Adam Vackar is currently participating in the New Museum’s NEW INC Y12 Creative Science Program. Concurrently, he is a Fulbright Fellow and conducts research at the Synthetic Ecosystems Lab, Parsons School of Design, The New School, and a PhD candidate at Brno University of Technology.
His work has been exhibited internationally, including presentations at S.M.A.K., Palais de Tokyo, Centre Pompidou, Museum Morsbroich, Kölnischer Kunstverein, the National Gallery Prague, City Gallery Prague, solo presentation at Art Basel (Statements), FRAC Occitanie Montpellier, FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, FRAC Franche-Comté, and other venues. His work has been profiled in the Artforum, Flash Art, Hyperallergic, Art Net, Tique, and others.
Adam Vackar holds an M.A. from the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris.
He has participated in residencies at Delfina Foundation (London), Residency Unlimited (New York), Pavillon – Palais de Tokyo (Paris), Cité des Arts (Paris), and the Boghossian Foundation (Brussels).
Adam Vackar’s work from recent years investigates multispecies relations and ecological narratives through the lens of invasive plants. Specifically Giant Hogweed (Heracleum mantegazzianum), a plant brought from the Caucasus to Europe by British colonial botanists in the 19th century, now declared a public enemy across the Western world. It dominates global media as a monster plant, and has been the target of aggressive eradication campaigns: armies deployed, landscapes doused in chemicals, communities mobilized to destroy it on sight. A plant that traveled with empire is now being violently expelled from the territories that imported it. Adam Vackar’s research sits inside that contradiction. He’s examining how biological processes and ecological classifications produce cultural and political imaginaries, and what it means to wage war on a weed. Vackar’s practice moves across ecology, biosemiotics, film, installation, sculpture, and writing, grounded in years of fieldwork, interviews, and scientific collaboration.
Adam Vackar’s previous works question the critique of overconsumption and consumer logic, an ideology that has gradually rewritten itself into the DNA of progressive politics.
Adam Vackar co-directs the interdisciplinary platform Transparent Eyeball, founded in collaboration with evolutionary biologist Dr. Jindřich Brejcha (Charles University, Prague), fostering dialogue between visual art and biology.
He further collaborates with art historian and critic Noemi Smolik on Hope Recycling Station, an international platform organizing conferences and public programs with artists, theorists, and writers.
His work is held in public collections including S.M.A.K. in
Belgium, Museum Morsbroich in Germany, FRAC Languedoc-Roussillon in France, ETH Zürich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology), Prague City Gallery, GASK, Galerie Klatovy/Klenová, and others.
Vackar’s works are also in private collections - Fondation Antoine de Galbert, Marc et Josée Gensollen Collection in Marseille, and Anetma in France; the Frédéric de Goldschmidt Collection in Brussels; the Time Capsule Collection in Zürich; and the Sanz Esquide & Cortell Collection in Barcelona, as well as other private collections in Switzerland, France, Germany, Belgium, Canada, Italy, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia.