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Bio
Vanessa Wenwieser is an artist, born in Munich, Germany, who has achieved a Fine Art photography degree at the Glasgow School of Art and graduated with a Bachelors Degree with Honours.
Her artworks have been widely exhibited in 2022, virtually with groups and in several physical exhibitions: the Marvelous Art Gallery; Holy Art Gallery; Capital Culture House; Florence Contemporary Gallery; and the Kuvid Gallery; she has had a virtual solo show “Midnight in the garden of good and evil” in Oct 2022.
In 2023, she participated in a virtual group exhibition in Barcelona, organised by the M.A.D.S gallery and a physical group show at “Surreal Salon 15” in the Baton Rouge Gallery, Louisiana.
In the spring, she participated in the Holy Art Fair organised by the Holy Art Gallery; throughout May, she will be holding a virtual solo show,"Where the wild flowers grow” at the U1 gallery, based in Tokyo.
Vanessa is honoured to be artist resident at the Boomer Gallery and will permanently exhibit there for the entire year.
In the summer, she will be exhibiting on Broadway Plaza, in New York; this project will be displayed on digital screens onto pedestrian plazas.
She will be exhibiting in July, in Amsterdam, Brussels, Paris and then in New York in October, and there, she will take part in another group show called “Ideas Empire” in September.
Her artworks have been included in several books; firstly, by the Marvelous Art Gallery and in Sinead McGuigan’s collection of poems called “Unbound”.
Her work has been extensively published in magazines: Aesthetica Magazine, The Flux Review, The Circle Quarterly Art Review, Marvelous Art Gallery Magazine, 365 art plus and the Goddess Magazine.
She has also received five art prizes:
Three from Artrepreneur’s open calls; one from Capital Culture House and one from Mozaik Philanthropy.
Statement
Throughout Vanessa’s artwork she allows the female figure to blossom, to transform, to shine within the darkness or floating in a sea of flowers. She shows how beauty and strength can be present in the most delicate forms.
In the series ‘Nocturnal Gestures’, Vanessa uses painterly and gestural devices to abstract the image and using monotone red colour, giving it a cocooned and emotional response. It feels we are there with the subject and up close and personal. Nothing else matters in the world, times stands still and one is transfixed by the beauty and the delicate symbols these hands appear to be painting in the red mist of blossoms.
In the red and green artworks, Vanessa manipulates these complementary colours to illuminate the darkness. The green represents the physical part and the red is the metaphysical and Vanessa tries to digitally paint what is fleeting and ephemeral, be it a glow, a vibe or thoughts and wings, in order to try describe what is not really there and what can just be imagined or felt.
Vanessa’s images are transformative and evanescent; describing the innermost emotions that feel like the flicker of ember in the darkness of night, they dance in beautiful tones of red and then are gone.
They speak of life, the cycle of life and the eclipsing of time and the appearance and then disappearance of delicate objects….either way, always that moment before metamorphosing or blossoming.
She expresses hopes and dreams, time standing still and thoughts spiralling round and round, of visions and reflections dancing in circles and then dissolving into nothingness, into the darkness where they came from. They are magical, beautiful and only half of this world. Blossoms in the night.
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