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Karin Weber Gallery
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20 Aberdeen Street,
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Karina WISNIEMSKA biography | artworks | events

Born in Venice to Polish-Swiss parents in 1966. Had established an international career as a concert pianist with numerous CD recordings, numerous radio recordings and television appearances.


These works made of acrylic lacquer and quartz sand on canvas show two visions of very different worlds. One is open and fresh, with lines—sometimes tangled, sometimes free—dancing or gliding across the picture plane in a lively spontaneous manner. In these works, we see Wisniewska’s free-flowing imagination as she realizes moments of quirky lyricism within still worlds. In such work one recalls the art of the American painter Cy Twombly through which the viewer comes face to face with the daunting complexity of an apparently simple grouping of lines.


The other vision is one of a sheer minimal intensity of color and line trapped within small areas of canvas that seem to overflow with the dynamic of suddenly uncorked emotions. Here there is a more forceful, subtle, and lyrical imagination at work where the keen abstraction achieved slowly draws in the viewer, demanding that these works be seen and felt rather than merely looked at. One is reminded of the quiet of emotion to be found in the work of Agnes Martin.


Education
Academy of Art, Zurich/Switzerland
University of Berne/Switzerland
University of Salzburg/Austria
Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts “Mozarteum”, Salzburg/Austria
Academy of Music and Theatre, Berne/Switzerland


Exhibitions
2008
Galerie Bergner + Job, Mainz/Germany
Cosmos Gallery, Seoul/South Korea
Octavia Gallery, New Orleans/USA
Sara Tecchia Roma New York, New York/USA
2007
Gallery Sara Tecchia Roma New York, New York (solo)
Gallery Catherine Asquith, Melbourne/Australia (solo)
Galerie Ueker & Ueker, Basle/Switzerland (solo)
2006
Gallery Elisabeth Costa, Pontresina/Switzerland (solo)
Art Innsbruck, Austria (Galerie Am Lindenplatz, Vaduz/FL)
Inner and Outer Landscapes (Karin Weber Gallery, Hong Kong)
Hong Kong Art Walk (Karin Weber Gallery, Hong Kong)
Gallery Sara Tecchia Roma New York, New York
Art Forum Ute Barth, Zurich, with drawings by Paul Hindemith, courtesy of the Hindemith Institute, Frankfurt/Germany
Gallery Nev, Istanbul/Turkey
Gallery Wack, Kaiserslautern/Germany
Gallery Lausberg, Düsseldorf/Germany
2005
Art Innsbruck, Austria, with Special Show (Galerie Am Lindenplatz, Vaduz/FL)
Haus der Kunst – Galerie Marc Geiler in Kehl/Germany
Gallery Pentimenti, Philadelphia/USA, chosen artists from Art Forum Ute Barth, Zurich
Gallery Art-2 in Singapore
art bodensee, Dornbirn, Austria (Galerie c.art, Dornbirn/Austria)
Galerie Am Lindenplatz in Vaduz, Liechtenstein, with Daniel Spoerri, Christian Megert and Herbert Albrecht
Jubilee 10 Years Art Forum Ute Barth, Zurich
Gallery Karin Weber in Hongkong (solo)
Galerie Christine Brügger, Berne (solo)
Galerie Am Lindenplatz in Vaduz, Liechtenstein (solo)
Galerie Ueker & Ueker, Basle (with catalogue) (solo)
2004
Galerie Artrepco, Zurich (solo)
Exhibition together with works by Max Bill and Gottfried Honegger at Galerie Am Lindenplatz in Vaduz, Liechtenstein
art frankfurt, Germany
art bodensee, Dornbirn, Austria (Galerie c.art, Dornbirn/Austria)
Gallery Marie-Louise Wirth, Hochfelden/Switzerland
Galerie Artrepco, Zurich (solo)
2002
Galerie Christine Brügger, Berne (solo)
2001
Galerie Fischer, Lucerne/Switzerland (solo)
Yedhudi Menuhin Festival, Gstaad/Switzerland (solo)
International group exhibition “Peinture et Musique” at the Museum Abbatiale, Payerne, Switzerland, alongside painters such as Kandinsky, Mirò, Hartung, Schwitters and Poliakoff (selection by jury), with catalogue.


Awards
1998
Inaugural prize-winner, Armand von Ernst Banquiers Foundation, Berne/Switzerland
1997
European Culture Prize, Venice/Italy, under the patronate of the European Council and the European Parliament
1997
Swiss Musician of the Year, Geneva/Switzerland, under the patronate of OMEGA
1991
UBS Jubilee Foundation Award, Zurich/Switzerland
1988
Kiefer Hablitzel Foundation Award, Berne/Switzerland
1986
Othmar Schoeck Award, Biel/Switzerland

 

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