VISUAL ARTIST
Karolina Maria Dudek is a Polish visual artist living and working in London. She holds MA in Photography from LCC and BA in Photography from Camberwell College of Arts. She mainly works in the field of photography but her practice includes video, installation and site-specific work. At the age of twelve, her mother passed away after a long and devastating illness that left her with void and fascination with temporality and death. Since then, she seeks to explore the uncanny and mundane aspects of death, an unwavering intrigue with the transience of life. In her work she examined the very process of decay by photographing dead crow every week for over a year or by using her deceased mother’s hair as a starting point to understand the metaphorical meaning of what remains after someones passing. In The Grey Breaks, one of Dudek’s video pieces, she documents a life of a very poor family in China that works every day for very long hours making by hand the plaster grey breaks, explores the determinism of existence, the concept that the course of one's life and the events that unfold are predetermined or influenced by external factors beyond individual control. In her more recent work she explores the vision of the world from a future perspective where life on the planet is dominated by AI and humans no longer represent the superior species. She seeks to identify the effects of the twentieth-first century’s zeitgeist in everyman's existence. Her observations are oscillating between the human as an individual and the human as an element of complex world structure. Dudek's work, often intuitive and ephemeral, explores in a very poetic way the ‘everyday’ and often enquiries allegory within the rational modern world.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024, Impossible Worlds, BPM Photo Biennale, Mulhouse
2024, Beyond the frame: Lacuna is to be filled, Four Corners Gallery, London
2024 Imagine, Rotterdam Photo Festival, Nederlander
2023, Der-Greif, Munich
2023, Liquida Photo Festival, Turin
2017, Story of Don, Human Rights Festival, UCL, London
2016, Pilorum, Kunstquartie Bethanien, Berlin
2013 Untitled, Photo Fusion Gallery, London
2012, The Grey Bricks, New Gallery, London College of Communications, London
2012 The grey Bricks, Arts Gallery, Zhejing
2012 Metroland, Goodenought Space, London
2012 A Few Elements of Everybody’s life, New Gallery at LCC, London
2010 Welcome in Dreamland ,Square Meter Gallery, London
2008 Degree exhibition Camberwell College of Arts, London Untitled,
2008 Dym Gallery, Krakow
2007 Metamorphozis, Central Space, London Untitled,
2006 Human, Photography Studio Panorama, Krakow
2005 Untitled, Southwark College Gallery, London
2003 Mask, Art Centre, Krakow
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2012, The Grey Bricks, Sunhoo Industrial Park, China
2011, Untitled, Bow Art Studios, London
2010, Hate, Silent Room Gallery, London
2009, The Great Harmony - Diversion, Bunhouse Gallery, London
2009, The Dead Crow: Months of Evidence, Art’s Bar, London
2009, Inside, Gallery in Theatre Nowy, Krakow
AWARDS
2012 UAL, finalist of Sproxton Award for Photography, Lonon
RESIDENCES
2012 Creative in Residency, China
PUBLICATIONS
2016 Pilorum
2011 The Dead Crow
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