KARINA YACOUBIAN ARDUSSO | Biography
Karina is a visual artist whose abstract work explores the relationship between color and movement, alongside the balance of structure and freedom. Her compositions maintain a strong connection to the imaginary and the intuitive, unfolding at the intersection of geometry and gesture, order and emotion. From an early age, the artist showed a deep interest in drawing, art history, and architecture—three languages that continue to define her creative universe.
She studied Interior Design at ORT University in Montevideo, Uruguay, and later Architecture at the University of Belgrano in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Although academically trained in design and architecture, she is a self-taught painter, guided by curiosity, intuition, and a deeply personal sense of experimentation.
The artist has lived in Argentina, Mexico, and the United States. After returning to Uruguay, she participated in several architectural projects while developing her painting practice. In 2020, she relocated to Belgium to fully dedicate herself to her visual work.
Her early paintings reveal a strong influence of Abstract Expressionism—large-scale oil canvases where saturated colors coexist with an underlying geometric structure softened by fluid, organic lines.
In her recent works, gesture becomes matter and matter becomes language. Through a monochromatic palette, the artist explores the interplay of light, texture, and silence, constructing surfaces that seem to breathe. Folds and reliefs emerge as traces of movement and contained energy, suspended within the dialogue of the organic and the essential. Her practice engages with minimalism, material abstraction, and a poetic reflection on impermanence. In this convergence, the work transcends the physical to become a meditation on presence, transformation, and light as emotional space.
Her paintings are part of private collections in the United States, Italy, Belgium, Spain, Argentina, Colombia, Ecuador, and Uruguay.
"Visual thinking is, for me, a vital necessity. My work lives in an abstract universe where the guides of intuition are formed, and a moving minimalism transforms matter and silence into a language of its own.
Based on my architectural experience, I explore relief and folds not only as shapes, but as breathing surfaces. In my current practice, monochrome and texture converge to create spaces of stillness, where light reveals traces of contained energy.
These works do not seek to narrate; they invite a pause. Each piece is an autonomous form suspended between structure and emotion, an open presence that invites the viewer to inhabit it through his own gaze."
