Sabine Bolk

Sabine Bolk is a Dutch artist and batik researcher. On her blog ’The journey to Batik’ she writes about her journeys and research. Since 2009 Sabine frequently travels to Southeast Asia. In October 2019, she launched her research project ‘Retelling the History of the (Indo-) European Influence on Batik’ in Indonesia. From 2019 until December 2021, Sabine was a Research Associate at the Research Center for Material Culture in Leiden (NL) to research the batik collections in Dutch museums and archives. In her current research she focuses, next to the maker, also the wearer.

In 2023, she made the exhibition Masa Depan Batik | Future of Batik at Erasmus Huis in Jakarta, Indonesia. Next to her own work, 6 batik makers showed their batik-work and their points of view on the future of batik. Sabine writes for different platforms, organises events, gives talks, presentations and workshops to promote, preserve and protect batik.