Karin Ferrari (*1982 in Meran, Italy) lives and works in Vienna. Karin Ferrari studied cultural studies and painting at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. She uses images and symbols from everyday and popular culture to examine the present. She's particularly interested in hidden desire, that are actually of spiritual nature that operate within consumer capitalism, technology and our built environment. She works across a wide range of media.
Read MoreFerrari's work has been exhibited internationally at venues such as Museion for Contemporary Art Bolzano, the 8th Floor/ The Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation in New York City, Belvedere 21 – Museum for Contemporary Art Vienna, Art Omi Open Studios in Ghent, New York, the Allard Pierson Museum in Amsterdam, WRO 19th Media Biennale Wroclaw Poland, Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum Innsbruck, Künstlerhaus Bregenz, the Antarctic Biennale 2017, The Wrong – Digital Art Biennale 2017, the 5th Moscow Biennial for Young Art 2016, the Royal Military Museum Brussels, Videotage in Hong Kong, and on the online platform Arte Creative (Germany – France). Her works have been broadcasted on ARTE and the Austrian national TV channel ORF III.
In 2020, Ferrari received the Austrian state grant for media art from the Federal Ministry of the Republic of Austria. She also received the artist prize of the city of Innsbruck in 2020, the Benno Barth Award in 2019, and was the main winner of the RLB Art Award in 2018. In 2021, she won the prize of Land Niederösterreich in the Austrian competition for graphics art for her woodcut 'Chiro Digitalis'. Over the past few years, Karin Ferrari had many artist residencies in the USA, Europe, and Southeast Asia such as 2023 AIR Krinzinger in Kuberton Kroatia, 2018 Art Omi International Artists Residency, Ghent, New York and BMKÖS Artist in Residencies in Yogyakarta and Paris.
