Karol Tyminski is a Polish choreographer and performer based in Berlin. His works, oscillating between dance and performance, weave together queer narratives and his brutalist choreographies. The term "brutalist” which Tyminski takes from the architectural style relates to his explorations around constructing choreographies which recognize the human body rather as a thing instead of a fully realized individual. The “objectification” of the human body Tyminski understands as means of accessing ones physicality in altered manner. Similarly as the brutalist architecture exposes the construction materials and the functionality of the building Tyminski dissects the performers body in order to expose its materiality and workings. The performer, fluctuating between dance and labour, is often facing ones own limits, which broken-through expose one onto the limitless possibilities of being otherwise, outside of the culturally imposed idea of the self.

Tyminski’s recognition of the human body as a “thing” has led him towards new explorations, in which it is not the rapture within oneself but the integration of the human in the agglomerate of things, or rather dissolving one into the ecology of matter, as means of questioning the self. The notion of cross-matter eroticism, which the artist is at present developing, is a result of taking that path - what can be seen in his recent works such as “Heavy Weight Holding Body” (2022) - a homoerotic story weaved together with a narrative of seeking intimacy with architecture, “Harbor” (2020) - a solo concert which focuses on sensorial, not acoustic, experience of music, or “Water Sports” (2020) - a group piece which speaks of romantic and sexual relation with the ocean in time of cataclysm.

Tyminski had an honour to be performing al across Europe but also in Japan, Singapore, Australia, Iceland and the USA. Since the year 2013 to 2020 he was one of the artists supported by European Network Advancing Performing Arts Project (APAP). During his career the artist received support also from Berlin Senate, Goethe Insitute, Open Latitudes, Tanzhaus Zurich, European Commission, American Realness, Esplanade Theatre Singapore, Dance Nucleus, Asia Europe Foundation, Old Brewery New Dance, ImpulsTanz, Cialo/Umysl Foundation, The Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of Poland, Institute of Music and Dance, Movement Research, Mica Moca, Adam Mickiewicz Institute, Burdag Foundation, Szene Salzburg, Tanzfabrik Berlin, Maison de la Culture d’Amien, BUDA Kortrijk, Sophiensaele and many others.