Karina Wisniewska

Biography

Karina Wisniewska is a Polish-Swiss artist with an interdisciplinary background in music and visual art. Following an internationally successful career as a concert pianist, she has devoted herself fully to visual art since 2000. Her artistic practice moves between painting, photography, and pictorial intervention.
At the core of her work are perception, resonance, and transformation as experiential fields. Musical thinking, philosophical reflection, and a process-oriented understanding of image and space shape her practice. Her works have been exhibited internationally and are held in public and private collections.
She lives and works in Switzerland.

Full CV

Born in Venice to a Polish mother and a Swiss diplomat, she spent her early childhood in Italy and Egypt before returning to Switzerland. She studied at the Bern University of Music and at the Mozarteum in Salzburg.
From 1992 to 2000, she performed internationally as a soloist and chamber musician, producing ten CD recordings. Her concert appearances included the Lucerne Festival, the Berlin Philharmonic, the Baden-Baden Music Festival, and the White Nights Festival in St. Petersburg. In 1993 she gave the premiere of Rachmaninoff’s First Piano Concerto in its original version, followed in 1994 by its first CD recording as a world premiere with the Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Vladimir Fedoseyev.
In 2000, a hand injury brought her career as a pianist to an end. She subsequently turned to painting, and later—from 2017 onwards—also to photography. She has undertaken studio residencies, among others, in New York and on the Baltic coast.
Her work is exhibited internationally, presented at major art fairs, and held in public as well as significant private collections.
Her awards include the Kiefer Hablitzel Prize, the UBS Jubilee Foundation Prize, Swiss Musician of the Year, the European Cultural Award (Council of Europe and European Parliament), and First Prize of the Armand von Ernst Banquiers Foundation.

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)
Art Cologne (Galerie Am Lindenplatz, Vaduz/FL)
KIAF Seoul (Cosmos Gallery, Seoul)
Artefiera Bologna (Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts, Miami)
ShContemporary Shanghai (Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts, Miami)
Art Dubai (Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts, Miami)
Abu Dhabi Art Fair (Waterhouse & Dodd, London)
Photo London (Bildhalle, Zurich)
Art Paris (Bildhalle, Zurich)
Unseen Amsterdam (Bildhalle, Zurich)

Collections

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

Exhibitions

2026
CCAA – Centro di Cultura e d’Arte Ascona
Art Gallery Andermatt
Galerie Le Chien d’Or, Quebec City
Casa del Arte, Palma de Mallorca
Expo Strasbourg art3f, Strasbourg
Kloster St. Urban
2025
Bergé Studio, Hong Kong
Galerie WOS, Pfäffikon SZ
2024
Galerie WOS, Zurich
Petra Gut Contemporary, Zurich
2023
New Space for Art, Kantstrasse Berlin
Johnathan Schultz Gallery, Miami
Expanded Programme, Biennale Venice
2022
Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz/LI
Petra Gut Contemporary, Zurich
2021
Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz/LI
Petra Gut Contemporary, Zurich
Petra Gut Contemporary, St. Moritz
eac. – Espace de l'Art Concret Mouans-Sartoux/FRA
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, New York
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/LI
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/LI
Galerie Marie-Louise Wirth, Hochfelden
2003
Galerie am Lindenplatz, Vaduz/LI
2002
Galerie Fischer, Luzern
2001
Musée Abbatiale de Payerne, Payerne
Yehudi Menuhin Festival, Gstaad