Karolina Adamczak
Living Canvas at IMMA (Irish Museum of Modern Art) 4th-17th February 2025
RDS Visual Art Awards, RDS in partnership with IMMA
Living Canvas at IMMA is a partnership between IMMA and IPUT Real Estate, Dublin’s leading property investment company and supporter of the arts, that brings Europe’s largest digital art screen to the grounds of IMMA. The screening programme presents contemporary art films and moving image works, allowing visitors and the wider community to enjoy a vibrant programme of artworks by Irish and international artists in IMMA’s beautiful surroundings.
In February, Living Canvas at IMMA is thrilled to partner with the most important platform for visual art graduates in Ireland, the RDS Visual Art Awards. Presenting a specially curated programme of film and moving image work by past Visual Art Awards artists, the screenings highlight key questions of this moment. Featuring artists, Ara Devine, Michelle Hall, Elaine Hoey, Jill Beardsworth, Nikolas Ryan, Orla Comerford, Fiona Gordon, Rachel Daly, Maria Maarberg, Michelle Hall, Aoife Dunne, Nadia J. Armstrong, Karolina Adamczak, Bassam Issa Al-Sabah and Aisling Phelan. (https://imma.ie/whats-on/living-canvas-at-imma/)
Talk and participatory activity, La Vida de La Muerte (The Life of The Death),
January 31st 2025
Centre Civic Guinardo, Barcelona
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A participatory activity accompanying the exhibition La Vida de La Muerte (The Life of The Death), exploring death as a shared experience shaped by collective identity. The activity included a talk on the historical context that has led to death's exclusion from contemporary communities, based on the academic research which acompanied the creation of the work. It followed with an open discussion inspired by the format of Death Cafés, and an introspective exercise where participants reflected on their connections with others through a series of thought-provoking questions. This initiative fosters collective reflection and a deeper understanding of death in relation to identity and personal relationships.
La Vida de La Muerte (The Life of The Death), January 7th-31st 2025,
Centre Civic Guinardo, Barcelona
La Vida de La Muerte, (The Life of the Death) is a solo exhibition by Karolina Adamczak featuring her latest video installation. This work builds on her previous project, The Death of The Death, which was showcased at the Strip Art Festival in Barcelona in 2023 where she was awarded a residency in the casa d'artistes in Menorca for the work. The research and investigation undertaked during the residency has led her to develop the work the Death of The Death and culminated in the show in Centre Civic Guinardo in January 2025.
The Life of The Death explores an emotional state of displacement, as death separates us from those we long for, from reality and from ourselves. The work investigates the unoccupied place, where absence becomes a form of presence and reveals itself in the desire for repetition. It also questions the meaning of existence and whether it ends with death.
PAM!PAM!2024
https://culturabbaa.webs.upv.es/pampam24/
https://www.makma.net/pampam24-explorando-rupturas-realidad/
Photo- Darío Ochoa
PAM!PAM! is an annual exhibition where a jury from the Valencian art and cultural scene selects ten artists from the Master's programs in Art Production, Restoration, and Multimedia at the Polytechnic University of Valencia to showcase their work in a dedicated art space in Valencia. All students from these masters programs are invited to present their work to the jury in the yearly PAM! exhibition which takes place on campus. Selected artists recieve a budget to develop their work for the exhibition which takes place the following year.
Selected artists for the PAM!PAM!24 exhibition are Karolina Adamczak, BOCACO, Marta Escrig, Daniela Mariscal, Mina Nogueira, Ane Oma, Antonio Ovejero, Manel Bafaluy, Marcos Pizarro y Porkapeluda.
The set of projects on display presents a wide diversity of languages, something common in contemporary artistic expressions. In this edition, we primarily find painting, alongside sculpture, installations, videos, and photography. However, beyond this multidisciplinary approach and the variety of thematic proposals, there are several underlying narrative threads around which these works revolve. These narrative threads reflect different areas of interest such as life and death, the transformation of matter, the emotions and sensations of everyday life, the stimuli of our environment, popular visual imagery, the representation of scenes from our collective memory, the use of public spaces, the questioning of the temporal and spatial organization of things, the processes of integration of migrant communities, and the interplay between causality and information. Positioning these artists in relation to these concerns is an attempt to clarify the discursive lines presented in this exhibition, which also seek to provoke parallel reflections. (https://culturabbaa.webs.upv.es/pampam24/)
Proyectar el cambio, second edition
https://proyectarcambio.webs.upv.es/videos-2/
https://ivam.es/es/actividades/proyectar-el-cambio/
https://lapinochera.com/proyectar-el-cambio/
https://www.lacasaencendida.es/encuentros/proyectar-el-cambio-retos-ecosociales
Inauguración: La Casa Encendida, Madrid, España.
PROJECTING THE CHANGE is a cultural-audiovisual management project developed within the framework of our research into the concept of Ecological Humanities (https://ecohumanidades.webs.upv.es/).
Curated by Lorena Rodríguez Mattalía (UPV) and José Luis Albelda Raga (UPV), the second edition of the project includes video works by; Mariola Olcina Alvarado and Isidro Jiménez Gómez, Akira Mohamed Lahsen Mezgueldi, Ana G. Argüelles, Alberto Biesok, Javier Narváez Bravo, Javier Toca Lahuerta, María Penalva (Alissia), José Manuel Cifuentes Maestre, Jessyka Morales, Júlia Caixal Salvador, Rubén Marín Ramos, Stefano Scarani, Jose Carlos Rivera, Jowita Tyszka, Silvia Ariño, Karolina Adamczak and Carles Llonch Molina.
The second edition of Projecting the Change has been exhibited at various locations, including La Casa Encendida in Madrid, Spain; University of Swansea in Wales, UK; Autonomous University of the State of Morelos (UAEM) in Mexico; ANIAV Conference at the Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV) in Spain; Tenerife Espacio de las Artes (TEA) in Tenerife, Spain; Jornadas de Geografía Poética at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Teruel, Spain; and IVAM (Institut Valencià d'Art Modern) in Valencia, Spain.
PROJECTING THE CHANGE proposes to reflect on the challenges posed by the multifactorial ecosocial crisis, focusing on the role of art and, specifically, of the audiovisual medium, in the necessary change of worldview required to confront it. The conviction that drives this initiative is the need to bring the ecosocial problem into contact with the public, but fleeing from the standards of the hegemonic discourse that instrumentalises the ‘green’ to sell us a sustainability associated with more business opportunities. (https://proyectarcambio.webs.upv.es/videos-copy/)
Screen service, Digital residency, October 16 - 22, 2023
https://www.screenservice.ie/archive/karolina-adamczak
https://www.screenservice.ie/artist-directory-karolina-adamczak
The screen service digital residencies provide digital space and time for artists to exhibit work on their virtual platform.
During this residency, Karolina displayed a selection of scenes from her recent film The Death of The Death. She also presented some initial research material for her current project, The Life of The Death, consisting of raw video footage as well as some early writings and notes.
Stripart residency, Casa d'Artistes, Menorca
Photo taken by Karolina Adamczak during the residency at Casa d'Artistes, Menorca, part of the A Diary of Death series.
Karolina was selected for a residency at Casa d'Artistes Menorca for her work The Death of The Death, which she presented at the Stripart Festival. The initial research and investigation carried out on the island during the residency led her to develop the project The Life of Death, which was later exhibited at the Guinardó Civic Centre in a solo exhibition as part of the residency award. During the residency, she also produced a series of photographs that form part of her photographic project A Diary of Death.
Casa d'Artistes is a space for creation and thought managed by the association Es Far Cultural. It is located in the village of Es Mercadal (Menorca), in the middle of a rural and natural environment, and hosts research projects and / or artistic creation that are interested in the context of our island from a creative and contemporary perspective, either by the hybridization between disciplines, artistic research methodologies or areas of thought.
Translation (https://esfarcultural.net/qui-som).
Stripart festival 2023
Stripart is a festival dedicated to emerging art. This event explores different forms of artistic expression, combining them in an innovative way through a multidisciplinary proposal. Stripart stands out for its firm commitment to supporting new artistic voices, offering them total creative freedom. In addition, the festival challenges the traditional norms of established artistic circuits, breaking with the conventional logic of curatorship and promoting a space open to diversity and experimentation. The main objective of the festival is to provide a platform for young artists, allowing the visibility and production of their projects. In addition, it seeks to promote spaces for dialogue and exchange of knowledge. (https://stripart.cat/festival/convocatoria-stripart-2025/)
You breathe differently down here, Draíocht, 02 Mar-30 Apr 2022
Karolina Adamczak with the exhibition curator Amanda Coogan at the You breathe differently down here opening.
Thirty-five emerging artists explore our world through the years 2019, 2020 and 2021, a momentous timewhen our breath and our body’s fragility came sharply into focus. You breathe differently down here is an odyssey through the next generation of Irish visual art. Draíocht’s inaugural Open Call nurtures and championsearly career artists and invites us into their new world: breathe deep. Draíocht sought to create new opportunities to support and uplift particularly compelling practices developed throughout an exceptionally challenging time, a time where exhibiting opportunities were few and far between. The exhibition is a fittingcelebration of Draíocht’s 21st birthday. Amanda Coogan
Participating Artists:
Karolina Adamczak | Nadia Armstrong | Iryna Baklan | Aifric Prior Beliere | John Conway | Dominique Crowley | Owen de Forge | Ellen Duffy | Kelley Farrell | Lana May Fleming | Shane Hynan | Vanessa Jones | Alex Keatinge | Orla Kelly | Seanán Kerr | Martyna Lebryk | Jialin Long | Sarah Louise Lordan | Day Magee | Ben Malcolmson | Michelle Malone | Rory Malone | Steven Maybury | Emily McGardle | Niamh McGuinne | Dominic McKeown | Clara McSweeney | Oisín O'Brien | Patrick O'Byrne | Pól O'Connaill | Vasiliki Stasinaki | Kym Tracey | Luke van Gelderen | Ellen-Rose Wallace | Tina Whelan
Emerging artist residency, La Visiva, Open doors
Through an open call, Karolina was selected for La Visiva's emerging artist residency to develop her project Missed Deadline. The residency concluded with an event that opened the doors to the public, showcasing the process behind the work.
Missed Deadline explores the relationship and limitations of our aging bodies, the regret of choices we didn't or couldn't make as children, and the scientific concept of time.
La Visiva welcomes creators working in the field of body language and new scenic languages. With residencies divided into three modalities for both emerging and established artists, they aim to support creative projects by providing a space where artists can explore, experiment, discover, build, and share their unique imagination. (https://www.lavisiva.org/residencies)
L.E.V.E. [A Light and Easy Vanishing Event]
SIBERIA / PALOMA MUÑOZ
L.E.V.E. SIBERIA / PALOMA MUÑOZ, Mercat de les Flors
Between October 2021 and September 2022, Karolina undertook a photography and videography internship at Paloma Muñoz's dance company, Siberia Danza. She was also responsible for editing the video that was part of the company's production L.E.V.E., which was presented at Mercat de les Flors in Barcelona from April 28th to 30th, 2022.
L.E.V.E. starts from the idea of lightness to investigate the inconsistent, fleeting and provisional in relation to our body and our interactions. The choreographer wonders about the role of the body, dance and choreography in times of temporariness and the cult of the ephemeral, in times of immediacy and availability that idolize novelty, the seduction of appearances and the consumption of the fast, available and easily interchangeable.
Direction and choreography: Paloma Muñoz / Performers: Tanit Cobas, Rober Gómez, Jacob Gómez, Laia Duran / Lighting: Toni Ubach / Music: Guillem Llotje / Stage Manager: Daniel Pino / Costumes: PEDRA / Dramaturgical advice: Albert Pérez / Assistant Director: Amanda Rubio / Video Editing: Karolina Adamczak / Production: Rita Stivala / Thanks to: Iris Borrás
Co-production: Dansa Quinzena Metropolitana / With the support of the Department of Culture of the Generalitat de Catalunya; Graner (Dance and Live Arts Creation Center); Can Gassol (Mataró Performing Arts Center); Teatre-Auditori Sant Cugat; Fabra i Coats (Creation Factory); L´Estruch (Creation Factory of the Live Arts). (https://mercatflors.cat/es/espectacle/l-e-v-e-a-light-and-easy-vanishing-event/)
RDS Art members fund award winner
RDS Visual Art Awards 2021
https://www.rds.ie/rds-foundation/arts/vaa/rds-visual-art-awards-winners
https://iadt.ie/news/ba-hons-art-graduates-win-at-rds-visual-arts-awards-2021/
Karolina Adamczak wins the RDS Members’ Arts Fund Award 2021 (€5,000)
This year’s awards were presented by the RDS President, Professor Owen Lewis. The exhibition was officially launched by Catherine Martin TD, Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media. The quality of this year's applications was outstanding, and the ten artists who were included in the exhibition went through a rigorous two stage selection and judging process. (https://www.rds.ie/about-rds/news/rds-visual-art-awards-exhibition-2021-winners-announced)
Karolina was awarded the RDS Members’ Arts Fund Award 2021 for her I'm Selling myself series.
RDS Visual Art Awards exhibition 2021
https://www.mhc.ie/latest/news/the-rds-visual-art-awards-2021-exhibitor-announcement
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MA_x6RwFVk
The RDS Visual Art Awards has become of the most significant platforms for recent art graduates, with a total prize fund of €30,000. Each year an expert panel of judges nominated by the RDS, the RHA, IMMA and the National Gallery of Ireland, select artists from applications for inclusion in the high profile, curated exhibition. The 2021 RDS Visual Art Awards exhibition is on show at the RHA Gallery, Ely Place, Dublin 2 from 25 November until 19 December. The 2021 exhibition is curated by artist Vera Klute, a graduate of IADT and Associate Member of the RHA. (https://iadt.ie/news/ba-hons-art-graduates-win-at-rds-visual-arts-awards-2021/)
The 170 RDS Visual Art Awards applications were reviewed by a team of six professional curators: Sheena Barrett, Valerie Byrne, Mary Cremin, Seán Kissane, Paul McAree and Sharon Murphy. Between them, they longlisted 53 graduates to move forward to the second stage of the competition which was later shortlisted to the ten artists who now exhibit their work. (https://www.rds.ie/about-rds/news/rds-visual-art-awards-exhibition-2021-winners-announced)
The ten artists selected for the exhibition include; Karolina Adamczak, Lauren Conway, Rachel Daly, Fiona Gordon, Vanessa Jones, Orla Kelly, Catherine McDonald, Juliette Morrison, Finn Nichol and Roibí O Rua.
ORIGINS, Lismore Castle Arts, November- December 5th
Origins 2021 features the work of graduate artists from across the country and takes place at St Carthage Hall, Chapel St, Lismore.Exhibiting artists: Karolina Adamczak, Aoife Costello, Rachel Daly, Fiona Gordon, Sarah Louise Lordan, Kate McElroy, Bríanna Ní Léanacháin, Elsie Van Dam.
The 8 artists included in Origins 2021 represent some of the ambition and varied themes being explored across a new generation of artists. In particular this year a theme stood out across the graduate exhibitions, exploring issues of sexual politics, identity, equality and the female gaze. With a diverse range of perspectives and practices, ORIGINS 2021 suggests that artists are very much engaged with some of the most important issues facing us today, and how we navigate pathways forward.
ORIGINS is an annual exhibition held each autumn in St Carthage Hall as a way of presenting emerging new artists in a gallery context, alongside Lismore Castle Arts respected programme of international artists. (https://lismorecastlearts.ie/whats-on/origins-2021)
IADT On Show 2021, Graduate exhibition
https://onshow.iadt.ie/2021/student/karolina-adamczak/
https://iadt.ie/news/on-show-2021-outdoor-projection-onto-lexicon-library/
As we emerge from the most disruptive and challenging of years, we invite you to look forward with positivity and celebrate the remarkable achievements of the graduating Class of 2021.
On Show, IADT’s annual student showcase perfectly captures our students’ invention, imagination, and determination. Individually and collectively, the class of 2021 sought to overcome every restriction and practical limitation faced. In doing so, they ensured that their project outcomes fully reflected their talent, and that their professional and academic ambitions were fulfilled despite the pandemic.
As always, On Show presents inspiring work across diverse disciplines from a new generation of talent graduating from both Faculties in IADT. Through this website, I encourage you to meet our graduating students, explore their portfolio of works, and wherever possible, engage and support them as they chart the next stage of their careers. David Smith, President, IADT (https://onshow.iadt.ie/twentyone/)
In the making: High Heart — IADT at Pallas Projects
17th – 27th February 2021
High Heart presents new work by IADT Degree year BA in Art students, gathered at a specific moment in time. Like all previous iterations of In the making, High Heart is oriented toward the future. The works in this exhibition have come to life in many different places – studios, bedrooms, laptops, back gardens, sheds and kitchens. These things (like their makers) are dispersed and separated in space. But in High Heart they cohere temporarily into a living entity animated by a shared curiosity about the world, and a commitment to the process of making art.
The online exhibition includes works realised in a range of media, exploring themes such as new forms of intimacy in public and private space; tensions between fabricated and organic structures; traditions surrounding death and funerals; mechanisms for the control of nature; representations of the human body; and the constant demand for emotional labour in the customer service industry.
In the making is conceived as an experiment in learning through exhibition-making, developed with guidance from PP/S co-curator Gavin Murphy and assistance from post-graduate students on IADT’s MA in Art & Research Collaboration (ARC). Since 2015 the project has provided an early-stage glimpse into the ideas, materials and techniques currently being researched and tested by BA students and a valuable opportunity for them to extend their practices beyond the IADT studios. (https://iadt.ie/news/in-the-making-high-heart/)
Fear of Missing Out (FOMO) livestock performance art, 29th August 2019,
Mart Harold's Cross Studios
FOMO is anxiety that an exciting or interesting event may currently be happening elsewhere. As the embodied subject is increasingly produced through the use of technology, this performance event considers ways in which we experience bodies in a digital era. Curated by Katherine Nolan | Featuring Nathalie Slachmuylders, Karolina Adamczak, Orla Wittke and Karmel Daly.