
karin averkin

bio
I am a Geneva-based visual artist working in collage, mixed media, ink, acrylic and photography. My practice interrogates the boundaries between nature and architecture—investigating how organic growth asserts itself within constructed form, and how rigid structures attempt to contain fluidity.
artist statement
My work confronts the unstable boundary between nature and architecture. I am interested in what happens when structure begins to erode — when rigid systems meet organic force.
Using collage, I develop an archaeology of public space working with recovered fragments from my surroundings such as posters and advertisements. These materials carry cultural memory. Once tools of communication and consumption, they are dismantled and rebuilt into new spatial tensions where past and present collide.
In ink and acrylic, the process shifts. Gesture replaces control. Emotion leaves direct traces on the surface. These works emerge through impulse, allowing vulnerability and intensity to remain visible.
Nature, for me, is both landscape and metaphor — a reflection of human resilience, vulnerability, and transformation. Through the interplay of structure and fluidity, my compositions seek to invite contemplation and encourage a conscious focus on beauty, balance, and positive forces within our environments and ourselves.
Across mediums, my work negotiates construction and collapse, order and growth, structure and freedom.
artistic training
2025 - 2026
2023 + 2024
2022 + 2018
2021+2017
2020
2017
1998-2016
1998-2002
Art Residency at Casa lü in Mexico City
the courage to express yourself - Petra Ehrnsperger – Germany
painting and collage + large formats - Stephan Geisler - Kunstakademie BadReichenhall – Germany
authentic expression - Alexander Jeanmaire - Bodensee, Germany
crossover – Rainer Kaiser – Freie Kunstakademie Augsburg, Germany
jewels of consciousness – Alex Grey & Allyson Grey – Basel, Switzerland
various workshops - Gilbert Mazliah - Geneva, Switzerland
interior architecture - Geneva, Switzerland
exhibitions
group exhibitions
2013 ( january + april)
2009
2003
2002
1999
1999
Swiss Art Space, Lausanne, Switzerland
Carrousel du Louvre, Paris, France
portes ouvertes- atelier Hermes, Geneva, Switzerland
Stufenbau, Bern - Switzerland
Château de Genthod - Switzerland
Usine de Sécheron, Geneva, Switzerland
solo exhibitions
2026
2009
2009
CDMX - Tlalpan Casa Lü
Cern - Geneva , Switzerland
Galerie Athenaeum, Founex, near Geneva, Switzerland