Karine Wagener

I am a French painter and I was born in Paris. I live and work there in my studio.

I trancribe subjects onto canvas or paper, not as they are, but as I see them : filled with optimism.

This translates into vibrant colors that evoke joyful emotions, but also into femininity at its most sensual, whose aesthetics roots lie in the cinema of the 1950s and 1960s, whose sets and costumes still fascinate me.

My creative process often begins with images gleaned from Elle magazine, which I have been reading since I was a teenager, from movies or from the internet.

I reframe them, reinterpret them, and transform them, often switching from black and white to color. Then, through a subtle interplay of light and shadow worked into glazes, I "sculpt" the color, giving shapes and volumes to the subjects.

So I elevate the world around me into my day life.

Something ordinary, what I see from a window, what's on my plate, but in which I can detect an elegance that triggers in me a nostalgic emotion for a time that I never knew. The desire to reinterpret it by giving it life and joy.

This mundane thing then becomes a subject in its own right, a unique center of interest.

My painting is a shoot of vitamin D, provided by the sun, an invitatio...

Karine WAGENER studied drawing and painting for 7 years in the Ateliers des Beaux Arts de Paris.

Chambres à Part October 2018 in Paris during the FIAC in Gallery Félix Vercel, exhibited with famous artists like Picasso, Rodin, Klein, Chagall, Amish Kapoor...

Solo show : “Féminités”, may 2019, Galerie Henri Collet, Paris.


Exhibition: “ Color Party” 22-27 October 2019, Galerie Beaurepaire in Paris.


Exhibition in Galerie des Peintres du Marais, Paris, March 2023, Paris


Exhibition in Galerie St Simon, Versailles June 2023



Exhibition in La Halle des Blancs Manteaux , Paris, October 2024


Exhibition Art Manet, France,
October 2025


Exhibition at the Galerie Kiff et Marais in Paris
February 2026


Upcoming exhibition in France, July 2026


Upcoming exhibition in Paris, October 2026


Upcoming exhibition in Paris, December 2026


Upcoming exhibition in France, January 2027