others. She mentored at ArtTable, and New Museum’s NEW INC. Klaudia holds an MA in Art Business from Sotheby‘s Institute of Art-New York, and an MA in Economics from the Warsaw School of Economics. Klaudia is a PhD candidate in Practice in Curating at the University of Reading.
