Natalia Sokol


Natalia Sokol aka Koza is the leader of the Russian highly political art-group Voina. Sokol together with her husband Oleg Vorotnikov is founding member of Voina, a political artist group in Russia. Since their formation in 2005, Voina performs agitation in public space and openly critiques against the Putin administration.
Natalia Sokol has been involved in the Voina works such as: Mordovian Hour, 2007, Throwing Cats in McDonald's; Fuck for the heir Puppy Bear!; Decembrists Commemoration; Storming the White House; Cock in the Ass; Leo the Fucknut is Our President!; Dick Captured by KGB Palace Revolution and others.
In 2012 Natalia together with other leaders of Voina was announced as an associated curator of Berlin Biennale.
On April 28, 2015 Natalia Sokol asked for political asylum in Switzerland. Vorotnikov stated that the family wanted to return Russia but worries about the fate of their three children prevented this.
On September 20, 2018, the European arrest warrant for Sokol's husband, the leader of the Voina Group, Oleg Vorotnikov on charges of illegal weapons possession and trafficking was issued by the Austrian police.