About the artist

As a multi-disciplinary artist, Karina Bergmans works in sculpture, installation, performance, public art and public interventions. By converging the themes of communication and the body, she creates cross disciplinary installations merging art and science. Themes in her work are based on our collective experiences of language, communication, text and play. An installation of inflatable sculptures entitled Airborne Allergens/Allergènes Aéroportés was presented at Art-Image in Gatineau in 2016. Large scale textile organs converged with disease words, Ligaments and Ligatures, was shown at Estevan Art Gallery and Museum (Estevan SK, 2020), Ottawa’s City Hall Art Gallery and Edmonton’s Harcourt House (2013). Bergmans’ work has been exhibited at the Ontario Science Centre, Fieldwork, Perth, ON, the Mississippi Mills Textile Museum, Almonte, ON, Stride Gallery +15 Window Space, Calgary, AM, the Montreal Centre for Contemporary Textiles, the Dumbo Arts Festival, Brooklyn. Karina has participated in residencies at the Banff Centre and the Moon Rain Textile Bienniel, Val-des-Monts, QC. She has received grants from the Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council and the City of Ottawa. Bergmans’ work has been featured in the Vies des Arts (Quebec), the Canadian Medical Association Journal, Ottawa Magazine Art of Fashion issue and FibreArts. Karina resides in Ottawa, Ontario.

Image: Karina Bergmans, Yay Hay (2021), Installation view: Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost, Contemporary Art Forum Kitchener + Area (CAFKA) 2021. Photo: David Botros.