About

Adam Vackar’s work is conceptually driven and operates on intersection of visual art, biology and ecological thought. He investigates interactions between the human and non-human worlds, focusing in particular on invasive plant species, most notably the Giant Hogweed (Heracleum mantegazzianum). His artistic inquiry into the Hogweed delves into its biological, socio-political, and spiritual entanglements, examining the complex web of relationships and perceptions surrounding invasive and native categorizations.

Vackar’s practice critically engages with the processes of knowledge production, questioning power structures and traditional frameworks of ecological and cultural understanding.  Adam Vackar explores through installations, films, photographs, and writing themes of ecological entanglements, resilience and human alienation from nature. His approach combines research inputs, personal narratives and autotheory.

Intersecting human perspectives with non-human agency, Vackar’s work both challenges anthropocentric viewpoints and opens new dialogues around coexistence, adaptation, and ecological futures.

Cursus

Adam Vackar is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic, where he’s currently working on his dissertation. He has been awarded a Fulbright scholarship and will conduct research at Parsons School of Design with designer, researcher, and artist Dr. Harpreet Sareen.

Vackar co-runs the interdisciplinary platform Transparent Eyeball oriented on visual art and biology, in collaboration with evolutionary biologist Dr. Jindřich Brejcha, assistant professor at Charles University, Prague. Additionally, he collaborates with renown art historian and art critic Noemi Smolik on the platform Hope Recycling Station, which organizes conferences of international artists, thinkers, philosophers, and writers.  

Vackar graduated from École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. His work has been presented at S.M.A.K., Centre Pompidou, Palais de Tokyo, Art Basel (Statements and Film), Cologne Kunstverein, Museum Morsbroich, National Gallery in Prague, City Gallery Prague, FRAC Occitanie Montpellier, FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, FRAC Franche-Comté, among others.

He has participated in residencies at Delfina Foundation in London, Residency Unlimited in New York, Pavillon at Palais de Tokyo in Paris, the Boghossian Foundation in Brussels.

Collections

Adam Vackar’s works are included in public collections at S.M.A.K. in Belgium, Museum Morsbroich in Germany, FRAC Languedoc-Roussillon in France, ETH Zürich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) – Grafische Sammlung, Prague City Gallery, GASK, Galerie Klatovy/Klenová, and others.

His works are also in private collections such as the 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.