He works with film, photography, installations and creates interdisciplinary projects. Born in 1980 in Bialystok, Poland. Lives and works in Warsaw, Poland, where he received his MFA from the Academy of Fine Arts in 2004.  His practice extends to magazines, artist books, fashion as well as curatorial concept projects. Publisher and editor-in-chief of DIK Fagazine.
For over a decade now, Karol Radziszewski has been consistently developing the heritage of the LGBT+ community with special emphasis on male and female artists from Central Europe. The Queer Archive Institute - QAI - he has set up is a one-man institution which documents achievements of artists from the countries of the former Eastern Bloc, who, because of the geopolitical factors, had had no chance to become known to general public. With his works shown in institutions all over the world, Radziszewski rewrites life stories, returning the right place in history to people who had been deprived of it.
Radziszewski’s recent solo and group exhibitions include the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (2023); Between Bridges, Berlin (2023); Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw (2022); Muzeum Sztuki, Lodz (2021); Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, Ljubljana (2020); CCA Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw (2019); Tokyo Photographic Art Museum (2019); VideoBrasil, São Paulo (2016); Wroclaw Contemporary Museum (2012). He has participated in several international biennales, including PERFORMA 13, New York; 7th Göteborg Biennial; 4th Prague Biennial and 14th Baltic Triennial. In 2021, The Power of Secrets book dedicated to Radziszewski’s archival practice was published by Sternberg Press.

Residencies:
2014 FUTURA Center for Contemporary Art, Prague
2011 Residency Unlimited, New York
2009 New Media Center_kuda.org, Novi Sad
2007 Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg
2006 PROGR, Bern

Awards and Honors:
2024 Grand Prix award of the 17th International Theater Festival Divine Comedy
2009 Paszport Polityki Award
2009 Minister of Culture and National Heritage Scholarship
2007 Deutsche Bank Foundation Prize finalist
2006 Minister of Culture Scholarship
2006 Samsung Art Master Prize
2002 Minister of Culture Scholarship

Institutional Collections:
Moderna Museet, Stockholm
Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw
Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw
Wroclaw Contemporary Museum, Wroclaw
Bunkier Sztuki Contemporary Art Gallery, Cracow
Arsenal Gallery, Bialystok
Museum of Art, Lodz
NOMUS, Gdańsk
Zachęta Collection, Szczecin
The ING Polish Art Foundation

SELECTED WORKS

Exhibitions

SOLO

2025
Afternoon of a Faun, Voloshyn Gallery, Miami

2024
Gender Wars, St Anthony's College, Oxford University, Oxford
Filo, City Art Centre, Edinburg
Nobody's Gonna Know, Svetova 1, Prague
Ostreport, Austrian Cultural Forum, Warsaw
Filo, Auto Italia, London
2023
Remembering Futures, MoCa Skopje
Karol Radziszewski, Sebastian im Traum, in the frame of Sommerakademie, Georg Trakl Haus, Salzburg
One Day This Kid..., Between Bridges, Berlin
2022
Myths, BWA Warszawa, Warsaw
2021
Mon chéri Soviétique, Studio Gallery BWA, Wrocław
2020
Hyacinth, BWA Warszawa, Warsaw
Ménage á Deux, Galeria Labirynt, Lublin 
Poczet, Kunst(Zeug)Haus, Rapperswil
QAI/CEE, Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, Ljubljana
2019
Power of Secrets, CCA Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw
QAI/CEE, The Multimedia Cultural Centre, Split
Queer Archives Institute, Schwules Museum / HAU, Berlin
2018
QAI/CEE, HELLERAU - European Centre for the Arts, Hellerau/Dresden
2017
QAI/CO, Fundación Gilberto Alzate Avendaño, Bogota
QAI/CEE, Centrala, Birmingham
2016
Ali, BWA Warszawa, Warsaw
Queer Archives Institute, Videobrasil, Sao Paulo
2015
Art in America, Galeria Manhattan, Łódź
Tomorrow will be different, (with Josef Rabara), Fotograf Gallery, Prague
2014
In the Shadow of the Flame, BWA Warszawa, Warsaw
The Prince and Queens. Ciało jako archiwum, CSW, Toruń
America Is Not Ready For This, MOCAK, Cracow
Pozdrowienia z Ameryki!, CCA Łaźnia, Gdańsk
America Is Not Ready For This, FUTURA Center for Contemporary Art, Prague
2012
America Is Not Ready For This, Contemporary Museum, Wrocław
LOVE, Raster, Warsaw
DIK. Archiwum, Kolonie, Warsaw
Invitation, Starter, Warsaw
2011
Heal The World, Museum of Art, Łódź
Body of Work, Splatterpool Artspace, New York
Backstage, Bunkier Sztuki, Cracow
2010
Ćwiczenia na równowagę, Galeria Arsenał, Białystok
2009
Siusiu w torcik, Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw (curator)
Ready 2 Die, video-performance, Museum of Art, Łódź
Fag Fighters in Riga, Supernova Gallery, Ryga
MARIOS DIK, CCA Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw
2008
Oh!, Galeria Arsenał, Białystok
Pissing Chapel/DIK Fagazine, White Cubicle Toilet Gallery, London
2007
Man, it must be great, Hamidrasha Gallery, Tel Aviv
Zawsze chciałem, CCA Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw
Struktura faktu artystycznego, BWA Gallery, Zielona Góra
2005
Pedały, private apartments, Warsaw
Biuro, Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw

GROUP

2025
The Lumberman. Stories of Masculinity, Centrum Kultury ZAMEK, Poznań 
Self-Portraits, Muzeum Narodowe, Warsaw
Mine Eyes Bees Deceive, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw
The Cynics Republic – Plac Defilad, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw
Refugees Welcome, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw
The Impermanent. Four Takes on The Collection, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw

2024
The Venice Theater Biennale, Venice
Multiple Realities: Experimental Art in the Eastern Bloc, 1960s–1980s, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix

2023
Multiple Realities: Experimental Art in the Eastern Bloc, 1960s–1980s, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis

2022
To Be Seen, Queer Lives. 1900-1950, Munich Documentation Center, Munich
Embrace Platform, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe
Fotoklub. Współczesna i dawna fotografia z polskich kolekcji prywatnych, State Gallery of Art, Sopot
Every Moment Counts, Henie Onstad Kunstenter, Hovikodden

2021
Shadows Conceal the Earth, BWA Warszawa, Warsaw
The Night Will Drive a Heart, Contemporary Museum, Wrocław
11th edition of MOMENTUM Biennale House of Commons, Moss
Collection Co-selection, Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw
You’ll Never Walk Alone, Galeria Labirynt, Lublin 
Baltic Triennial 14: The Endless Frontier, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius
Instant Archives. Instant and Instax in Poland, National Museum, Gdansk
In the beginning was the deed!, Arsenal Gallery, Bialystok 
arcHIV. A Search for Traces, Schwules Museum, Berlin
2020
W czarodziejską burzę włożę własną duszę, BWA Warszawa, Warsaw
Biennale Matter of Art, Prague Market, Prague
Theft and Destruction, Arsenal Gallery, Białystok 
2019
Kolarz, Rondo Sztuki, Katowice
Trzy plagi, Galeria Labirynt, Lublin
Her Own Way, TOP Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Tokio
Artyści polscy w kolekcji Bunkra sztuki, Bunkier Sztuki, Cracow
BODY WORKS, State Gallery of Art, Sopot
Pałac sztuki. Młode malastwo polskie, National Museum, Gdańsk
We will not change our show, The Brno House of Arts, Brno
Krzyszfof Garbaczewski. Badania terenow, Galeria Arsenał, Białystok
2018
Things to learn from Facebook, Part of the 3rd Tbilisi International Triennial - Tbilisi
to Michael, In the frame of JERK OFF 2018 festival DOC!, Paris
Praktyki okupacji dzieła, Contemporary Museum, Wrocław
Jutro będzie wojna?, Museum of Modern Art Open’er Festival
Faith Love Hope, Kunsthaus Graz
Gypsyland, In a frame of the 1st Roma Biennale, Maxim Gorki Theater, Berlin
Plusy i minusy, Galeria Arsenał, Białystok
Dzikość serca, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw
2017
Przechwałki i pogróżki, TRAFO, Szczecin
Forms of Resistance, Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast
It Won’t Be Long Now, Comrades!, Framer Framed, Amsterdam
Art Work: Contemporary Artists from Ukraine and Poland, Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kiev
Find Art, Museum of Art, Łódź
Amazing Perplexities, Lavra City Gallery, Kiev
Everything is Getting Better. Unknown Knowns of Polish (Post)Colonialism, Cavvy Contemporary, Berlin
Syrena herbem twym zwodnicza, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw
Późna polskość, CCA Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw
Dynamika pogorszeń, BWA Warszawa, Warsaw
2016
The Morality Reflex, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius
Common Affairs, Deutsche Bank KunstHalle, Berlin
Why are we afraid of sunsets?, Gdanska Galeria Miejska, Gdańsk
QAI/BY, Y Gallery, Minsk
Sui Generis, Dello Scompiglio
Masters Peasants Peasants Masters, BWA Sokół Gallery, Nowy Sącz
The Wild West. A History of Wroclaw’s Avant-Garde, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb
Our Heart Is a Foreign Country, Studio Gallery, Budapest
2015
IV Odessa Biennale of Contemporary Art, Odessa
Test of Spirit, CCA Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw
Someone will remember us in the future, National Academy of Art, Sofia
Imagined Communities, Personal Imaginations, Budapest Gallery, Budapest
AIDS: Based on a true Story, Deutsches Hygiene-Museum, Dresden
Slash: In Between the Normative and the Fantasy, kim? Contemporary Art Centre, Riga
Kanibalizm? O zawłaszczeniach w sztuce, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw
Midnight Show III. Taken, Design BWA, Wrocław
Działania Na Głowę. Polska Sztuka Dzisiaj, Kunsthalle, Bratislava
2014
Diabły!, Galeria Biała, Lublin
Private Nationalism, Kunsthalle, Kosice
Crimestory, CSW Znaki Czasu, Toruń
Private Nationalism, Divus, Praha
The Emperor's New Apparel, Karlin Studios, Prague
2013
PERFORMA 13, New York
Learning from Warsaw, Museum Bärengasse, Zurich
Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art, Goteborg
8. Biennale Fotografii, Poznań
Niezbezpieczne związki, CCA Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw
15. Biennale Sztuki Mediów WRO, Wrocław
Mum, I just really need to focus on my art right now, Galeria Arsenał, Poznań
The Emperor's New Apparel, Trafo Gallery, Budapest
Enchanting Forms, IDEAS 40203, Louisville, Kentucky
I Salute the Potter’s Clay, Czarna Gallery, Warsaw
2012
Krzyk mody, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw
Rosa Arbeit auf goldender Strasse, xhibit Gallery, Vienna
Dziesięć procent bieli, CCA Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw
Rysunek wraca w wielkim stylu, Galeria Arsenał, Białystok
4. Artboom Festiwal, Cracow
Happy Birthday Mr. Fluxus, "Zamek" Centrum Kultury Zamek, Poznań
2011
Spectrum. From the Zacheta Video Collection, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna
Thymós. Sztuka gniewu 1900 – 2011, CSW Znaki Czasu, Toruń
14. Biennale Sztuki Mediów WRO, Wrocław
Desire is WAR, The Contemporary Art Gallery of The National Brukenthal Museum, Sibiu
2010
Obraz kontrolny, Museum of Art, Lódź
Ars Homo Erotica, National Museum, Warsaw
Residency Culture, Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina, Nowy Sad
Working Title, CCA Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw
Animal Manifesto, Raster, Warsaw
Fancy Success, Bunkier Sztuki, Cracow
Self Publish, Be Happy, The Photographers’ Gallery, London
2009
Prague Biennale 4, Karlin Hall, Prague
Workers Leaving the Workplace, Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Lipsk
New York Photo Festival, DUMBO, New York
Vogue, CCA Łaźnia, Gdańsk
Smell it!, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna
Live Archive (The Generational: Younger Than Jesus), New Museum, New York
2008
The Young and Evil, tank.tv / Tate Modern, London
Just Different!, Cobra Museum, Amsterdam
Inne miasto, inne życie, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw
Red eye effect. Polish photography of the 21st century, CCA Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw
Queer Zines, New York Art Book Fair, New York
TIT FOR TAT, < rotor >, Graz
Bat-Yam International Biennale of Landscape Urbanism, (szu szu), Bat-Yam
Under the Skin: New Video from Poland, New Museum, New York
2007
Consequences and Proposals, Biennale of Young Artists, Talin
Kolekcja sztuki XX I XXI wieku. Siła Formalizmu, Museum of Art, Lódź
Views 2007, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw
Dziedzictwo betonu. Od Le Corbusiera do blokersów, CCA Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw
5. Biennale Fotografii, Galeria Arsenał, Poznań
2006
Poza, Real Art Ways, Hartford
MEGAZINES, Visionaire Gallery, New York
Miłość i demokracja, CSW Łaźnia, Gdańsk
Samsung Art Master, CCA Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw
2004
Powinność i bunt, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw
Ostatnie dni Laboratorium, CCA Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw
Nova Polska 70-80, (szu szu), Maison Folie de Moulins, Lille
Drang nach West(end), compact/space, Berlin

Film Festivals:

10. PLANETE+ DOC Film Festival, Warsaw
Kinomuzeum, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw
12. Festiwal Filmowy T-Mobile Nowe Horyzonty, Wrocław
10. Pink Screens Film Festival, Brussels
57. International Short Films Festival, Oberhausen

Publications

Selected Monographic Publications:

The Power Of Secrets, Published by Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, 2021

Heal The World (Folder, 8p.), Published by Muzeum Sztuki / ms2, Lodz, 2011

Backstage (Catalogue, 130p.), Published by Bunkier Sztuki Contemporary Art Gallery, Krakow, 2011

To Pee in a Bun (Folder, 8p.), Published by Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, 2009

MARIOS DIK (Artist's Book, 48p., edition 300), Published by Karol Radziszewski, Warsaw, 2009

MARIOS DIK (Catalogue, 96p., edition 1000), Published by Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, 2009

Oh! (Catalogue, 36p., edition 500), Published by Arsenal Gallery, Bialystok, Poland, 2008

The Structure of an Artistic Fact (Catalogue, 46p.), Published by BWA Gallery, Zielona Gora, 2007

I Always Wanted (Catalogue, 85p.), Published by Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, 2007

Selected Catalogues & Books:

Collection in Action NOMUS, Gdańsk, 2022

Abstract Sex. We don’t hale ani clothes, only equipment Artissima, Torino, 2019

Okamura, Keiko (Ed.) Her Own Way Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Tokyo, 2019

Wszyscy Jesteśmy Fotografami vol. 1 Fundacja Powiększenie, Warsaw, 2020

Historie filmu awangardowego. Od dadaizmu do postinternetu Fundacja Okonakino, Ha!art, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, 2020

Pilcher, Alex (Ed.) A Queer Little History of Art Tate Enterprises Ltd., London, 2017

Common Affairs Deutsche Bank AG, Frankfurt, Zachęta-National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, 2016

The Prince and Queens. Ciało jako archiwum Centre of Contemporary Art, Toruń, Poland, 2014

Zygmunt, Michał (Ed.) Lata Walk Ulicznych Wydawnictwo Krytyki Politycznej, Warsaw, 2010

Exhibition Catalogue for Drawing is coming back in a big way Arsenal Gallery, Bialystok, 2012

Artysta - kurator - instytucja - odbiorca Arsenal City Art Gallery, Poznan, 2012

Pijarski, Krzysztof (Ed.) The Archive as a Project. Fundacja Archeologia Fotografii, Warsaw, 2011

Ceschel, Bruno (Ed.) Self Publish, Be Naughty. SP,BH, London, 2011

Critical Crafting Circle (Hg.) Craftista! Handarbeit als Aktivismus. Ventil Verlag, 2011

Bojana Pejić (Ed.) Gender Check: A Reader – Art and Theory in Eastern Europe. Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig, Koln, 2010

Bazylko and Masiewicz (Eds.) 77 dziel sztuki z historią. Wydawnictwo 40 000 Malarzy & Fundacja Bęc Zmiana, Warsaw, 2010

Mazur, Adam. Historie fotografii w Polsce 1839–2009. Fundacja Sztuk Wizualnych, Krakow, 2009

Exhibition Catalogue for Ars Homo Erotica. The National Museum in Warsaw, Warsaw, 2010

Losowsky, Koedinger and Leslie (Eds.) We Make Magazines: Inside the Independents. Die Gestalten Verlag, 2009

Exhibition Catalogue for Vogue, Laznia - Centre for Contemporary Art, Gdansk, 2009

Exhibition Catalogue for Just Different!, Cobra Museum, Amsterdam/Amstelveen, 2008

Bazylko and Masiewicz (Eds.) Przewodnik kolekcjonera sztuki najnowszej. Korporacja Ha!art, Fundacja Bęc Zmiana, Krakow-Warsaw, 2008

Exhibition Catalogue for Another City, Another Life, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, 2008

Exhibition Catalogue for Queer Zines. Philip Aarons and AA Bronson (Eds.) Printed Matter, Inc.. New York, 2008

Exhibition Catalogue for Views 2007. Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, 2007

Exhibition Catalogue for Poza, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT, 2006

Tekstylia bis. Słownik młodej polskiej kultury. Korporacja Ha!art, Kraków, 2006

Dietmar Schwärzler (Ed.) Smell it! Vienna, 2009

Marecki, Piotr (Ed.) Pospolite ruszenie. Czasopisma kulturalno-literackie w Polsce po 1989 roku. Korporacja Ha!art, Krakow, 2005