Karolina sobecka biography of martin

Her artwork has been shown internationally, from the Queens Museum NY, to National Art Museum of China, to ZKM Karlsruhe, Transmediale Festival, and Haus Kulturen der Welt Berlin, and has received numerous awards, including from Creative Capital, New York Foundation for the Arts, and Princess Grace Foundation.

Sobecka has a PhD from Kunstuniversität Linz, is a researcher at the Institute for Experimental Design and Media at HGK Basel, and was a Visiting Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin from 2021 to 2023.

Through her projects, Karolina participates in and instigates interdisciplinary collaborations, often in the settings of science and policy. She has received awards from, among others, NYFA, Creative Capital, Princess Grace Foundation, Rhizome, Platform International Animation Festival, Vida Art and Artificial Life Awards, and the Japan Media Arts Festival.

Her current projects explore the histories of ecology and their legacies in the contemporary formulations of carbon governance. One of the questions driving Karolina’s research is how artistic methods can be used outside of the art context towards socially-just ends such as repair of the environmental degradation of the planet. Karolina received her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and her MFA from Calarts in Experimental Animation/Integrated Media.