Nikodem Karolak is the Director of the InlanDimensions International Arts Network, a film and theatre producer, artist manager, literary translator, and interpreter. He is a recipient of the prestigious PhD scholarship from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology (MEXT) at Waseda University in Tokyo and was awarded the Adam Mickiewicz University Foundation Award for Best PhD Researchers in 2018.

From 2016 to 2018, Karolak curated the Avant Art Festival in Wrocław and contributed to numerous international festivals as a translator and interpreter, including the Theatre Olympics (2016), Malta Festival Poznań, Konfrontacje Theatre Festival, and the Five Flavours Film Festival.

In 2019, he translated Chijin no ai (Naomi) by Tanizaki Jun'ichirō from Japanese into Polish and curated the New Horizons International Film Festival. In October of the same year, he launched the InlanDimensions International Arts Festival with support from three strategic Polish partners: the Gdańsk Shakespeare Theatre, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, and the Grotowski Institute in Wrocław — establishing a new cultural bridge between Japan and Poland.

In November and December 2019, he co-organized a Terayama Shūji film retrospective and stage performances of Nuhikun – Directions to Servants at the Hong Kong Cultural Centre (13–14 December 2019) in collaboration with the Leisure and Cultural Services Department.

He was recently involved in the production of the Hong Kong performance of We Are Leaving by Krzysztof Warlikowski, recipient of the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale; co-producing the Japan–Poland theatrical collaboration N/Cosmos directed by Hiroshi Koike; co-producing the Polish tour of Ivona, Princess of Burgundia directed by Motoi Miura; and is currently preparing a showcase of contemporary Japanese theatre for the 2026 Craiova International Shakespeare Festival.