Karina Bisch is born in Paris in 1974 where she lives and works.

After studies at Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-arts in Paris and Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, in Amsterdam, Karina Bisch has developped a unique artistic vocabulary using numerous references to geometrical art but also to fashion and danse, formulating a particular sensibility to modernity.

The artist examines very closely the aesthetic of the historical avant-gardes. Then she deforms it and adapts it regarding the necessity.Throught her works and performances -sometimes in a theatrical way- Karina Bisch, who is alsway irreverent and pragmatic re-enact the XXth century diverting the presumed universality of modernism models.

Karina Bisch
Born in Paris in 1974, where she works and lives.


EDUCATION

2000
DNSAP, Ecole Nationale SUpérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris

1996
Maîtrise d'Arts Plastiques, Université Paris 1, Paris

SOLO SHOWS

2019
Amours, Le DÔ Surprenantes et Le Voyage à Nantes, Nantes

2018
Les Figures et Les Formes, Galerie Thomas Bernard, Paris
Exercices_Danse des bâtons, Galerie Thomas Bernard, Paris

2017
Les Tableaux Vivants, Centre d'art de l'Onde, Vélizy-Villacoublay

2016
La Tête dans la couleur, Palette Terre, Paris

2015
La Boutique Painting For Living, Made in Town, Paris
Comedie Moderne, Futura, Prague
Arlequine, Galerie des Galeries, Paris
Les Yeux Phosphores, with Nicolas Chardon, Galerie Art & Essai, Rennes

2014
Painting for Living, La Vitrine de La Galerie des Galeries, Paris
Painting for Living, La Vitrine de l'Antenne, FRAC IDF, Paris
Le Style, avec Nicolas Chardon, PS, Amsterdam

2013
Le Témoin, Biennale de Kaunas, Kaunas, Lithuanie
La Moderne, Hilary Crisp gallery, London

2011
Cache-cache, Nosbaum & Reding Gallery, Luxembourg
Pattern, DISPLAY art pojects, Paris

2009
Chiaro di Luna, Fluxia gallery, Milan

2008
Mathematicus Groteske, avec Vier5, FRAC Aquitaine, Bordeaux

2007
Our only goal is the future, L'Atelier c/o Galerie Jean Brolly, Paris

2006
Atelier 1, Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam
Original, Konsortium, Düsseldorf
Designs for living, PS, Amsterdam
Ersatzstadt, Nosbaum & Reding, Luxembourg

2005
Amours modernes, Galerie Dépendance, Bruxelles
Geometric final fantasy, CREDAC, Ivry-sur-Seine

2003
Balade, Galerie Les Filles du Calvaire, Bruxelles

2002
Karina Bisch, Essor Gallery, Londres

2001
Monumental, Galerie Les filles du Calvaire, Paris

GROUP SHOWS

2019
PS 1999/2019 - A 20 years anniversary exhibition, Amsterdam
See you after the revolution! The exhibition on the 100th anniversary of Bauhaus, Arsenal Gallery, Bialystock, Poland
Foncteur d'oubli, commissariat de Benoît Maire, Le Plateau, Frac Ile-de-France, Paris
Masterpieces, Galerie Thomas Bernard - Cortex Athletico
26x Bauhaus, French Instituts of Berlin, Brême, Munich, Mainz and Bonn, Germany
PopCorn, curator Simon Rayssac, Galerie Eponyme, Bordeaux
Lignes de vie - une exposition de légendes, MAC VAL, Musée d'art contemporain du Val-de-Marne, Vitry-sur-Seine
Bandes à part, Musée Régional d'Art Contemporain, Sérigna

2018
Sie ist die Zukunft / She is the future, Kunstverein Langenhhagen, Langenhagen, Germany
Danse des bâtons, projection, Centre d'Art Contemporain, Chanot, Clamart
Bandes à part, Musée Régional d'Art Contemporain, Sérignan
Construire une collection, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Rennes
De fils ou de fibres, Abbaye Saint André - Centre d'art contemporain, Meymac
MURALNOMAD, Le Quadrilatère, Beauvais
De Formes, Galerie 65 ESADHaR, Le Havre
A Collection, black and white landscapes, Gesellschaft für Kunst und Gestaltung, Bonn
Préléminaire, Studios of Karina Bisch & nicolas Chardon, Les Essarts-le-Roi, France

2017
Collectionner le désir inachevé, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Angers
Coup de foudre, Maison van Doesburg, Meudon
L'Ecart absolu, Le Quadrilatère, Beauvais

2016
Tableau Meuble, with Nicolas Chardon, Galerie Bouvier Le Ny, Paris
Flatland/Abstractions narratives #1, MRAC Sérignan
L'esprit du Bauhaus, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris
Oublier l'architecture, CIAP, Vassivière
When will be little again ?, Cricoteka, Cracovie
La maison cherche un amiral à louer, MNAC, Bucarest
When friendship becomes art, Galerie van Gelder, Amsterdam
La ville au loin, Les Turbulences-Frac Centre, Orléans
Périls from the sea, Acte 2, 3 et 4, Les Abords, Brest & DOC, Paris

2015
Et nous voici plus bas et plus haut que jamais, Chiso Gallery, Kyoto
Triennale de l'Art imprimé Contemporain, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Le Locle
Taverna, Fraternita dei Laici, Arezzo

2014
Accrochage des collections contemporaines, Salles 15, MAMVP, Paris
Wild Patterns, Galerie van Gelder gallery, Amsterdam

2013
Biennale d'Art Contemporain d'Anglet, Anglet
De Puristes et de Fauves, Shanaynay, Paris

2012
La demeure joyeuse II, Galerie Francesca Pia, Zürich
Karina Bisch, Yelena Popova, Mary Simpson, Hilary Crisp gallery, Londres
Coeur de silex, La Galerie, Noisy-le-Sec

2011
Historia Mysteria, Renwick Gallery, New York
Collector Tri Postal, Lille
Tableaux, Le Magasin, Grenoble
Tout ce que vous avez toujours voulu savoir (...), FRAC Aquitaine, Bordeaux

2010
Twisted Cube, Le Vent des Forêts, Meuse
Almeria, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris
Aires de jeux, Centre d'art de l'Onde, Vélizy
Seconde Main, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris

2009
L'image cabrée / 11ème Prix Ricard, Fondation d'entreprise Ricard, Paris
Vies imaginaires, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris
La collection du XXème, La Vitrine, Paris

2008
Yo Mo' Modernism, CCNOA, Bruxelles
+ de réalité, Le hangar à bananes, Nantes
Ultramoderne, CAC La Passerelle, Brest

PERFORMANCES
2017
Le Témoin, Le Quadrilatère, Beauvais
Les Vêtements, La Quadrilatère, Beauvais

2016
Le Témoin (extrait), MNAC, Bucarest

2014
Painting for Living in my living-room, La Vitrine, Paris
    
2013
Le Témoin, Nomas Foundation & Teatro Valle, Rome

2011
KIOSK, avec Thomas Clerc, Fondation Ricard, Paris
Ca c'est Paris !, David Roberts Art Foundation, Londres
Simultanées, Le Magasin, Grenoble
Ca c'est Paris !, Kaleidoscope Arena, Rome
Ode au I, L40, Berlin

2010
Exercice, Fluxia Gallery, Milan
Tatlina, Centre d'art de l'Onde, Vélizy

2009
Tea_Modern_Time, La Vitrine, Paris

2008
It's a question of time, FRAC Aquitaine, Bordeaux

AWARD
2000
USB Art Award, National winner France



RESIDENCIES
2007
La Box, Bourges

2005-2006
Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam



PUBLIC COMMISSION
2013
KIOSK, GrandLyonHabitat + CNAP, Lyon 8ème

COLLECTIONS
West Collection, USA
Fonds National d'Art Contemporain
Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
Fonds Municipal de la Ville de Paris
FRAC Aquitaine
FRAC Ile-de-France
FRAC Franche-Comté
FRAC Pays de la Loire

For almost 20 years, I have developed a practice of painting that has gradually opened up to very diverse fields, from performance to monumental sculpture, from painting on silk to installation. Using various bases and developing reuse, assemblages and formal confrontations, I wish to show how the modern project resists in the body and materiality of its own representations. As the result of an intense activity as an iconographer, my work is based on an open practice of the form, quite the opposite of a nostalgic or referential re-reading, enabling the free exercise of the most unexpected visual combinations. The idea is for me to materialise images, literally making them concrete. Started in 1998, mainly through the practice of painting, my work gradually has become more characteristic, more specifically in recent years, with a large variety of means in play. 

Fuelled by more and more in-depth research, namely in connexion with the historical avant-garde, my painting work has moved outside of the frame to accompany in practice the confrontation of images and their models, or rather their reactivations. Classification and collage could be seen as the main guiding lines of my work, the drive of this protean activity that merrily defies categories, mediums, styles and genres. I am nevertheless a painter, including when I find myself on stage for example. A direct link connects a patchwork wall hanging to a multi-coloured suit, a set of silk scarves to a monumental décor. Beyond the painted images brought to light, it is this unifying pictorial link that I would like to make visible, through an effort of synthesis.

Painting would be the way to make synthesis possible.

Synthesis would be the way to make painting visible.

KB