Karina Fernandez
Biography
Karina Fernandez is a Vienna-based Argentine artist working at the intersection of material research, bio-based media, light, and installation. Her transdisciplinary practice addresses global issues such as environmental degradation and consumerism. Her installations often feature plants, fibers, light, water, sound, bioplastics, motors, and microcomputers where she explores bioplastics, organic residues, and ecological narratives, transforming fragile matter into sculptural and often luminous works that question extraction, decay, preservation, and speculative futures.
Karina Fernandez holds Fine Arts (1990) and Visual Arts (2003) Master degrees from UNA, Universidad de las Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina, and a Master in Digital Art from the Universität für Angewandte Kunst with Ruth Schnell in Vienna (2023).
Since 2001, she has participated in artistic projects and exhibitions in multimedia arts in Latvia, Germany, Croatia, China, Argentina, and Austria.
She has exhibited works at the Kunstlerhaus Museum (Vienna, 2013), the MAK (Museum für Angewandte Kunst) (Vienna, 2014/2015), and the Arsenale/Biennale d'arte di Venezia ("Biennale sessions", Venice, Italy, 2013).
Exhibitions
2026
- Leftbank Gallery
"Latinovision"
"It ain't no honey, babe" Wall installation
- AIL open lab (Angewandte Interdisciplinary Lab)
"House of Bioplastics"
Various works, exhibition & development
2025
- Stadtraum Mitte15
"Sediments of the now" Exhibition
"The Nes(x)t Evolution" Light installation
- ADA Space
"Schubladenarbeit" exhibition
"Melt Debris" Object
- Academy of Sciences, Budapest,
"Art4peace/70 years Hungary's membership in the UN
"Bon(e)fire", light installation
- Otto-Wagner Postsparkasse, Vienna
"Biodegradability is the new liquidity", site-specific installation
2024 - Eindorf Kunstraum, Vienna
“Bio-Diffractions”, various works, solo exhibition
2023 - Gallery Krinzinger Schottenfeld, Vienna
“Wasted Away” Installation, soluble sculpture, and soundscape
2017 - Exhibition Centre Heiligenkreuzerhof, Vienna
“Wasteland” Installation with soluble sculpture
2016 - Organhaus Galerie, Chongqing, China - "SM art C" exhibition
“Tea Service for a River” multimedia Installation
2015 - Augarten Museum, Vienna
2015 - MAK, Vienna
"Stoffwechsel" exhibition
“Vienesse nights” porcelain objects
2014 - "Dock now" exhibition, Donaukanal, Spittelau, Vienna
“Klangflut/Sound Tide” site-specific installation in public space
2013 - Biennale d'arte di Venezia/Arsenale - "Biennale Sessions",
"Vertical" exhibition
"Leak(c)age" site-specific, image&sound sculpture
2013 - Kunstlerhaus "Transit für Karl Aspern" exhibition, Vienna
"Convergence Line/Urban Tryptique", urban intervention
2011 - “Y/our space” exhibition, Vienna
“Fukuoka’s Dream/ This is War” multimedia,
interactive installation
2006 - “Art Camp Tarsa” exhibition, Rijeka, Croatia
“Chronicles of the Dismantling” and “Acquae Ombilicus”, urban interventions
2003/2001- "Potusignotus", Buenos Aires/München/Riga/Hamburg
Intercultural project, multimedia installation, website