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
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