Vanessa Wenwieser - Germany
ABOUT Vanessa Wenwieser…
Vanessa Wenwieser, a digital media artist born in Munich, Germany, holds a BA (Hons) in Fine Art Photography from the Glasgow School of Art.
“Throughout Vanessa’s artworks, 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, time 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 her red and green artworks, Vanessa manipulates these complementary colours to illuminate the darkness. The green represents the physical part, 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 describing 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.
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.”
Her artworks have been widely exhibited in 2023; virtually with groups and in several physical exhibitions:
The Marvelous Art Gallery; Holy Art Gallery; Capital Culture House; Florence Contemporary Gallery; the Kuvid Gallery; a virtual group exhibition in Barcelona, organised by the M.A.D.S gallery; a physical group show at “Surreal Salon 15” in the Baton Rouge Gallery, Louisiana, and in a virtual solo show at the U1 gallery, Tokyo. She is honoured to be the resident artist at the Boomer Gallery in London, exhibiting there for the entire year. She exhibited on Broadway Plaza, New York; this project was displayed on digital screens onto pedestrian plazas. In July, further exhibitions occurred in Amsterdam, Brussels, Paris, Milan and then in New York in September and October. Her artwork has been displayed in the Zürich main train station by SWISSARTEXPO 2023 in Sept. and then another space outwith a gallery, as a poster in the London Underground.
Her artworks have been included in several books; firstly, by the Marvelous Art Gallery and in Sinead McGuigan’s collection of poems “Unbound”. Her work has also been extensively published in magazines: Aesthetica Magazine, The Flux Review, The Circle Quarterly Art Review, Marvelous Art Gallery Magazine and the Goddess Magazine. She has also received several art prizes; most notably from Artrepreneur, Capital Culture House and Mozaik Philanthropy.
