BIO
Karo Zacharski was born in 1998 in Kielce, Poland. Since 2024, he lives and works in Bergen
In 2018–2023, he studied at Warsaw’s Academy of Fine Arts at the Faculty of Media Art, defending his bachelor’s diploma in 2021, awarded with the Rector’s Distinction.
In 2023, he defended his master’s diploma.
Since 2024, he has been studying at the University of Bergen, at the Faculty of Fine Art, Music, and Design.
Karo participated in a variety of festivals, including the Open Out Festival in Tromso, Post Porn Film Festival in Warsaw, Immersion Festival in Warsaw, ICIA Festival in Cracow and Light Move Festival in Lodz. His works were also exhibited in institutions like KODE in Bergen, CSW Kronika in Bytom and WOK Lab in Warsaw.
STATEMENT
Karo uses mostly new media, such as sound, 3D, VR, and installation; he is open, however, to other means of expression. While designing his projects, he mostly creates a series of complementary components in order to engage as many of the spectators’ senses as possible.
Karo is a trans man and transhumanist. The topics of non-cis-hetero-normativity and hopeful speculations about the future of humanity receive much of his attention.
In his work, he focuses more on the individual’s relationship with the world and with oneself than on the surrounding reality, which he approaches with a considerable degree of cynicism.
ACHIEVEMENTS
Minister of Culture and National Heritage’s Scholarship for the year 2022/2023
Chancellor’s Scholarship for the year 2022/2023
Chancellor’s Scholarship for the year 2021/2022
BA Diploma with Rector’s Distinction (2021)
Chancellor’s Scholarship for the year 2020/2021