Karina Wisniewska

Karina Wisniewska (born 1966, Venice) is an artist of Swiss-Polish origin. Since the end of her career as a classical pianist due to injury, she has concentrated on painting and photography. Studio residencies took her to New York and Hamburg for several years. She has received many awards for her performances and recordings, including the European Culture Prize, and her paintings and photographs are represented in galleries, museums, and prestigious collections internationally. Karina Wisniewska addresses the primordial images and forms of nature, its energy and vibrations. She explores the world as an echo, as a resonating space. Releasing the form provides a glimpse of the abstract and thus an understanding of the essential. "We see something that appears to us as constant and solid – like a rotating wheel that melts into a solid surface. But when solid bodies become visible, it testifies to a way of seeing and thinking that stops the flow. Letting go of form enriches seeing with new dimensions. The image is moved, it flows and expands, breathes, creates resonance. It conquers space and obeys its own laws in the balance of stillness and movement." (Karina Wisniewska)