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
2022
Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz/FL
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
Galerie Artdocks, Bremen
Galerie im Park – Museum for Contemporary Art, Bremen
Petra Gut Contemporary, Zurich
2019
Petra Gut Contemporary, Zurich
Galerie im Park – Museum for Contemporary Art, Bremen
Kühlhaus Berlin, Berlin
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
Heather James Fine Art, Palm Desert CA
2014
Heather James Fine Art, Jackson WY
Hollis Taggart Galleries, New York
Grand Gallery, The National Arts Club, NY
Galerie des 20. Jahrhunderts, Basel
Galerie Proarta, Zurich
2013
Hollis Taggart Galleries, New York
222 East 41st Street Space, New York
2012
Galerie Baudoin Lebon, Paris
Catherine Asquith Gallery, Sydney
2011
Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki
Galerie Proarta, Zurich
Hollis Taggart Galleries, New York
2010
Catherine Asquith Gallery, Melbourne
Octavia Art Gallery, New Orleans
Galerie des 20. Jahrhunderts, Basel
2009
Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts, Miami
Cosmos Gallery, Seoul
C.A.M. Galerie, Istanbul
2008
Sara Tecchia Roma New York, New York
Galerie Bergner + Job, Mainz
Art-2 Gallery, Singapore
2007
Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts, Miami
Galerie am Lindenplatz, Vaduz
Sara Tecchia New York, New York
2006
Lausberg Contemporary, Toronto
Karin Weber Gallery, Hong Kong
Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts, Miami
2005
Sara Tecchia New York, New York
Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia
Art Forum Ute Barth, Zurich
Ueker&Ueker, Basel
2004
Galerie am Lindenplatz, Vaduz
Galerie Marie-Louise Wirth, Hochfelden
2003
Galerie am Lindenplatz, Vaduz
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.