9:30 AM - 10:00 AM
#Welcome
26.03.2022
The conference will be hosted by Zuzanna Lewandowska, the VP and CEO of Wysokie Obcasy Foundation. Zuzanna holds degrees at three different universities (including the University of Cambridge) and is a specialist in in consulting, media, and innovation management.
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She will begin the event by holding 30 seconds of silence to honour and pay respects to those directly affected by the ongoing crisis in Ukraine. Her introduction will be followed by a speech delivered by Irina Tymczyszyn – the Co-Founder and the Managing Director of the Ukrainian-British City Club – in which she will draw from her professional experiences to address the situation in Ukraine.
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The conference will be hosted by Zuzanna Lewandowska, the VP and CEO of Wysokie Obcasy Foundation. Zuzanna holds degrees at three different universities (including the University of Cambridge) and is a specialist in in consulting, media, and innovation management.
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She will begin the event by holding 30 seconds of silence to honour and pay respects to those directly affected by the ongoing crisis in Ukraine. Her introduction will be followed by a speech delivered by Irina Tymczyszyn – the Co-Founder and the Managing Director of the Ukrainian-British City Club – in which she will draw from her professional experiences to address the situation in Ukraine.
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Zuzanna Lewandowska
VP and CEO of Wysokie Obcasy Foundation
Zuzanna Lewandowska
VP and CEO of Wysokie Obcasy Foundation
26.03.2022
#Welcome
Opening Ceremony
Zuzanna is a social entrepreneur, founder and a non-for-profit executive with international professional experience in consulting, media, NGO, change and innovation management gained in Poland, the UK, USA and France. She currently is the VP and CEO of Wysokie Obcasy Foundation, a leading Polish NGO associated with the largest Polish legacy newspaper, Gazeta Wyborcza. She holds degrees from the University of Cambridge, Lancaster University and Warsaw University, and is an alumna of the Aspen Institute CE, Leadership Academy for Poland, and the Swedish Institute Sustainability Management fellowship programs.
26.03.2022
Opening Ceremony
#Welcome
Zuzanna Lewandowska
VP and CEO of Wysokie Obcasy Foundation
Zuzanna is a social entrepreneur, founder and a non-for-profit executive with international professional experience in consulting, media, NGO, change and innovation management gained in Poland, the UK, USA and France. She currently is the VP and CEO of Wysokie Obcasy Foundation, a leading Polish NGO associated with the largest Polish legacy newspaper, Gazeta Wyborcza. She holds degrees from the University of Cambridge, Lancaster University and Warsaw University, and is an alumna of the Aspen Institute CE, Leadership Academy for Poland, and the Swedish Institute Sustainability Management fellowship programs.
Irina Tymczyszyn
Co-Founder and the Managing Director of the Ukrainian-British City Club
Irina Tymczyszyn
Co-Founder and the Managing Director of the Ukrainian-British City Club
26.03.2022
#Welcome
Opening Ceremony
Irina Tymczyszyn FCIArb is an English lawyer and an international arbitration specialist. Over the last 20 years, Irina has acted as counsel and arbitrator in multiple international commercial arbitration proceedings seated around the world. She has considerable experience in multi-jurisdictional cross-border disputes. Irina specialises in investment and post-M&A disputes, shareholders’ disputes (often involving allegations of fraud), commodity trading, construction, energy and natural resources disputes.
26.03.2022
Opening Ceremony
#Welcome
Irina Tymczyszyn
Co-Founder and the Managing Director of the Ukrainian-British City Club
Irina Tymczyszyn FCIArb is an English lawyer and an international arbitration specialist. Over the last 20 years, Irina has acted as counsel and arbitrator in multiple international commercial arbitration proceedings seated around the world. She has considerable experience in multi-jurisdictional cross-border disputes. Irina specialises in investment and post-M&A disputes, shareholders’ disputes (often involving allegations of fraud), commodity trading, construction, energy and natural resources disputes.
10:00 AM - 11:20 AM
#Business
26.03.2022
The Business Panel will focus on the viability of various approaches to the transition towards low-carbon economies.
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As the impact of climate change affects our daily lives more significantly, the sustainability of industrial practices come into question more frequently. The spotlight on the international stage is shifting towards the green sector with more research and development, and governmental support than ever before. However, the green shift of recent years now acts to counterbalance the deepening global energy crisis, raising interesting questions. ‘Is sustainability in business merely a trend that will die out, or is it a paradigm shift? How do we make green business profitable and competitive? What is the best way to promote it?
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The Business Panel will focus on the viability of various approaches to the transition towards low-carbon economies.
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As the impact of climate change affects our daily lives more significantly, the sustainability of industrial practices come into question more frequently. The spotlight on the international stage is shifting towards the green sector with more research and development, and governmental support than ever before. However, the green shift of recent years now acts to counterbalance the deepening global energy crisis, raising interesting questions. ‘Is sustainability in business merely a trend that will die out, or is it a paradigm shift? How do we make green business profitable and competitive? What is the best way to promote it?
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Sally Bridgeland
Chair of Impax Asset Management
Sally Bridgeland
Chair of Impax Asset Management
26.03.2022
#Business
Green Business: The Transition to Low-Carbon Economies
Sally is Chair at Impax Asset Management Group plc, is a non-executive director at insurers Royal London, Pension Insurance Corporation and Royal & Sun Alliance Insurance, and at Local Pensions Partnership (LPP) Limited, where she chairs its regulated investment company. Her non-executive portfolio has included roles at the Nuclear Liabilities Fund, NEST Corporation and the Lloyds Bank pension schemes. She was CEO of the BP Pension Scheme in the interesting years of 2007-14 after twenty years with Aon Hewitt working as a pensions consultant and in investment research and innovation.
26.03.2022
Green Business: The Transition to Low-Carbon Economies
#Business
Sally Bridgeland
Chair of Impax Asset Management
Sally is Chair at Impax Asset Management Group plc, is a non-executive director at insurers Royal London, Pension Insurance Corporation and Royal & Sun Alliance Insurance, and at Local Pensions Partnership (LPP) Limited, where she chairs its regulated investment company. Her non-executive portfolio has included roles at the Nuclear Liabilities Fund, NEST Corporation and the Lloyds Bank pension schemes. She was CEO of the BP Pension Scheme in the interesting years of 2007-14 after twenty years with Aon Hewitt working as a pensions consultant and in investment research and innovation.
Sir Vince Cable
Former Secretary of State for Business Innovation and Skills, Leader of the Liberal Democrats 2017-2019
Sir Vince Cable
Former Secretary of State for Business Innovation and Skills, Leader of the Liberal Democrats 2017-2019
26.03.2022
#Business
Green Business: The Transition to Low-Carbon Economies
Sir Vince Cable was the Secretary of State for Business Innovation and Skills and the President of the Board of Trade from 2010 to 2015. He was a Member of Parliament for Twickenham (1997-2015, 2017-2019) and the leader of the Liberal Democrats between 2017 and 2019. Prior to his political career in the UK, Vince worked as a treasury finance officer for the Kenyan Government, a special advisor on economic affairs for the Commonwealth Secretary-General, as well as the deputy director of the Overseas Development Institute. In the 1990’s he worked for Shell International, becoming its Chief Economist in 1995. Currently, Sir Vince is a trustee in the HCT group and a visiting professor at LSE. Moreover, he is a correspondent for several newspapers, including The Independent and Bloomberg.
26.03.2022
Green Business: The Transition to Low-Carbon Economies
#Business
Sir Vince Cable
Former Secretary of State for Business Innovation and Skills, Leader of the Liberal Democrats 2017-2019
Sir Vince Cable was the Secretary of State for Business Innovation and Skills and the President of the Board of Trade from 2010 to 2015. He was a Member of Parliament for Twickenham (1997-2015, 2017-2019) and the leader of the Liberal Democrats between 2017 and 2019. Prior to his political career in the UK, Vince worked as a treasury finance officer for the Kenyan Government, a special advisor on economic affairs for the Commonwealth Secretary-General, as well as the deputy director of the Overseas Development Institute. In the 1990’s he worked for Shell International, becoming its Chief Economist in 1995. Currently, Sir Vince is a trustee in the HCT group and a visiting professor at LSE. Moreover, he is a correspondent for several newspapers, including The Independent and Bloomberg.
Artur Radziwiłł
Director of Country Economics and Policy at EBRD
Artur Radziwiłł
Director of Country Economics and Policy at EBRD
26.03.2022
#Business
Green Business: The Transition to Low-Carbon Economies
Artur Radziwiłł is the Director of Country Economics and Policy at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. Prior to joining the EBRD, he was Deputy Minister of Finance in Poland. He started his career at the Centre for Social and Economic Research (CASE), where he progressed to become Vice-President. He then joined McKinsey, where he served both public and private sector clients globally. Before his appointment to the Polish Government, he spent 5 years at the OECD studying and promoting growth-enhancing reforms.
26.03.2022
Green Business: The Transition to Low-Carbon Economies
#Business
Artur Radziwiłł
Director of Country Economics and Policy at EBRD
Artur Radziwiłł is the Director of Country Economics and Policy at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. Prior to joining the EBRD, he was Deputy Minister of Finance in Poland. He started his career at the Centre for Social and Economic Research (CASE), where he progressed to become Vice-President. He then joined McKinsey, where he served both public and private sector clients globally. Before his appointment to the Polish Government, he spent 5 years at the OECD studying and promoting growth-enhancing reforms.
Rafał Libera
Group Integration Manager at Acteon Group
Rafał Libera
Group Integration Manager at Acteon Group
26.03.2022
#Business
Green Business: The Transition to Low-Carbon Economies
Rafał is the Group Integration Manager at Acteon Group, a global marine energy and infrastructure services provider. At Acteon, we help our clients design, construct and operate complex offshore renewable projects. Rafał is responsible for developing and implementing business strategies that enable us to offer innovative solutions that respond to the needs of the offshore wind sector. Prior to Acteon, he worked at a Magic Circle law firm in London advising clients on the structuring and financing of large scale power and infrastructure projects as well as on UK & EU energy regulation. Rafal is an energy & infrastructure expert at the Sobieski Institute, one of Poland’s most respected think tanks. He is also a Co-founder and Chair of the Transatlantic Future Leaders Forum (TFLF), a foundation that organizes a unique program of internships and thought-leadership meetings for Polish students in Washington D.C. and London. In addition, Rafał is the President of Polish City Club, an organisation for professionals of Polish descent which aims to build a well-connected and successful Polish diaspora in the UK.
26.03.2022
Green Business: The Transition to Low-Carbon Economies
#Business
Rafał Libera
Group Integration Manager at Acteon Group
Rafał is the Group Integration Manager at Acteon Group, a global marine energy and infrastructure services provider. At Acteon, we help our clients design, construct and operate complex offshore renewable projects. Rafał is responsible for developing and implementing business strategies that enable us to offer innovative solutions that respond to the needs of the offshore wind sector. Prior to Acteon, he worked at a Magic Circle law firm in London advising clients on the structuring and financing of large scale power and infrastructure projects as well as on UK & EU energy regulation. Rafal is an energy & infrastructure expert at the Sobieski Institute, one of Poland’s most respected think tanks. He is also a Co-founder and Chair of the Transatlantic Future Leaders Forum (TFLF), a foundation that organizes a unique program of internships and thought-leadership meetings for Polish students in Washington D.C. and London. In addition, Rafał is the President of Polish City Club, an organisation for professionals of Polish descent which aims to build a well-connected and successful Polish diaspora in the UK.
Mary-Jay East
Head of Public Policy & Government Affairs in Europe at Arrival
Mary-Jay East
Head of Public Policy & Government Affairs in Europe at Arrival
26.03.2022
#Business
Green Business: The Transition to Low-Carbon Economies
Mary-Jay is responsible for leading all Public Policy and Government Affairs activities for Arrival across the European region. She advises senior international business leaders and policy makers and has specific expertise in industrial and trade policy, R&D and disruptive technologies in Europe.
Mary-Jay has over 12 years of experience across political and international business landscapes. Prior to Arrival, Mary-Jay led Nissan’s government affairs activities in Europe and she has previously worked in the UK Parliament advising and briefing MPs during the Conservative-Liberal Democrat Coalition Government between 2010-2015.
26.03.2022
Green Business: The Transition to Low-Carbon Economies
#Business
Mary-Jay East
Head of Public Policy & Government Affairs in Europe at Arrival
Mary-Jay is responsible for leading all Public Policy and Government Affairs activities for Arrival across the European region. She advises senior international business leaders and policy makers and has specific expertise in industrial and trade policy, R&D and disruptive technologies in Europe.
Mary-Jay has over 12 years of experience across political and international business landscapes. Prior to Arrival, Mary-Jay led Nissan’s government affairs activities in Europe and she has previously worked in the UK Parliament advising and briefing MPs during the Conservative-Liberal Democrat Coalition Government between 2010-2015.
11:55 AM - 1:25 PM
#Politics
26.03.2022
The Politics Panel will focus on the shifting security paradigm in Europe caused by the unprecedented invasion of Ukraine launched by Vladimir Putin.
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The Invasion of Ukraine by the Russian Federation marks a seismic shift in the European and global order. The war is the most significant land invasion of any country since the end of the Second World War and likely embarks Russia on a path to restore its old Carist, or maybe even Soviet sphere of influence. However, the success of the invasion and its actual goals have been put into question by numerous western thinkers. Putin might have miscalculated with regards to the speed of the war’s progress, or perhaps he underestimated the unity of the West concerning its response to the war. Then again, maybe this is just part of his broader plan, which is yet to bear fruit. The panel will explore all of the above questions and speculate about the consequences of a new European Order arising before our eyes.
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The Politics Panel will focus on the shifting security paradigm in Europe caused by the unprecedented invasion of Ukraine launched by Vladimir Putin.
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The Invasion of Ukraine by the Russian Federation marks a seismic shift in the European and global order. The war is the most significant land invasion of any country since the end of the Second World War and likely embarks Russia on a path to restore its old Carist, or maybe even Soviet sphere of influence. However, the success of the invasion and its actual goals have been put into question by numerous western thinkers. Putin might have miscalculated with regards to the speed of the war’s progress, or perhaps he underestimated the unity of the West concerning its response to the war. Then again, maybe this is just part of his broader plan, which is yet to bear fruit. The panel will explore all of the above questions and speculate about the consequences of a new European Order arising before our eyes.
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Bill Browder
co-Founder and CEO of Hermitage Capital Management
Bill Browder
co-Founder and CEO of Hermitage Capital Management
26.03.2022
#Politics
A New Era for Europe: The Future of the Continent’s Security in Light of Putin’s Aggression
Browder was the largest foreign investor in Russia until 2005, when he was denied entry to Russia and declared a “threat to national security” due to his battle against corporate corruption. Following his expulsion, his offices were raided and Hermitage Fund’s investment companies seized by Russian authorities to steal $230 million of taxes that the companies had previously paid. Mr. Browder’s lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky, uncovered this fraud and was subsequently arrested, imprisoned without trial, systematically tortured, and eventually killed in prison in Russia.
Since Magnitsky’s death, Browder has been leading a campaign to expose Russia’s endemic corruption and human rights abuses. He is the head of Global Magnitsky Justice Campaign which seeks to impose targeted visa bans and asset freezes on human rights abusers and highly corrupt officials. Thanks to his fight for justice, the United States imposed the passage of the Sergei Magnitsky Rule of Law Accountability Act in 2012 which were later followed by Canada, the United Kingdom, the Baltic states, the European Union, and Australia with their own versions of the Magnitsky Act.
26.03.2022
A New Era for Europe: The Future of the Continent’s Security in Light of Putin’s Aggression
#Politics
Bill Browder
co-Founder and CEO of Hermitage Capital Management
Browder was the largest foreign investor in Russia until 2005, when he was denied entry to Russia and declared a “threat to national security” due to his battle against corporate corruption. Following his expulsion, his offices were raided and Hermitage Fund’s investment companies seized by Russian authorities to steal $230 million of taxes that the companies had previously paid. Mr. Browder’s lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky, uncovered this fraud and was subsequently arrested, imprisoned without trial, systematically tortured, and eventually killed in prison in Russia.
Since Magnitsky’s death, Browder has been leading a campaign to expose Russia’s endemic corruption and human rights abuses. He is the head of Global Magnitsky Justice Campaign which seeks to impose targeted visa bans and asset freezes on human rights abusers and highly corrupt officials. Thanks to his fight for justice, the United States imposed the passage of the Sergei Magnitsky Rule of Law Accountability Act in 2012 which were later followed by Canada, the United Kingdom, the Baltic states, the European Union, and Australia with their own versions of the Magnitsky Act.
Dariusz Rosati
Member of Polish Sejm and Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland
Dariusz Rosati
Member of Polish Sejm and Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland
26.03.2022
#Politics
A New Era for Europe: The Future of the Continent’s Security in Light of Putin’s Aggression
„Prof. Dariusz Rosati is an economist, diplomat, an incumbent Member of the Polish Sejm as well as a titular professor at the Warsaw School of Economics (from 1990).
His areas of academic expertise include topics such as macroeconomic policy, European integration, finance and international trade.
He graduated from the International Trade Faculty of the Warsaw School of Economics where he obtained a post-doctoral degree in economics in 1978. Then he started to practice as a consultant at the New York headquarters of Citibank (1978-9). He advised a plethora of international organizations, including World Bank, European Commission, International Labour Organization and UNIDO, held a position of the visiting professor at Princeton University (1986-7) and a partner at Ernst&Young Poland (1989-1993).
He headed the section of the Central and Eastern European Countries at the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe in Geneva (1991-5). A former Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs (1995-7) and a member of the Monetary Policy Council of the 1st term (1998-2004). He was elected twice to the European Parliament of the 6th and 8th term (2004–2009, 2014–2019) where he participated in the Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee and took the office of the Chairman of the Delegation to the Parliamentary Committee of the EU-Ukraine Association (2017). As a Member of the Polish Sejm of the 7th term (2011-14), he chaired Parliamentary Public Finance Committee.”
26.03.2022
A New Era for Europe: The Future of the Continent’s Security in Light of Putin’s Aggression
#Politics
Dariusz Rosati
Member of Polish Sejm and Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland
„Prof. Dariusz Rosati is an economist, diplomat, an incumbent Member of the Polish Sejm as well as a titular professor at the Warsaw School of Economics (from 1990).
His areas of academic expertise include topics such as macroeconomic policy, European integration, finance and international trade.
He graduated from the International Trade Faculty of the Warsaw School of Economics where he obtained a post-doctoral degree in economics in 1978. Then he started to practice as a consultant at the New York headquarters of Citibank (1978-9). He advised a plethora of international organizations, including World Bank, European Commission, International Labour Organization and UNIDO, held a position of the visiting professor at Princeton University (1986-7) and a partner at Ernst&Young Poland (1989-1993).
He headed the section of the Central and Eastern European Countries at the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe in Geneva (1991-5). A former Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs (1995-7) and a member of the Monetary Policy Council of the 1st term (1998-2004). He was elected twice to the European Parliament of the 6th and 8th term (2004–2009, 2014–2019) where he participated in the Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee and took the office of the Chairman of the Delegation to the Parliamentary Committee of the EU-Ukraine Association (2017). As a Member of the Polish Sejm of the 7th term (2011-14), he chaired Parliamentary Public Finance Committee.”
Edward Lucas
Former Senior Editor at The Economist
Edward Lucas
Former Senior Editor at The Economist
26.03.2022
#Politics
A New Era for Europe: The Future of the Continent’s Security in Light of Putin’s Aggression
Formerly a senior editor and Moscow Bureau Chief at The Economist, current Senior Fellow at the Centre for European Policy Analysis, and a columnist for The Times. A Liberal Democratic parliamentary candidate in the upcoming 2024 elections for the Cities of London and Westminster constituency. Renowned journalist, a security specialist, and a long-serving foreign correspondent in Berlin, Vienna, Prague, Moscow, and the Baltic states. A speaker of five languages including German, Russian, Czech, Lithuanian, and Polish. And expert on Russian Foreign Policy, as well as espionage and energy policy. Author of the book “The New Cold War” (2008) where he offered dazzling predictions as to the future of Putin’s Russia, which are now finding their expression in the current crisis on both the Russia-Ukraine and within the country itself.
26.03.2022
A New Era for Europe: The Future of the Continent’s Security in Light of Putin’s Aggression
#Politics
Edward Lucas
Former Senior Editor at The Economist
Formerly a senior editor and Moscow Bureau Chief at The Economist, current Senior Fellow at the Centre for European Policy Analysis, and a columnist for The Times. A Liberal Democratic parliamentary candidate in the upcoming 2024 elections for the Cities of London and Westminster constituency. Renowned journalist, a security specialist, and a long-serving foreign correspondent in Berlin, Vienna, Prague, Moscow, and the Baltic states. A speaker of five languages including German, Russian, Czech, Lithuanian, and Polish. And expert on Russian Foreign Policy, as well as espionage and energy policy. Author of the book “The New Cold War” (2008) where he offered dazzling predictions as to the future of Putin’s Russia, which are now finding their expression in the current crisis on both the Russia-Ukraine and within the country itself.
Kataryna Wolczuk
Associate Fellow at Chatham House
Kataryna Wolczuk
Associate Fellow at Chatham House
26.03.2022
#Politics
A New Era for Europe: The Future of the Continent’s Security in Light of Putin’s Aggression
Kataryna Wolczuk is Professor of East European Politics at the Centre for Russian, European and Eurasian Studies (CREES), the University of Birmingham, UK. She holds an MA in Law from the University of Gdansk, Poland, an MSc and a PhD in Russian and East European Studies from the University of Birmingham. Her research focuses on politics in Central and Eastern Europe, EU’s relations with the post-Soviet states as well as on Russia and Eurasian integration. Her publications include: Eurasian Economic Integration: Law, Policy, and Politics, Edward Elgar: 2013, Ukraine between the EU and Russia: the Integration Challenge, Palgrave Macmillan, 2015 (with R. Dragneva) and The Ukraine Conflict: Security, Identity and Politics in the Wider Europe, Routledge: London and New York, 2017 (co-edited with D. Averre). She is an Associate Fellow at the Russia and Eurasia Programme, Chatham House, London.
26.03.2022
A New Era for Europe: The Future of the Continent’s Security in Light of Putin’s Aggression
#Politics
Kataryna Wolczuk
Associate Fellow at Chatham House
Kataryna Wolczuk is Professor of East European Politics at the Centre for Russian, European and Eurasian Studies (CREES), the University of Birmingham, UK. She holds an MA in Law from the University of Gdansk, Poland, an MSc and a PhD in Russian and East European Studies from the University of Birmingham. Her research focuses on politics in Central and Eastern Europe, EU’s relations with the post-Soviet states as well as on Russia and Eurasian integration. Her publications include: Eurasian Economic Integration: Law, Policy, and Politics, Edward Elgar: 2013, Ukraine between the EU and Russia: the Integration Challenge, Palgrave Macmillan, 2015 (with R. Dragneva) and The Ukraine Conflict: Security, Identity and Politics in the Wider Europe, Routledge: London and New York, 2017 (co-edited with D. Averre). She is an Associate Fellow at the Russia and Eurasia Programme, Chatham House, London.
Rasa Juknevičienė
MEP, former Minister of National Defence of Lithuania
Rasa Juknevičienė
MEP, former Minister of National Defence of Lithuania
26.03.2022
#Politics
A New Era for Europe: The Future of the Continent’s Security in Light of Putin’s Aggression
Since 2019 Mrs Juknevičienė has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament, where she holds the positions of Vice-Chair of the EPP group and Vice-Chair of the SEDE Committee. Before becoming an MEP, she served as a Member of the Lithuanian Parliament (1996-2019) and the country’s Minister of National Defence (2008-2012). During her tenure in the Seimas, she was the Head of the Lithuanian Delegation to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly and became the President of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly for 2018. MEP Juknevičienė is a member of the Centre for European Policy Analysis and the ECFR Council. She graduated from Lithuanian University of Health Sciences.
26.03.2022
A New Era for Europe: The Future of the Continent’s Security in Light of Putin’s Aggression
#Politics
Rasa Juknevičienė
MEP, former Minister of National Defence of Lithuania
Since 2019 Mrs Juknevičienė has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament, where she holds the positions of Vice-Chair of the EPP group and Vice-Chair of the SEDE Committee. Before becoming an MEP, she served as a Member of the Lithuanian Parliament (1996-2019) and the country’s Minister of National Defence (2008-2012). During her tenure in the Seimas, she was the Head of the Lithuanian Delegation to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly and became the President of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly for 2018. MEP Juknevičienė is a member of the Centre for European Policy Analysis and the ECFR Council. She graduated from Lithuanian University of Health Sciences.
2:25 PM - 3:45 PM
#Technology
26.03.2022
The Technology and Science Panel will focus on the rapid technological and scientific advancement as a gateway for companies and institutions to model, understand and influence our thinking.
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New technologies will propel the expanding field of neuromarketing to enable a more comprehensive understanding of the human brain. The increasing accuracy and accessibility of data from all areas of our lives contributes to the ‘quantification of the self’. These advances have also made their way into policy making in the form of the extensive use of behavioural insights. A deeper understanding of human behaviour can certainly be a force for the better, however, these advancements raise many questions. Do we still have full control over our decisions? Is there information about ourselves that technology cannot access? Which of the cutting-edge technologies and solutions are going to be most used in the future? How far can influence over human behaviour go? We will try to address such questions during our discussion.
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The Technology and Science Panel will focus on the rapid technological and scientific advancement as a gateway for companies and institutions to model, understand and influence our thinking.
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New technologies will propel the expanding field of neuromarketing to enable a more comprehensive understanding of the human brain. The increasing accuracy and accessibility of data from all areas of our lives contributes to the ‘quantification of the self’. These advances have also made their way into policy making in the form of the extensive use of behavioural insights. A deeper understanding of human behaviour can certainly be a force for the better, however, these advancements raise many questions. Do we still have full control over our decisions? Is there information about ourselves that technology cannot access? Which of the cutting-edge technologies and solutions are going to be most used in the future? How far can influence over human behaviour go? We will try to address such questions during our discussion.
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Joseph Devlin
Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience & Vice Dean for Innovation and Enterprise
Joseph Devlin
Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience & Vice Dean for Innovation and Enterprise
26.03.2022
#Technology
The Union of Body, Mind and Technology: Who is in Control?
Joe started in artificial intelligence but found himself more interested in how the human mind works. After training in neuroimaging at Cambridge and Oxford, he established a reputation as a leading researcher in how the human brain processes language before taking up posts as Head of Experimental Psychology and then Vice-Dean (Innovation & Enterprise) at UCL. Joe’s collaborations with corporate partners include Audible, Vue cinemas, Finecast, the rail industry, and Encore Tickets. His research has been featured in CNN, the BBC and the Times, among others. Joe has published >80 scientific articles in international journals.
26.03.2022
The Union of Body, Mind and Technology: Who is in Control?
#Technology
Joseph Devlin
Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience & Vice Dean for Innovation and Enterprise
Joe started in artificial intelligence but found himself more interested in how the human mind works. After training in neuroimaging at Cambridge and Oxford, he established a reputation as a leading researcher in how the human brain processes language before taking up posts as Head of Experimental Psychology and then Vice-Dean (Innovation & Enterprise) at UCL. Joe’s collaborations with corporate partners include Audible, Vue cinemas, Finecast, the rail industry, and Encore Tickets. His research has been featured in CNN, the BBC and the Times, among others. Joe has published >80 scientific articles in international journals.
Leo Scott Smith
Founder and CEO of Tended | Forbes 30U30
Leo Scott Smith
Founder and CEO of Tended | Forbes 30U30
26.03.2022
#Technology
The Union of Body, Mind and Technology: Who is in Control?
Leo Scott Smith is Tended’s CEO and founder, having started the business in 2017 to create transformative tech solutions that can put an end to occupational fatalities. He was named as one of the Forbes 30 Under 30 2021, the Midlands Startup Entrepreneur of the Year at the 2019 Great British Entrepreneur Awards, and sits as the Lead Digital Advisor and Vice Chair for Lincoln City’s £20m economic regeneration programme. As a serial entrepreneur with eight years’ experience in AI and IoT, Leo has grown Tended into an award-winning technology company of 34 people that to date has raised over £4.5m of private investment.
26.03.2022
The Union of Body, Mind and Technology: Who is in Control?
#Technology
Leo Scott Smith
Founder and CEO of Tended | Forbes 30U30
Leo Scott Smith is Tended’s CEO and founder, having started the business in 2017 to create transformative tech solutions that can put an end to occupational fatalities. He was named as one of the Forbes 30 Under 30 2021, the Midlands Startup Entrepreneur of the Year at the 2019 Great British Entrepreneur Awards, and sits as the Lead Digital Advisor and Vice Chair for Lincoln City’s £20m economic regeneration programme. As a serial entrepreneur with eight years’ experience in AI and IoT, Leo has grown Tended into an award-winning technology company of 34 people that to date has raised over £4.5m of private investment.
Victoria Gill
BBC News Science Correspondent
Victoria Gill
BBC News Science Correspondent
26.03.2022
#Technology
The Union of Body, Mind and Technology: Who is in Control?
Victoria Gill is an award-winning science journalist and correspondent for BBC News and a presenter on Radio 4’s weekly Inside Science programme. She has reported news and features on science and the environment for the BBC – online, on TV and radio, since 2010. Her BBC World TV documentary, In the Shadow of Chernobyl, won an Association of British Science Writers award in 2020. But most recently she has had to turn her attention to reporting on the potential impacts of active conflict in the vicinity of Ukraine’s nuclear power stations.
26.03.2022
The Union of Body, Mind and Technology: Who is in Control?
#Technology
Victoria Gill
BBC News Science Correspondent
Victoria Gill is an award-winning science journalist and correspondent for BBC News and a presenter on Radio 4’s weekly Inside Science programme. She has reported news and features on science and the environment for the BBC – online, on TV and radio, since 2010. Her BBC World TV documentary, In the Shadow of Chernobyl, won an Association of British Science Writers award in 2020. But most recently she has had to turn her attention to reporting on the potential impacts of active conflict in the vicinity of Ukraine’s nuclear power stations.
4:10 PM - 5:30 PM
#Art
26.03.2022
The Art panel will gather artists from a range of disciplines who will debate over the role of art in our life.
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The world is messy, hectic, rather fast paced and seems to lack any meaning, unless one puts their own meaning into it. Art is a perfect example of how humans attempt to bring physical evidence of their personal subjective experience. It provides us insight into each other’s non-material worlds of ideas, beliefs, values and even fears. This year, the Art panel will gather artists from a range of disciplines such as literature, fine arts and cinema, in an attempt to tackle the topic „Art as a tool of bringing meaning to the world”. During the discussion, the participants will exchange and debate their perception of the topic, in regard to their means of conveying significant ideas, within the framework of each respective form of expression. The panel will encompass such questions like – „Whether Art has evolved from being imitative to expressive?”; „By putting something in a new scenario within their artwork, can artists change the guise of things?”; And finally, – „Why do humans always try to find the meaning in things? Can Art be a helpful tool in this search?”. This panel will be a great opportunity for a diverse, mid- provoking and opinion-challenging discussion, which will not leave you indifferent.
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The Art panel will gather artists from a range of disciplines who will debate over the role of art in our life.
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The world is messy, hectic, rather fast paced and seems to lack any meaning, unless one puts their own meaning into it. Art is a perfect example of how humans attempt to bring physical evidence of their personal subjective experience. It provides us insight into each other’s non-material worlds of ideas, beliefs, values and even fears. This year, the Art panel will gather artists from a range of disciplines such as literature, fine arts and cinema, in an attempt to tackle the topic „Art as a tool of bringing meaning to the world”. During the discussion, the participants will exchange and debate their perception of the topic, in regard to their means of conveying significant ideas, within the framework of each respective form of expression. The panel will encompass such questions like – „Whether Art has evolved from being imitative to expressive?”; „By putting something in a new scenario within their artwork, can artists change the guise of things?”; And finally, – „Why do humans always try to find the meaning in things? Can Art be a helpful tool in this search?”. This panel will be a great opportunity for a diverse, mid- provoking and opinion-challenging discussion, which will not leave you indifferent.
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Arch Hades
Acclaimed and Bestselling British Poet
Arch Hades
Acclaimed and Bestselling British Poet
26.03.2022
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Art as a Tool of Bringing Meaning to the World
„Arch Hades is an acclaimed, best selling poet from London, author of four volumes – High Tide (2018), Fool’s Gold (2020), Paper Romance (2021), Arcadia (2022) – known best for exploring the topics of modern romance and poetry of philosophy in a traditional lyrical style.
In 2021, she shifted focus to the intersection of the spoken word with various art mediums, which culminated in her debuting ‘Arcadia’ at the prestigious Christie’s 21C evening sale in New York, where it became the most expensive poem ever sold.”
26.03.2022
Art as a Tool of Bringing Meaning to the World
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Arch Hades
Acclaimed and Bestselling British Poet
„Arch Hades is an acclaimed, best selling poet from London, author of four volumes – High Tide (2018), Fool’s Gold (2020), Paper Romance (2021), Arcadia (2022) – known best for exploring the topics of modern romance and poetry of philosophy in a traditional lyrical style.
In 2021, she shifted focus to the intersection of the spoken word with various art mediums, which culminated in her debuting ‘Arcadia’ at the prestigious Christie’s 21C evening sale in New York, where it became the most expensive poem ever sold.”
Krzysztof Zanussi
Polish Film Director
Krzysztof Zanussi
Polish Film Director
26.03.2022
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Art as a Tool of Bringing Meaning to the World
Krzysztof Zanussi is a film director, producer and scriptwriter. Director of many award-winning, internationally acclaimed films (awarded in Cannes, Venice, Locarno, Moscow, Chicago, Montreal, Berlin, Tokio): The Structure of Crystal (1968), Illumination (1973), Camouflage (1976), Constant Factor (1980), The Year of Quiet Sun (1984), Wherever You Are If You Are (1988), In Full Gallop (1996), Persona Non Grata (2004), Revisited (2009), Foreign Body (2014). Krzysztof Zanussi is also a theatre director staging productions all around the world. He has authored several books. Has honorary doctorate of many renowned universities and gives lectures all around the world.
President of Tor Film Production, producer of the films by Krzysztof Kieślowski, Agnieszka Holland and many others. Professor at Silesian University in Katowice (Poland).
26.03.2022
Art as a Tool of Bringing Meaning to the World
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Krzysztof Zanussi
Polish Film Director
Krzysztof Zanussi is a film director, producer and scriptwriter. Director of many award-winning, internationally acclaimed films (awarded in Cannes, Venice, Locarno, Moscow, Chicago, Montreal, Berlin, Tokio): The Structure of Crystal (1968), Illumination (1973), Camouflage (1976), Constant Factor (1980), The Year of Quiet Sun (1984), Wherever You Are If You Are (1988), In Full Gallop (1996), Persona Non Grata (2004), Revisited (2009), Foreign Body (2014). Krzysztof Zanussi is also a theatre director staging productions all around the world. He has authored several books. Has honorary doctorate of many renowned universities and gives lectures all around the world.
President of Tor Film Production, producer of the films by Krzysztof Kieślowski, Agnieszka Holland and many others. Professor at Silesian University in Katowice (Poland).
Fiona Hayes
Fashion Yearbook Art Director
Fiona Hayes
Fashion Yearbook Art Director
26.03.2022
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Art as a Tool of Bringing Meaning to the World
The Fashion Yearbook art director Fiona Hayes studied graphic design and art history in her native Dublin, Ireland, and started her career in media at the BBC in London. A fervent magazine lover, she has worked as art director of Punch, Company, Eve, British House & Garden, GQ India, and the British and Russian editions of Cosmopolitan. In 2002 she founded independent photography magazine DayFour, publishing it continuously until 2012. She has had a lasting influence on the face of Condé Nast: as art director of Russian Vogue 1998-2000 and again 2010-2012. She also spent two and a half years in Munich with Condé Nast Germany. Between 2013 and 2019, Fiona oversaw all of the launches of Condé Nast International – 14 magazines, including seven editions of Vogue. She still consults as design director at large for Vogue Hong Kong.
Outside the publishing world, Fiona has been art director of contemporary art auction house Phillips de Pury in London and New York, and consultant art director for Russian luxury retail group Mercury/TSUM. Current clients range from a multinational retail group to a boutique publishing organisation.
She lectures on media at Leeds University, photography at Oxford Brookes University, and creative direction at Condé Nast College of Fashion & Design, London.
26.03.2022
Art as a Tool of Bringing Meaning to the World
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Fiona Hayes
Fashion Yearbook Art Director
The Fashion Yearbook art director Fiona Hayes studied graphic design and art history in her native Dublin, Ireland, and started her career in media at the BBC in London. A fervent magazine lover, she has worked as art director of Punch, Company, Eve, British House & Garden, GQ India, and the British and Russian editions of Cosmopolitan. In 2002 she founded independent photography magazine DayFour, publishing it continuously until 2012. She has had a lasting influence on the face of Condé Nast: as art director of Russian Vogue 1998-2000 and again 2010-2012. She also spent two and a half years in Munich with Condé Nast Germany. Between 2013 and 2019, Fiona oversaw all of the launches of Condé Nast International – 14 magazines, including seven editions of Vogue. She still consults as design director at large for Vogue Hong Kong.
Outside the publishing world, Fiona has been art director of contemporary art auction house Phillips de Pury in London and New York, and consultant art director for Russian luxury retail group Mercury/TSUM. Current clients range from a multinational retail group to a boutique publishing organisation.
She lectures on media at Leeds University, photography at Oxford Brookes University, and creative direction at Condé Nast College of Fashion & Design, London.
Jan Komasa
Polish Film Director
Jan Komasa
Polish Film Director
26.03.2022
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Art as a Tool of Bringing Meaning to the World
Polish film director, screenwriter, and producer, whose works have been awarded or premiered at festivals in Cannes, Venice, Tribeca, Berlin, Toronto, Palm Springs, and Chicago. Member of the American Film Academy.His film „Corpus Christi” (2019), inspired by real events, won over 50 awards at almost 70 film festivals and was nominated for an Oscar in the Best International Film category. The four films he made attracted a total of 5 million viewers to cinemas in Poland. He was honoured by the Polish Film Academy with the Best Director and Discovery of the Year statuettes, he also won the Best Film statuette. His interests are not limited only to fictional films – he is also involved in other audiovisual forms – from commercials, music videos, through series to his own contemporary ballet show „Xenophonia” presented at the Malta Festival in 2016. He is the director of full-length documentaries, one of which – „Spływ” – was in the Top Ten competition at the 2007 Krakow Film Festival. His second documentary entitled The Warsaw Uprising attracted 600,000 people to Polish cinemas. viewers and won the prestigious Golden Reel Award and the Polish Film Academy award for the Best Documentary Film. In 2020, he made the film „Hejter” awarded with the Best Film Award at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York. The film was purchased for distribution by Netflix, and the rights to the series were acquired by HBO. Komasa is a lecturer at the National Film School in Łódź and an expert at the Polish Film Institute.
26.03.2022
Art as a Tool of Bringing Meaning to the World
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Jan Komasa
Polish Film Director
Polish film director, screenwriter, and producer, whose works have been awarded or premiered at festivals in Cannes, Venice, Tribeca, Berlin, Toronto, Palm Springs, and Chicago. Member of the American Film Academy.His film „Corpus Christi” (2019), inspired by real events, won over 50 awards at almost 70 film festivals and was nominated for an Oscar in the Best International Film category. The four films he made attracted a total of 5 million viewers to cinemas in Poland. He was honoured by the Polish Film Academy with the Best Director and Discovery of the Year statuettes, he also won the Best Film statuette. His interests are not limited only to fictional films – he is also involved in other audiovisual forms – from commercials, music videos, through series to his own contemporary ballet show „Xenophonia” presented at the Malta Festival in 2016. He is the director of full-length documentaries, one of which – „Spływ” – was in the Top Ten competition at the 2007 Krakow Film Festival. His second documentary entitled The Warsaw Uprising attracted 600,000 people to Polish cinemas. viewers and won the prestigious Golden Reel Award and the Polish Film Academy award for the Best Documentary Film. In 2020, he made the film „Hejter” awarded with the Best Film Award at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York. The film was purchased for distribution by Netflix, and the rights to the series were acquired by HBO. Komasa is a lecturer at the National Film School in Łódź and an expert at the Polish Film Institute.
Arthur Poujois
Artist with a Focus on Painting, Performance and Installation Making
Arthur Poujois
Artist with a Focus on Painting, Performance and Installation Making
26.03.2022
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Art as a Tool of Bringing Meaning to the World
Arthur Poujois (b.1994, Charleville, France) is an artist with a focus on painting, stained glass and installation making. After completing a bachelor’s at the Slade School of fine art and a semester at the New York Studio School, he moved to Paris to establish his studio practice and begin a master’s degree in philosophy at the Sorbonne. Following this, he became a resident artist at the Lee- Alexander Mcqueen Sarabande foundation in London.
Poujois explores the properties of images through various forms: whether developing experimental techniques of engraving, etching, screen printing, painting or just orchestrating images with the viewers themselves.
There are puzzles without solutions around us, and his work tries to reveal new ways of coding or decoding those as such. The images Poujois makes are interactive motions of printed time; the core nature of his work lies in that paradox. He calls himself an “Earther casting the runes”, intending to find an ecology of images that would break what he calls the automatisation of representation. Individually through a never-ending flux of images, Poujois’ performative abstraction subverts the honesty of the mark and the dishonesty of the eye.
“The best way to describe my fascination for storytelling and the magical quality of symbols and images is to recall my first encounter with the ancient Egyptian book of the dead. I remember being seduced by the estranged beauty of the hieroglyphs and the spiritual meaning given to them.
Since then, I have always carried with me a deep interest in spirituality and philology. At the dawn of enlightenment, the word ‘grammar’ (the study of language) evolved into ‘glamour’ (magic spell). Just like a magic spell, forms and signs can create an illusion, one that I’ve imposed myself to find in my creations. Indeed, my work is rooted in magic, storytelling and an obsession for transmission and symbiosis.” (Extract from the artist’s statement)
Poujois has appeared in several group shows in Paris, London, New York, Moscow and Hong Kong. He lives and works in London.
26.03.2022
Art as a Tool of Bringing Meaning to the World
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Arthur Poujois
Artist with a Focus on Painting, Performance and Installation Making
Arthur Poujois (b.1994, Charleville, France) is an artist with a focus on painting, stained glass and installation making. After completing a bachelor’s at the Slade School of fine art and a semester at the New York Studio School, he moved to Paris to establish his studio practice and begin a master’s degree in philosophy at the Sorbonne. Following this, he became a resident artist at the Lee- Alexander Mcqueen Sarabande foundation in London.
Poujois explores the properties of images through various forms: whether developing experimental techniques of engraving, etching, screen printing, painting or just orchestrating images with the viewers themselves.
There are puzzles without solutions around us, and his work tries to reveal new ways of coding or decoding those as such. The images Poujois makes are interactive motions of printed time; the core nature of his work lies in that paradox. He calls himself an “Earther casting the runes”, intending to find an ecology of images that would break what he calls the automatisation of representation. Individually through a never-ending flux of images, Poujois’ performative abstraction subverts the honesty of the mark and the dishonesty of the eye.
“The best way to describe my fascination for storytelling and the magical quality of symbols and images is to recall my first encounter with the ancient Egyptian book of the dead. I remember being seduced by the estranged beauty of the hieroglyphs and the spiritual meaning given to them.
Since then, I have always carried with me a deep interest in spirituality and philology. At the dawn of enlightenment, the word ‘grammar’ (the study of language) evolved into ‘glamour’ (magic spell). Just like a magic spell, forms and signs can create an illusion, one that I’ve imposed myself to find in my creations. Indeed, my work is rooted in magic, storytelling and an obsession for transmission and symbiosis.” (Extract from the artist’s statement)
Poujois has appeared in several group shows in Paris, London, New York, Moscow and Hong Kong. He lives and works in London.
Jan Valik
Modern Painter Shortlisted for Contemporary British Painting Prize 2021
Jan Valik
Modern Painter Shortlisted for Contemporary British Painting Prize 2021
26.03.2022
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Art as a Tool of Bringing Meaning to the World
Jan Valik (b. 1987 in Slovakia), currently based in London, received his MA from Academy of Fine Arts in Prague in 2012. He received the third place in the VUB Foundation Painting Prize ’16 (Slovakia, 2016) and recently he was shortlisted for Contemporary British Painting Prize 2021.
Practice of Jan Valik is tangentially connected to the ideas of painting as a psychological space where relationship between human perception and the visual experience consists of complex ties but also of fine nuances.
The contradiction of the land’s permanence with its volatile and arbitrary borders contrasts deeply with one’s own imagination projected onto it. Fluid and evoking spatial and pictorial ambiguities, his works balance the tensions of simultaneous presence and absence to disrupt (conventional) binaries of abstract and figurative. This is a persistent theme in Valik’s painting practice, underscored by contemporary issues of global displacement and migration, environmental anxiety and posthumanist understanding of histories.
Valik has participated in a number of Artist-in-Residence Programs, notably at BankART (Yokohama, Japan, 2016), Banska Stanica (Slovakia, 2018) and Egon Schiele Art Centre (Cesky Krumlov, Czechia, 2018). In 2020 he joined Turps Studio Programme where he is currently for the second year.
His work has been shown in solo exhibitions in Belgium, Austria, Slovakia, Czechia and Japan, as well as in group exhibitions in the UK and across Europe (Belgium, Germany, Austria, Czechia, Slovakia, Latvia, France and Ireland) as well as in China and Japan.
26.03.2022
Art as a Tool of Bringing Meaning to the World
#Art
Jan Valik
Modern Painter Shortlisted for Contemporary British Painting Prize 2021
Jan Valik (b. 1987 in Slovakia), currently based in London, received his MA from Academy of Fine Arts in Prague in 2012. He received the third place in the VUB Foundation Painting Prize ’16 (Slovakia, 2016) and recently he was shortlisted for Contemporary British Painting Prize 2021.
Practice of Jan Valik is tangentially connected to the ideas of painting as a psychological space where relationship between human perception and the visual experience consists of complex ties but also of fine nuances.
The contradiction of the land’s permanence with its volatile and arbitrary borders contrasts deeply with one’s own imagination projected onto it. Fluid and evoking spatial and pictorial ambiguities, his works balance the tensions of simultaneous presence and absence to disrupt (conventional) binaries of abstract and figurative. This is a persistent theme in Valik’s painting practice, underscored by contemporary issues of global displacement and migration, environmental anxiety and posthumanist understanding of histories.
Valik has participated in a number of Artist-in-Residence Programs, notably at BankART (Yokohama, Japan, 2016), Banska Stanica (Slovakia, 2018) and Egon Schiele Art Centre (Cesky Krumlov, Czechia, 2018). In 2020 he joined Turps Studio Programme where he is currently for the second year.
His work has been shown in solo exhibitions in Belgium, Austria, Slovakia, Czechia and Japan, as well as in group exhibitions in the UK and across Europe (Belgium, Germany, Austria, Czechia, Slovakia, Latvia, France and Ireland) as well as in China and Japan.