Passages presents Casa Karina, a solo exhibition by Karina Bisch — a French painter born in 1974 — from January 17 to April 18, 2026.
The title of the exhibition evokes the boutique that the artist Sonia Delaunay opened in Madrid in the late 1910s, Casa Sonia. She is also the one who said that “if painting entered everyday life, it is because women wore it on themselves.”
Since the 1990s, Karina Bisch has been developing a practice full of homage and joy — a form of recognition without nostalgia — freeing herself from models and forming free associations across her references. In doing so, she seeks to “soften the hard edges between art, craft, and life.”
By transforming Passages into her Casa Karina, she carries painting across all supports and into every corner: on canvases, of course, but also on vases, chair-tables, a carpet, patchworks, cut-and-pasted wallpapers, lamps, a small hut, the walls…
Around thirty works, created for the exhibition or earlier, unfold throughout the spaces of Passages.
For the artist, the exhibition is a way of shifting the work of the studio into the architecture of the art center, transposing into it her palette of radiant colors.
Painting everywhere, painting as one lives — humbly — playing with the repertoire of forms inherited from the standards of modernism, from her memories, and from popular culture: Karina Bisch leads us along with her, with “painting that speaks, that dances, that laughs, that has a body.”