KAROLINA HOWORKO

Born in Warsaw, Poland (1988), Karolina (FR/PL) has lived and worked internationally, with formative periods in Paris, Amsterdam, Mexico City, and currently Warsaw. She holds master’s degrees from the École Nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs (Paris), France and the École Nationale supérieure d’architecture de Paris-Malaquais, France including an exchange year at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) in Mexico. Her work has been presented in numerous international exhibitions and cultural events, including the Amsterdam Light Festival, and a range of theatre and film collaborations. She is the recipient ofawards and residencies like the Bettencourt Schueller Foundation’s “Innovation & Savoir-faire” scholarship. Her projects have been featured in Architectural Digest (France, Italy, Spain, Poland), Dwell (USA), Living Corriere, Never Too Small, Design Alive, and other global publications. Since 2019, she has directed her creative studio in Amsterdam, working across art and design.

Karolina is a multimedia artist whose practice spans painting, sculpture, light-based works, and immersive installations. Working with acrylics, machine-assisted drawing, large-scale sculptural forms, and experimental light environments, her practice explores the interplay between analog and digital processes. Drawing from architectural logic, parametric systems, geometry, and the poetics of imperfection, she creates works that investigate the relationships between structure and intuition, repetition and disruption, light and shadow. Her recent projects integrate industrial techniques, robotic drawing processes, and algorithmic patterns, while maintaining a distinct gestural and human presence at the core of each work.

Her work is engaging with themes including solitude and wellbeing, nature’s fragility, ideological disruption, memory, the tension between physical and digital space, and the subtle ruptures “cracks” that reveal the passage of time. Karolina practice seeks to capture the fleeting beauty of nature while simultaneously warning of the tragedy that threatens it, a quiet but persistent reminder of the looming ecological catastrophe we are constantly told is drawing nearer. She is fascinated by surreal visions of the future and the cyclical patterns that govern both natural and human-made systems. The motif of shedding, of skin, identity, or form, appears regularly in her work, often embodied by serpents, fissures, and objects caught in the moment of breaking. Recurring motifs include geometric configurations, nature, fluid forms inspired by ritual and cultural pattern-making, and layered compositions informed by her background in architecture. Across her multimedia practice, she investigates light as both material and metaphor, constructing installations that heighten the viewer’s sensory awareness through reflection, shadow, and immersive spatial sequencing.

For Karolina’s interior architecture, set design, spacial design please check www.studiohoka.com