Interdisciplinary artist, architect, researcher, and educator with many years of international professional and academic experience across Malaysia, Singapore, Austria, and Poland. Currently serving as Senior Lecturer and Researcher at the Faculty of Creative Multimedia, Multimedia University, Malaysia. My professional practice integrates Visual Arts, Professional Architectural Experience and Teaching. Besides architecture, I specialize in experimental artistic installations, spatial perception, painting, public exhibitions, and design.
My research explores the relationship between art, architecture, and human-centered spatial experiences. I actively collaborate with researchers, scientists, museums and international institutions in projects combining visual arts with science.
QUALIFICATIONS
PhD in Visual Arts
Master of Science in Architecture
(Gdańsk University of Technology, Poland, Department of Architecture and Urban Planning)
Professional Architecture Qualifications:
Unlimited Construction Licence in Architecture
Member of National Chamber of Polish Architects
Qualification No. SW-0263 /Equivalent to RIBA Part III
EXHIBITIONS & MEDIA
- Solo International Painting Exhibition “Where the Moon Smiles” at The Palace of Fine Art in Cracow, Poland, November, December 2024.
The exhibition is part of a planned multi-year project and represents its second phase, presented two years after the inaugural edition in 2021.
The exhibition is organized by the non-profit National organization “Krakow Society of Friends of Fine Arts” which was established in Cracow in 1854 focused on the presentation of works by Polish artists and representatives of European Art Kraków Society of Friends of Fine Arts – Wikipedia
- International INVENT-X 2nd Creative Exhibition 2025, E-Gallery, Cyberjaya
“SPACE: Emotion, Expression and Identity”. International art and creativity curatorial exhibition bringing together artists from Asia, the Middle East and Europe, presenting projects that integrate art, technology, and research. Curator / Exhibition Director: Prof. Vimala Perumal.
E-Gallery, ANTHROPOCENE: THE AGE WE MADE. Awarded the INVENTX 2025 Gold Medal in the Creativity Category.
- INVENT-X 2nd Creative Exhibition 2024,
Awarded the INVENTX 2024 Gold Medal in the Creativity Category for artworks: THE SAND DWELLER, THE NIGHTSCAPE and MALAYSIAN LANDSCAPE.
- Solo Exhibition of collection of paintings “Malaysian Landscape” at the Gallery Oliwa Town Hall of Culture in Gdansk, Poland.
The exhibition time: January 4th to January 30th,2024 curated by Andrzej Stelmasiewicz.
- Solo Painting Exhibition of collection of paintings “Secrets of the Stars, what links Science and Art” at the Museum of Gdańsk University UNIVERSITY OF GDAŃSK MUSEUM (MUG) 2023.
The exhibition Secrets of the Stars featured paintings by Dr. Karolina Wojnowska-Paterek and was held and organised by the University of Gdańsk and the University of Gdańsk Museum (MUG), with Marta Szaszkiewicz and Magdalena Jaszcza serving as curators.
- Retrospective Exhibition at the public gallery Bydgoszcz Center for Fine Arts (BCS) in Poland (14 August – 9 September 2022)
Nowa Planeta – Bydgoszcz Art Centre
- “The Wonderings of light” artistic installation.
“The Wonderings of Light” is a kinetic art installation, which aims at popularization of basic physical problems and experiments. Art provides important and powerful means in the development of abstract thinking, which in turn makes people able to better understand reality around us. This art & science exhibition encourages visitors to broaden their knowledge of quantum physics.
It was founded by the Foundational Questions Institute (Templeton Foundation) in the US and has been presented in a few Science Centres and public museums. I have developed the project working at Gdańsk University.
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It debuted on February 19-th, 2022 as a part of the program of Polish Science Day event (Polish Science Day – NAWA) in Experyment Science Museum in Gdynia, Poland . Experyment in Gdynia is one of the top polish Science Museums, features interactive exhibitions, provides space for creative experimentation and temporary exhibitions Centrum Nauki Experyment – experyment.
Presentation of the “Wonders of light” installation was transmitted on public television and news. Another exhibition of “The Wonders of light” project took place on the occasion of World Quantum Day on April 14th World Quantum Day, April 14th, 2022 – ICTQT (ug.edu.pl)
In August 2022 the installation was exhibited at the public gallery Bydgoszcz Center for Fine Arts (BCS) in Poland.
● Solo Painting Exhibition “The Imperfect Beauty of Asian Cities” (5–31 August 2021) at The Palace of Fine Arts in Krakow, Poland. The exhibition is the inaugural edition of a planned multi-year project.
This exhibition was the first organized after two years of COVID-19 lockdowns and marked the first scheduled installment within an ongoing curatorial programme. Following a prolonged period of closed borders and restricted international travel, it symbolically celebrating renewed mobility, cultural exchange, and artistic dialogue after the isolation of the pandemic.
The exhibition was held by invitation and organized by the non-profit national organization Krakow Society of Friends of Fine Arts, established in Krakow in 1854, dedicated to presenting works by Polish artists and representatives of European art.
Magical places in Karolina Paterek’s paintings at the Palace of Art
- Sculpture “From The Anthropocene” was presented on the nationwide curated exhibition in Toruń Wozownia Art Gallery (02 July – 31 August 2021). Curator: Professor Katarzyna Adaszewska.
- Solo Exhibition of artistic installation “A New Planet”organized by the Baltic Sea Cultural Centre, at the Old City Hall Museum in Gdańsk in March 2020.
- Imperfect Beauty of Asian Cities. Exhibition at Affordable Art Fair 2019 in Singapore, 21- 23 November 2019
- Doctoral Painting Exhibition, “Between Micro and Macroworld”, University of Humanities and Science Gallery in Kielce, Poland July 2017
- Exhibition “Light Colour and Space” – Ein Traum mit Farbe, Licht, Fotografie und Klang, Museum Döbling in Vienna (2007). Artistic Installation and Sculpture, Karolina Wojnowska-Paterek
- Exhibition The second skin – Light, color and space Cottbus City Hall, Brandenburg University of Technology, Germany, 2006
- Artist’s film “Discovering that dead magnetized cockroaches behave differently than living magnetized cockroaches” featured during the 29th Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony at Harvard University (September 2019)
MEDIA & INVITED TALKS
- Karolina Paterek “The dialogue between architecture and painting”. In-depth artist interview published in Post Scriptum, Independent Magazine of Literature and the Arts
ISSN 2633-1292. Post Scriptum. The interview is conducted by a Polish writer Jaroslaw Prusinski. https://issuu.com/post.scriptum/docs/post_scriptum_1_2022_15_
- Radio podcast guest, hosted by Jolanta Drużyńska, a distinguished Polish writer, journalist, and author of acclaimed books and documentary reportages.
Magiczne miejsca na obrazach Karoliny Paterek w Pałacu Sztuki
Malarstwo z zachwytu Karoliny Wojnowskiej-Paterek w Pałacu Sztuki
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- Invited Talk “Information Flows in the Form of Art” at the international conference The Public space of Tomorrow organized by ISOCARP International Society of City and Regional Planners, Gdansk, Poland, 05 –07 December 2019.
- “The Challenge of Collaborative Creation: The Crisis of Ethical Responsibility and Authorship in Multimedia Art and Academia in the Age of Digitalization and Artificial Intelligence. Research talk at ICCM 2025 Digital Futures International Congress, DIFCON 2025, 21–23 July 2025
- Conference talk “Designing for People, not for Consumers” Karolina Wojnowska Paterek. The 11th Annual International Conference on Architecture, Athens, Greece, 5–8 July 2021 Abstract: ARC2021-0227.pdf
- Learning by Art at The old Town Hall Museum, Gdańsk, March 2020 . I was conducting a series of public lectures entitled “Learning by Art” presented by the Museum The old Tow Hall in March 2020, which were in parallel to my Solo Exhibition of artistic installation in the Museum “A New Planet” organized by the Baltic Sea Cultural Centre, at the Old City Hall in Gdańsk in March 2020.
- “Artificial Intelligence in the Process of Creating Texts and Images in Scientific Work” Research Talk. Authors: Karolina Wojnowska Paterek, Adriana Bartnik-Malek . International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Legal Procedures organized by the Polish Academy of Science in Rome, Italy, 24–28 February 2025
- “AI as a Tool in the Creative Process”. The growing crisis of ethical accountability in the context of digital transformation” Research Talk, authors: Karolina Wojnowska Paterek, Adriana Bartnik-Malek . 9th International Scientific Conference Legal Security of Democratic States and Technological Progress 23–25 23-25 October 2025, Lublin, Polish Academy of Science.
- Artist Talk at the “RE-IGNITE 2025 Creative Forum. MMU, Malaysia. Programm aimed at fostering creative dialogue, academic exchange, and postgraduate development.
Selected Architectural Projects.
Awarded with a European Union Grant for developing Start-up I have opened an architectural design studio. One of my completed projects was International Diagnostic Centre, medical clinic with laboratories in Lublin, Poland, for international pharmaceutical company, (project,/construction: 2013 – 2016, total area of the building: 2000 sqm)
Completed architectural projects made in teams (years 2006 – 2013)
- Hilton Hotel, Bangalore, India, (project,/construction: 2011 – 2013), Andy Fisher Workshop, architect
- Baby GHotel, Penang, Malaysia 2011, K2LD Architects, position: architect
- Product design including solutions for PHILIPS retail displays and products. Designer of new design concepts for retail spaces including: Azimuth, MBS shopping mall, Unique, MBS in Singapore, and Raffles Centre, Singapore (years 2009 – 2011) OP3 International Pte Ltd, Singapore, Product Designer
- Hotel Andel’s in Manufaktura, Lodz, Poland, with Project team: OP-Architekten, position: architect, (project/construction: 2007 – 2009). Awards: European Hotel Design Awards, London. Architecture of the Year, Best conversion of an existing building to hotel 2009.
- Atelier Residence building including 7000 sqm of office area and 255 units for residential use. Total area: 44 000 sqm. Mixed use development office/residential building in Warsaw, Poland (project/construction 2007 – 2009) project team: OP-Architekten, position: architect. CIJ Awards 2009 for Best Residential Development, Investment of the year 2008 – The prize of ministry of infrastructure.
- Architectural Assistant at the architecture practice of Professor W. Reinberg Vienna, Austria, 2006/2007. Ecological Architecture, Passive Solar House Design – Architectural Assistant,
- Studioproject WM Gdańsk, Poland Energy Management Centre in Gdansk, office building (project/construction 2005 – 2006) investor: Energa. S.A. Architectural Assistant
Publications & Academic Activities
- Wojnowska Paterek, K., & Bartnik-Malek, A. (2025). The Challenge of Collaborative Creation: The Crisis of Ethical Responsibility and Authorship in Multimedia Art and Academia in the Age of Digitalization and Artificial Intelligence. In R. El Khoury (Ed.), Leveraging AI and Big Data for Business Innovation (Studies in Big Data, Vol. 192, Chapter 44). Scopus-indexed book chapter. Springer Nature. ISBN 978-3-032-20411-0.
- “Sustainaissance. Emotion, Expression, Identity.” Sustainaissance Catalogue, co-author, pages 52, 53 , eISBN: 978-629-7709-18-5, ISBN 9786297709178. Published by MMU Press
- “Secrets of the Stars: What Links Science and Art? Exhibition of paintings by Karolina Wojnowska-Paterek” .The publication explores interdisciplinary relationships between art, astronomy, physics, perception, and creativity. Chapters and authors: Sekrety_katalog-spis-tresci.pdf . Published by Gdańsk University Press | 2023 . ISBN: 978-83-8206-554-1 editor: Prof. Marcin Wieśniak
- Book Chapter (Co-author): Educational Role of Regenerative Public Spaces. In H. Obracht-Prondzyńska & M. Draheim (Eds.), The Public Spaces of Tomorrow. International Society of City and Regional Planners (ISOCARP), 2022. ISBN: 978-83-65826-74-9. MSRL Book 2022 – ISOCARP
Mentor in the MSRL (Mentor & Student Research Lab) program at Gdansk University of Technology. 05 December 2019 – March 2020 “The Public Spaces of Tomorrow” (05 December 2019 – March 2020). The program was organized by the Faculty of Architecture at Gdansk University of Technology and the International Society of City and Regional Planners (ISOCARP). Together with students, I was working on research related to the role of regenerative public spaces in raising environmental awareness. The outcome of our research is published as a book. Home | MSRL.
- “Designing for People, not for Consumers” Karolina Wojnowska Paterek . Conference paper published in peer-reviewed international conference proceedings (ATINER), Athens Institute for Education and Research, ISBN: 978-960-598-432-8.
- Laureat of TM Scholarly Book Grant 2026