About
Adam Vackar is a visual artist investigating how ecological processes and nonhuman agencies reshape cultural and political imaginaries. He explores multispecies relations through invasive plants, particularly Giant Hogweed (Heracleum mantegazzianum), understood as both biological force and cultural construct. Adam Vackar examines how categories such as “invasive” and “native” are produced, contested, and mobilized across scientific discourse, political regulation, and symbolic economies. Working across film, installation, sculpture, photography, and writing, Vackar develops research-driven projects that challenge anthropocentric frameworks and dominant modes of ecological knowledge.
Working across installation, sculture, film, photography, and writing, Vackar develops research-driven projects that challenge anthropocentric frameworks and dominant modes of ecological knowledge.
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.
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 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.
His work has been profiled in the Artforum, Flash Art, Hyperallergic, Art Net, Tique, 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),
FRAC Occitanie Montpellier, FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, FRAC Franche-Comté
, 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.