About The Artist

Karina Laru-Naú (née Szafran) was born in Wroclaw/ Poland. Growing up in the suburbs of a big city, she learned to integrate the assorted cultural influences of her ancestors within the small family sphere and then moved on to gradually become an open-minded citizen of the world. At the age of 18, after graduating high school, she left Poland to begin Slavic studies in Salzburg. She has lived in Austria (Salzburg/Vienna/Carinthia) since 1981, where beside variously earning a living, including as interpreter for Russian, Polish and German, she has been immersed in diverse art trainings in Austria, Germany and Italy. Numerous travels, not only throughout Europe, but also in North and South America, as well as Asia, form a grand inspiration for her art. Her studies at the „Freie Akademie der Kunst und Philosophie“ in Klagenfurt/Carinthia have enriched her artistic path and confirmed the validity of her choice to be a freelance artist. Caught in time and space, mortality and memory – the human being is her focus. The human being, in all the myriad thoughts and deeds, within the stillness and the loudness of this world.