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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

© 2025 by karin averkin

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