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Karina Wisniewska
1966 Born in Venice/Italy to Polish-Swiss parents. Moved to Switzerland following sojourns in Egypt, the USA and Berlin. Early discovery and fostering of musical and artistic gifts. Began piano lessons at the age of five and three-times prize-winner Swiss Young Musicians' Competition.
1992–2000 International concert career as soloist and chamber musician. Concert activities among others at the Lucerne International Festival of Music, the Wiener Festwochen, the Philharmony of Berlin, the Music Festival of Baden-Baden and the Saint Petersburg White Nights Festival. 1993 premiere of Rachmaninov’s First Piano Concerto in the original version, 1994 its first recording as a world premiere with the Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra under the conduction of Vladimir Fedosejev. 10 award-winning CD recordings, numerous international radio recordings and television appearances.
Since 1991 Author and Editor. Regular projects with various publishing houses and concert organizers as well as freelance contributions as a columnist for different culture magazines. Publication of music-philosophical essays (Benteli Verlag, Berne). Well-known on the lecture circuit, used to be a frequent guest at talk-shows broadcast by the Swiss Radio.
2000
Move to own studio in order to concentrate exclusively on painting.
Lives and works in Baden/Switzerland.
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
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
International Art Fairs
2008
Artefiera Bologna (Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts, Miami)
Art Karlsruhe (Galerie am Lindenplatz, Vaduz)
Art Dubai (Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts, Miami)
Seoul Art Fair Busan/South Korea (Cosmos Gallery, Seoul)
Scope New York (Sara Tecchia Roma New York, New York)
Circa, Puerto Rico (Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts, Miami)
Art Cologne (Sara Tecchia Roma New York, New York)
Scope Basle (Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts, Miami)
KIAF Seoul (Cosmos Gallery, Seoul)
ShContemporary, Shanghai/China (Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts, Miami)
2007
Art Basel Miami Beach (Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts, Miami)
Kunst 07 Zurich (Galerie am Lindenplatz, Vaduz)
Hong Kong International Contemporary Art Fair (Karin Weber Gallery, Hong Kong)
KIAF Seoul (Cosmos Gallery, Seoul)
Art Cologne (Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts, Miami & Galerie Michael Schultz, Berlin)
Gulf Art Fair Dubai (Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts, Miami)
Palm Beach Contemporary Art Fair, Miami (Bernd Lausberg Contemporary, Dusseldorf/Toronto)
2006
Art Basel Miami Beach (Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts, Miami)
Toronto Art Fair (Bernd Lausberg Contemporary, Dusseldorf/Toronto)
Kunst 06 Zurich (Galerie am Lindenplatz, Vaduz)
Art Cologne (Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts, Miami)
Art Singapore (Art-2 Gallery, Singapore)
Scope Hamptons, New York (Sara Tecchia Roma New York, New York)
2005
AAF Contemporary Art Fair New York City (Art Forum Ute Barth, Zurich)
Kunst 05 Zurich (Galerie Ueker&Ueker, Basle)
2004
Art Frankfurt (Galerie Artrepco, Zurich)
Kunst 04 Zurich (Galerie Artrepco, Zurich)
Solo Exhibitions
2009
Sara Tecchia Roma New York, New York/USA
C.A.M. Galeri, Istanbul/Turkey
Catherine Asquith Gallery, Melbourne/Australia
2008
Galerie Bergner + Job, Mainz/Germany
Galerie Renata Müller, Lucerne/Switzerland
Cosmos Gallery, Seoul/South Korea
Bernd Lausberg Contemporary, Dusseldorf/Germany
2007
Sara Tecchia Roma New York, New York/USA
Catherine Asquith Gallery, Melbourne/Australia
Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts, Miami/USA
Galerie Ueker&Ueker, Basle, Switzerland
2006
Karin Weber Gallery, Hong Kong
Galerie Elisabeth Costa, Pontresina/Switzerland
2005
Galerie Ueker & Ueker, Basle/Switzerland (with catalogue)
Karin Weber Gallery, Hong Kong
Galerie Christine Brügger, Berne/Switzerland
Galerie am Lindenplatz, Vaduz/Liechtenstein
2004
Galerie Artrepco, Zurich/Switzerland
2002
Galerie Christine Brügger, Berne/Switzerland
Galerie Artrepco, Zurich/Switzerland
2001
Galerie Fischer, Lucerne/Switzerland
Yehudi Menuhin Festival, Gstaad/Switzerland
Group Exhibitions
2008
Galerie Elisabeth Costa, Pontresina/Switzerland, with Matias Spescha, Not Vital and others
C.A.M. Galeri, Istanbul/Turkey
100 Tonson Gallery, Bangkok/Thailand
Galerie am Lindenplatz, Vaduz/Liechtenstein
Catherine Asquith Gallery, Sydney/Australia
2007
Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts, Miami/USA, with Shirely Kaneda, Pia Fries and Robert Rauschenberg
Bergner + Job Galerie, Mainz/Germany
Galerie Ueker & Ueker, Basle/Switzerland
Catherine Asquith Gallery, Melbourne/Australia
Bernd Lausberg Contemporary, Toronto/Canada
2006
Sara Tecchia Roma New York, New York/USA
Art Forum Ute Barth, Zurich/Switzerland
Galerie Bernd Lausberg, Dusseldorf/Germany
Galerie Ueker & Ueker, Basle/Switzerland
Künstlerhaus Solothurn/Switzerland
Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts, Miami/USA
Galerie Florian Trampler, Diessen/Germany
Catherine Asquith Gallery, Melbourne/Australia
2005
Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia/USA
Gallery Art-2, Singapore
Galerie am Lindenplatz, Vaduz/Liechtenstein, with Daniel Spoerri, Christian Megert and Herbert Albrecht
Art Forum Ute Barth, Zurich/Switzerland
Visarte Zurich, Swiss Visual Arts Association, Haus Metropol, Zurich/Switzerland (with catalogue)
Sara Tecchia Roma New York, New York/USA
2004
Galerie Marie-Louise Wirth, Hochfelden/Switzerland
2003
Galerie am Lindenplatz, Vaduz/Liechtenstein, with Max Bill and Gottfried Honegger
2002
Galerie Artrepco, Zurich/Switzerland
2001
Museum Abbatiale de Payerne/Switzerland, “Peinture et Musique”, with Kandinsky, Mirò, Hartung, Schwitters, Poliakoff (with catalogue)
Permanent Collections
Permanently represented through acquisition of work at the Museum Abbatiale de Payerne, Switzerland, at the Mezzanin Stiftung für Kunst, Schaan/Liechtenstein, in the UBS Art Collection and in well-known private art collections in Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Liechtenstein, the Netherlands, Japan and the USA.
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