Adamski, Marek

Fashion and costume designer, stylist, author of costumes for theatrical productions by Krzysztof Garbaczewski (Dostoevsky’s Demons, Polski Theatre in Wrocław, 2010; Death Star, Dramatyczny Theatre in Wałbrzych, 2010), Natalia Korczakowska (Nathan the Wise, National Theatre in Warsaw, 2012; multimedia installation I, Christopher at the MOCAK Museum of Contemporary Art in Cracow, 2014; Mickiewicz’s Forefathers’ Eve Part Three, Dramatyczny Theatre in Białystok, 2014). He designed Magdalena Cielecka’s image in Sarah Cane’s Psychosis 4.48 (directed by Grzegorz Jarzyna, TR Warszawa). Apart from designing costumes, Adamski presents them on his own photographs and collages, which have been presented at the Nova Polska exhibition in Lille (2004) and at the Graphic Arts Inspirations festival in Szczecin (2010). In 2004 the Swedish brand Absolut invited Adamski and nine other avant-garde fashion designers from different countries to create a limited series of promotional T-shirts.

Marek Adamski made his debut at the Grand Theatre – National Opera in Warsaw in 2011, designing costumes for Moniuszko’s Halka (directed by Natalia Korczakowska). He cooperated with Mariusz Treliński on productions of Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta and Bartók’s Bluebeard’s Castle (Warsaw 2013, New York’s Metropolitan Opera 2015), Hans Werner Henze’s Boulevard Solitude (Welsh National Opera in Cardiff, 2014), Richard Strauss’s Salome (State Opera in Prague 2014, Warsaw 2016), Thomas Adès’s Powder Her Face (Warsaw, La Monnaie in Brussels 2015), as well as Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde (Festspielhaus BadenBaden, coproduced with Warsaw’s Grand Theatre – National Opera, New York’s Metropolitan Opera, and the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing 2016).