Karina Wisniewska
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Karina Wisniewska

Born in Venice. Lives and works in Switzerland.
Represented by international galleries with works in public and corporate as well as private collections.
College of music and theatre studies in Bern, University of Bern, Mozarteum in Salzburg, Zurich Hochschule der Künste. With atelier stays in New York and at the Baltic Sea.
Renowned awards as the Kiefer Hablitzel Foundation Award, the UBS Jubilee Foundation Award, the European Culture Prize, Venice/I of the European Council and the European Parliament.
Inaugural prizewinner of the Armand von Ernst Banquiers Foundation. 


Selected Art Fairs
Art Basel (Jamileh Weber, Zurich)
Art Basel Miami Beach (Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts, Miami)
Armory Show New York (Hollis Taggart Galleries, New York)
Expo Chicago (Hollis Taggart Galleries, New York)
Houston Fine Art Fair (Hollis Taggart Galleries, New York)
Art Cologne (Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts, Miami / Galerie Am Lindenplatz, Vaduz)
KIAF Seoul (Cosmos Gallery, Seoul)
Artefiera Bologna (Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts, Miami)
ShContemporary Shanghai (Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts, Miami)
Abu Dhabi Art Fair (Waterhouse & Dodd, London)
Photo London, Art Paris, Unseen Amsterdam (Bildhalle, Zurich)


Selected Collections
General Electric, Art Collection
​Espace de l'Art Concret Mouans-Sartoux/F 
Collection Sybil Albers and Gottfried Honegger
Musée Abbatiale de Payerne
Museum zu Allerheiligen, Schaffhausen
Mezzanin Stiftung für Kunst, Schaan/FL
Collection Credit Suisse
UBS Art Collection
Collection VP Bank, Triesen/FL
Hyposwiss Privatbank, Zurich
Representative private collections 


Selected Exhibitions

2023 

New Space for Art, Kantstrasse Berlin/D

Special Project, Biennale Venice, Venice/I

2022  

Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz/FL

Efficiency Club, Zürich

2021

Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz/FL

Petra Gut Contemporary, Zurich

Petra Gut Contemporary, St. Moritz

eac. – Espace de l'Art Concret Mouans-Sartoux/F

2020

Galerie Selected Artists, Berlin/D

Galerie Artdocks, Bremen/D

Galerie im Park – Museum for Contemporary Art, Bremen/D

Petra Gut Contemporary, Zurich

2019  

Petra Gut Contemporary, Zurich

Galerie im Park – Museum for Contemporary Art, Bremen/D

Kühlhaus Berlin, Berlin/D

2018  

Galerie Proarta, Zurich

2017 

WUNDE®N, Kunstmuseum Appenzell

Bildhalle, Zurich  

Galerie Proarta, Zurich

2016  

WUNDE®N, Kunstmuseum Appenzell

2015  

Karin Weber Gallery, Hong Kong/HK

Heather James Fine Art, Palm Desert CA/USA

2014  

Heather James Fine Art, Jackson WY/USA

Hollis Taggart Galleries, New York/USA

Grand Gallery, The National Arts Club, NY/USA

Galerie des 20. Jahrhunderts, Basel

Galerie Proarta, Zurich

2013  

Hollis Taggart Galleries, New York/USA

222 East 41st Street Space, New York/USA

2012  

Galerie Baudoin Lebon, Paris/F

Catherine Asquith Gallery, Sydney/AUS

2011  

Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki/FIN

Galerie Proarta, Zurich

Hollis Taggart Galleries, New York/USA

2010   

Catherine Asquith Gallery, Melbourne/AUS

Octavia Art Gallery, New Orleans/USA

Galerie des 20. Jahrhunderts, Basel

2009  

Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts, Miami/USA

Cosmos Gallery, Seoul/KOR

C.A.M. Galerie, Istanbul/TR

2008  

Sara Tecchia Roma New York, New York/USA

Galerie Bergner + Job, Mainz/D

Art-2 Gallery, Singapore/SG

2007  

Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts, Miami/USA

Galerie am Lindenplatz, Vaduz/FL

Sara Tecchia New York, New York/USA

2006  

Lausberg Contemporary, Toronto/CA

Karin Weber Gallery, Hong Kong/HK

Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts, Miami /USA       

2005  

Sara Tecchia New York, New York/USA

Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia/USA

Art Forum Ute Barth, Zurich

Ueker&Ueker, Basel

2004  

Galerie am Lindenplatz, Vaduz/FL

Galerie Marie-Louise Wirth, Hochfelden

2003  

Galerie am Lindenplatz, Vaduz/FL

2002  

Galerie Fischer, Luzern

2001   

Musée Abbatiale de Payerne

Yehudi Menuhin Festival, Gstaad



Selected Publications

25 Jahre VP Bank Kunststiftung, Vaduz, VP Bank, 2022.

WUNDE®N_Werke aus der Kunstsammlung Mezzanin, Liechtenstein. Kunstmuseum Appenzell. Göttingen: Steidl Verlag, 2017.

Espace de l'Art concret. Donation Albers-Honegger - Konkrete Kunst. Schenkung Albers-Honegger. Isthme Editions, Paris 2014.

Karina Wisniewska. London: Albemarle Gallery, 2014.

Karina Wisniewska. New York: Hollis Taggart Galleries, 2013. Text by Guido Magnaguagno.

Eine Begegnung mit der Sammlung VP Bank – Kunststiftung. Vaduz: VP Bank – Kunststiftung, 2012.

Sturzenegger Stiftung, Jahresbericht/Erwerbungen. Schaffhausen: Museum zu Allerheiligen, 2011/12.

Sammlung Credit Suisse – Kunst im Geschäftsumfeld. Zurich: Scheidegger & Spiess, 2011.

Nature Pieces. Baden: self-published, 2010.

Bewegte Stille – Silent Dynamism. Bern – Sulgen – Zurich: Benteli Publishers, 2009. Texts by Guido Magnaguagno and Dominique von Burg.

Sturzenegger Stiftung, Jahresbericht/Erwerbungen. Schaffhausen: Museum zu Allerheiligen, 2009/10.

Karina Wisniewska. Basel: Galerie Ueker & Ueker, 2005. Text by Barbara Bürer.

Visarte Zürich im Metropol 2005. Zurich: visarte Zürich, 2005.

Peinture & Musique. Payerne: Musée de Payerne, 2001.Text by J.-P. Jornod.