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.