The painter Veronika Spleiss (*1993) creates painted worlds that evoke echoes of Hieronymus Bosch and Keith Haring while unfolding her own philosophical narratives. Over the years, she has developed a distinctive style she calls Narratio Graphica – an artistic language that unites graphic precision with narrative depth.

Her visual vocabulary employs abstract and geometric forms, strong contrasts, and an expressive palette of colors that condense into a unique harmony within each work. “In the abundance of details in her images, located somewhere between comic and Kandinsky, the viewer seems to lose themselves,” wrote Jürgen Moises in the Süddeutsche Zeitung.

Her works have been presented alongside those of renowned artists such as Henry Moore, Carole Feuerman and Markus Lüpertz. In the exhibition Nine Points of View at the OSTEN Museum and OSTEN Gallery in Skopje, her art entered into dialogue with Henry Moore. The opening speech described her as: “Veronika Spleiss, with her graphic, energetic forms, explores the human body with a playful, abstract energy that feels like a direct descendant of Moore’s own graphic work.”

Spleiss has exhibited in renowned galleries and at international art fairs in Germany, France, Italy, Switzerland, and the USA. She has been nominated for several awards, including the YAS Award 2020, the Renate Hendricks & Valentine Rothe Prize 2021, and the Kunstpreis Ampertal 2024. Works of her Narratio Graphica are held in private collections in Germany, France, Switzerland, Austria, Japan, and the USA.

The artworks of Veronika Spleiss unite color and form into a fascinating complexity that reveals the tension and diversity of life between order and chaos. Philosophically, her work embraces both the extraordinary and the everyday. Writer Frank Schablewski aptly described this abundance as “Unmenge.” Order and chaos – or Unmenge – may appear as opposites, yet they interlock and depend on one another.

On closer inspection, figures and actions emerge, inviting the viewer into environments where many things happen simultaneously. In this way, Spleiss highlights the complexity and contradictions of life, showing how every action has an impact on the larger whole. Her works break through the limited perspective of the individual and unfold a graphic multitude of viewpoints – echoing Friedrich Nietzsche’s idea that perspectivism is the “fundamental condition of all life.”

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