about

Karolina Żyniewicz

older projects: https://artdycyna.blogspot.com/

2023 – PhD in cultural studies

2018/23 – PhD study at the University of Warsaw, Nature-Culture Programme (international), Artes Liberales Faculty

2009 – MA in visual arts and pedagogy

2004/09 – Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź, Department of Visual Arts

Internships:

2021 – Art Laboratory Berlin, Germany

2021 – Linköping University, Sweden (online)

2019 – Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Mexico City, Mexico

2016 – Biological Lab, Copernicus Science Centre in Warsaw, Poland

2012 – Cricoteka, Cracow, Poland

2007 – Erasmus internship – University of Veliko Turnovo St Cyril and St. Methodius, Bulgaria

Living exhibitions and bio-sociological experiments:

2024 – Signs of the Times:

Episode 12: Center for the Arts, University of Buffalo (February 2024)

2023 – Signs of the Times:

Episode 10: Gallery XX1, Warsaw (April 2023)

Episode 11: Studio Gallery, Warsaw (September 2023)

2022 – Signs of the Times:

Episode 4: FishTankPamora, Malmo

Episode 5: Art Laboratory Berlin

Episode 6: ArtSciSalon Toronto

Episode 7: Zbąszyń Ethnographic Museum

Episode 8: FEMeeting, Evora, Portugal

Episode 9: Faculty of Polish Studies, Jagiellonian University

2021 – Signs of the Times:

Episode 1: Liebig19, Berlin,Germany

Episode 2: Łaźnia Gallery, Gdańsk,Poland

Episode 3:TOP (Transdisciplinary Project Space), Berlin, Germany

2019 – Non-human culture producers, Mexico City, Mexico

2016 – Similarity of differences, Ruhnu Island, Estonia

2016 – Symbiosis – Festival Experiment, Zbąszyń, Poland

2016 – From Life to Death and Back, bio–aesthetic experiment, Copernicus Science Centre, Warsaw, Poland

2015 – Second life, Ethnographic Museum, Zbąszyń, Poland

2015 – Pandemic of happiness, Housing Jazdów, Warsaw, Poland

2015 – The matter of transgression, Male Prison, Rawicz, Poland

2014 – Delectatio morosa, Miłość Gallery, Toruń, Poland

Selected solo exhibitions:

2014 – Hiperphobium, Lamelii Gallery, Cracow, Poland

2013 – Quarantine, Wozownia Gallery, Toruń, Poland

2012 – Private Life of Life, Baszta Gallery, Zbąszyń, Poland

2011 – Fear of Darkness, BWA, Katowice, Poland

2011 – Curiosities, Art Agenda Nova, Cracow, Poland

2010 – Spielsache, Academy of Fine Arts, Cracow, Poland

2009 – Homo ludens, Fabrystrefa Gallery, Łódź, Poland

Selected group exhibitions:

2023 – Ancestry Traveller, i3s, Porto

2023 – Festival of Relations, Gallery XX1, Warsaw, Poland

2023 – With them, Studio Gallery, Warsaw, Poland

2023 – Superorganism, Copernicus Science Centre, Warsaw, Poland

2022/23 – Membranes out of order, Kunsquartier Bethanien, Berlin, Germany

2022 – VR Worlding for Planetary Emergency, Tieranatomisches Theater, Berlin, Germany

2020 – Con(fine)arts | Exposição, Belas-Artes Lisboa, Portugal

2020 – The Life of Humans, Kronika Gallery, Bytom, Poland

2020 – Twilight of the Anthropocene, Academy of Fine Arts, Gdańsk, Poland

2019 – Beyond borders. Processed Body – Expanded Brain – Distributed  Agency, CSW Łaźnia, Gdańsk, Poland

2017 – Pernicius predilection, Labirynt Gallery, Lublin, Poland

2016 – Rocky Landscape, Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius, Lithuania

2016 – Rocky Landscape, Bunkier Sztuki Gallery, Cracow, Poland

2016 – Temptation of immortality, Copernicus Science Center, Warsaw, Poland

2016 – The in-human time, Gallery of Contemporary Art, Opole, Poland

2015 – Flow: Fallout skies/bad weather, Mona Inner Spaces, Poznań, Poland

2014 – LOCAL, The Dock Arts Centre, Carrick on Shannon, Ireland

2014 – inSpirations/Xtreme, 13 muses, Szczecin, Poland

2014 – Cake and Blood, Two Left Hands Gallery, Katowice, Poland

2013 – Exteritories, urban space, Toruń, Poland

2012 – The Limit of Sculpture, Academy of Fine Arts, Warsaw, Poland

2012 – Grating of the gums on a meniscus, Cellar Gallery, Cracow, Poland

2012 – On the strange feeling, Zderzak Gallery, Cracow, Poland

2012 – Organic, Cellar Gallery, Cracow, Poland

Art&research residencies:

2024 – Coalesce, and Medical Department of the University of Buffalo, Buffalo, US

2022 – Art Laboratory Berlin, Germany

2020 – Biofriction (a virtual residency)

2019 – Mexico City, Mexico (January – April/September – November)

2017 – Cultivamos Cultura, Lisbon, Portugal

2015 – Biophilia, Ayatana Artist Research Program, Quebec, Canada

2014 – LOCIS, The Dock Arts Centre, Carrick on Shannon, Ireland

Curating:

2023 – Matter of Flux Festival, Art Laboratory Berlin, Germany (assisting)

2022/23 – Membranes out of order, with Margherita Pevere and Theresa Schubert, Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin, Germany

Participation in collaborative research projects:

2023 – Ancestry Traveller, i3S, Porto, Portugal

2021/22 – Stretching Senses School, Cluster Matters of Activity, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany

2020 – Staying in Touch: Post-Corona Time Art Curating, in the frame of Biofriction, online

2020 – HYBRID LAB – Learning Teaching Training Activity, online

2019 – Hackathon: To understand the atypical brain, Copernicus Science Centre in Warsaw, Poland

2019 – BR41N.IO Hackathon, Ars Electronica Festival, Linz, Austria

Participation in interdisciplinary conferences and festivals:

2022 – Thinking with viruses, online

2022 – FEMeeting. Women in art, science, and technology, Lisbon, Evora, Portugal

2022 – STEAM and The Future of Education, i3s Porto, Portugal

2021 – Under the Viral Shadow, Art Laboratory Berlin, Germany

2021 – Ars Electronica Festival, Garden Gdańsk, Poland

2021 – Being one and many, Łodź, Poland

2021 – FACTT 2020, Lisbon, Portugal

2020 – Twilight of the Anthropocene, Gdańsk, Poland

2020 – The 5th USERN Congress, Tehran, Iran

2019 – FEMeeting. Women in art, science and technology, Lisbon, Portugal

2018 – Taboo, Transgression, Transcendence in art&science, Mexico City, Mexico

2018 – Why do we need posthumanism?, Poznan, Poland

2018 – Hybrid Labs, Helsinki, Finland

2018 – FEMeeting. Women in art, science and technology, Lisbon, Portugal

2017 – Taboo, Transgression, Transcendence in art&science, Corfu, Greece

2017 – Cutting of Bodies. Moving Images, Institute of Polish Culture, Warsaw, Poland

2016 – Open Fields Festival, Riga, Latvia

2015 – A fe! Social and cultural contexts of Disgust and Abomination, University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Warsaw

2015 – Przemiany Festival: The designers of Anthropocene, Copernicus Science Center, Warsaw, Poland

Teaching:

2023 – Capturing Leakage: body flows and material investigations, workshop, with Sharlotte Roschka, Art Laboratory Berlin

2022  – Capturing Leakage: body flows and material investigations, workshop, with Sharlotte Roschka, Universität der Künste Berlin

2022 – Autoetnografia i art-based research: Metody materialnych transformacji, workshop, Jagiellonian University in Cracow

2022 – Enter the Flow of Incontinent Matter, workshop with Sharlotte Roschka and Hugo Larque, Tieranatomisches Theater Berlin

2020 – Visuality as a foreign language, academic course with Monika Dubiel, Artes Liberales Faculty, University of Warsaw

2019 – Constructing life, workshop, with Jakub Piątkowski, Institute of Genetics and Biotechnology, University of Warsaw

2017 – Art&science. Art as a research method, workshop, The Station of Hydrobiology, Pilchy, Poland

2017 – Exercises from post-nature (workshop), Festival of Abstract Thought, Housing Jazdów, Warsaw

2013/18 – a collaboration with the department of education of the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw

2013/18 – a collaboration with the department of education of the National Gallery Zachęta in Warsaw

Statement:

I’ve chosen one from many different definitions of art: art is a way to perceive the world; it is a cognitive attitude. In my opinion, creation is based on staging research situations linked with crucial problems of modernity. Art should pose questions while getting the answers requires direct contact with the audience. I use the word life with an inclusive meaning. In my opinion, life as a topic contains everything essential and exciting. The crucial element of life lies in its biological aspect. That is why I decided to make biology the background of my artistic practices. I do my best to touch on critical contemporary issues such as the approach of modern people to biological aspects of their life, the social attitude to cutting-edge biotechnology, and bio-medicine. In all my artistic/research activities, I touch on boundaries. These are the borders of a body (not only the human body), between nature and culture, and between nature and post-nature (meaning the laboratory world).