When Karina Retuert finished her Graphic Design Career in 2001, she could not imagine that after dedicating 15 years to her designer career, she would spend most of her days facing the challenge of a canvas, with paint brushes in her hand and completely devoted to the process.

Let’s move 4 years forward. Karina is in Mannheim, Germany, and art, an isolated inquisitiveness until then, has become a necessary echo.

Her connection to the art is very emotional and spontaneous. There is nothing planned, no drawing, only the encounter with the white, empty canvas and the need to express her feelings in colors. That freedom marks her artwork. It transfers us to everyday images, but seen from another point of view, so that we can see them as other spaces.

Restlessness then becomes real interest and the courses she takes in Germany help her to focus on her artistic journey. On her return to Chile in 2006, she continues her artistic career and sets the solo exhibition “Atmospheres” in Vandorp gallery and part of the collective exhibition, “A window to diversity” in the GIZ gallery. 

In 2014 she arrives in Mexico and longs not only for the ocean, the mountains and the fusion of Chilean landscapes, but also for the sadness felt in Germany and the lineal esthetic from that country. That joined to the present of an explosive Mexico, intense in colors and contrasts. Her artwork becomes a constant dialogue between past and present, between calmness of the ocean and darkness of the stormy clouds, between colors that mix and collide at the same time.

Karina currently resides in Bangkok, Thailand where she continues with her artistic work, embedding in a diametrically different culture and inspired by new colors and urban and natural intensities.