About
Adam Vackar is a visual artist whose practice unfolds at the intersection of contemporary art, biology, and ecological thought. He investigates entanglements between human and more-than-human agencies, with a particular focus on invasive plant species, especially the Giant Hogweed (Heracleum mantegazzianum), approached as both a biological force and a cultural construct. Through long-term artistic research, Vackar actively examines how categories such as “invasive” and “native” are produced, contested, and mobilized across scientific discourse, political regulation, and symbolic economies.
Working across installation, film, photography, and writing, Vackar develops research-driven projects that challenge anthropocentric frameworks and dominant modes of ecological knowledge.
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.
Cursus
Adam Vackar is currently a Fulbright Fellow and conducts research at the Synthetic Ecosystems Lab, Parsons School of Design. Concurrently, he is a participant in the New Museum’s NEW INC Y12 Creative Science Mentorship Program and a PhD candidate (Faculty of Fine Arts, Brno University of Technology).
Adam Vackar holds an M.A. from the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris and is pursuing a PhD at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Brno University of Technology.
His work has been profiled in the in Artforum, Flash Art, Hyperallergic, and others. His work has been exhibited internationally, including presentations at S.M.A.K., Centre Pompidou, Palais de Tokyo, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Museum Morsbroich, the National Gallery Prague, City Gallery Prague, solo presentation at Art Basel (Statements), multiple FRAC institutions in France, and other venues.
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).
Collections
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.