About Veronika Spleiss
The German artist Veronika Spleiss, born 1993 in Tallinn, whose roots lie in Estonia and Russia, has been working with visual fine arts for more than fifteen years. During many years of lessons with the artist Natalia Zurakowska, she learned the techniques of painting, graphics and illustration. After studying French and Russian literature as well as political theory in Munich, Clermont-Ferrand and Passau (M.A.), she turned her attention to artistic creation completely. Veronika Spleiss lives and works in Bonn and Munich.
The first glance at her artistic work is an intoxicating celebration of shapes and colors, whose only unifying feature is the black outline of the paintings. At second glance, however, white and colorful fragments reveal associative, concise forms of reality - and, on a meta-level, their stories.
The paintings are in the obvious sign of chaos, but they have an inherent order and harmony that only emerges on further contemplative viewing. So it is with life itself. If life can all too often appear chaotic, it has its structures in all its facets and perspectives. The paintings of the artist Veronika Spleiss illustrate this process in a two-dimensional graphic style, but due to their variety of forms they stand for a multi-perspective opening to life.
In the spirit of Friedrich Nietzsche, the aspect of perspective is shown as the "basic condition of all life" (JGB, KSA 5, p. 12). Because life encompasses a whole. But man himself has no access to it. The living person is always bound to its own perspective and view of the world, which has a certain order of its own. The artist plays with these aspects. What's more, she tries to visualize life graphically in its versatile perspectives. For the viewer, this primarily means chaos - a supposedly chaotic combination of different points of view that emerge from black or rather nothingness. Each particle, each geometric form stands on its own, but approaches the other forms and thus establishes a necessary connection. In the end, the work becomes a panorama of a city, a combination of houses, people, stairs with their own order: an order of perspectives. Veronika Spleiss summarizes these aspects of her unique style in the term Narratio Graphica, which she coined.
All works by Veronika Spleiss form a visual story. Further the artist writes down her thoughts and ideas about each work.
Visuality and literature come together.
Spleiss has exhibited in multiple exhibtions and international artfairs in Germany, Switzerland and the USA. Among others, her works are also in a permanent collection at the Hunderwasser House "Grüne Zitadelle" in Magdeburg, Germany. She was nominated for two Art Prizes, such as YAS Award 2020 and Renate Hendricks & Valentine Rothe Prize. Her art can be found in private collections all over the world such as Japan, France, Switzerland, Germany, Austria and the USA.
Prizes:
2024 Kunspreis Ampertal - Nominated, Allershausen & Zolling, Germany
2021 Renate Hendricks & Valentine Rothe Preis - Nominated - Bonn, Germany
2020 YAS Award 2020 - Nominated - Magdeburg, Germany
Memberships:
GEDOK Munich e.V.
KUN:ST International e. V.
Artgalleries:
Galerie Klose, Essen, Germany; justBEE Gallery, Elsass, France; Singulart, Online Gallery Paris, France; Galerie Kubik, Munich, Germany; Hundertwasser House "Grüne Zitadelle" Magdeburg, Germany; Charter Project Gallery, Leipzig, Germany
Art Fairs:
Art Karlsruhe, Affordable Art Fair Hamburg, Affordable Art Fai Milan, Kunst Mitte Magdeburg, Holstenart Neumünster, Arte Kunstmesse Dortmund, Contemporary Art Ruhr Essen, Red Dot Miami, Stroke Art Fair Munich, Artmuc Munich, Artfair Mannheim, Art Expo New York, Swiss Art Expo Zurich, Frauenmuseum Bonn
Passed and coming Exhibitions national / international:
Munich, Passau, Kulmbach, Wasserburg am Inn, Neumünster, Essen, Hamburg, Leipzig, Zürich, Murten, Miami, Milan, New York, Mannheim, Magdeburg, Masevaux, Mülheim an der Ruhr, Neumünster, Venice, Rheda-Wiedenbrück, Dortmund, Steinfurt, Hannover, Karlsruhe
All Exhibitions
2025
November 2024 – February 2025: Solo Exhibition LEBEN IN SPANNUNG & VIELFALT (Life in Tension &
Diversity), Charter Projektgalerie, Leipzig
November 2024 – January 2025: Exhibition SIGHTZEICHEN 2024 (Signs of Sight), Galerie Klose,
Essen
January – March 2025: Art Prize Ampertal, Zolling
March – May 2025: Group Exhibition SO SCHAFFE ICH FRIEDEN (This Is How I Create Peace), Galerie im Haus
Samson, Herzebrock-Clarholz
April: Artbox Expo New York at Art Expo New York, USA
April: Group Exhibition Artbox, Andakulova Gallery, Dubai
June – July: Group Exhibition COLORS UNLEASHED, Casa del Arte, Mallorca, Spain
July – August: Group Exhibition TASTE IT, Galerie Klose, Essen
August: KUNST MITTE with Philipp Liehr & Christoph Bäuml, Galerie Kubik, Magdeburg
September: Group Exhibition 80 Jahre Osten Art (80 Years of Osten Art), Osten Gallery and Osten
Museum, Skopje, North Macedonia
Since November 2024: Permanent Exhibition, Praxis am Scharpenberg, Mülheim an der Ruhr
Further Exhibitions
2024
February: Art Fair ART KARLSRUHE with Kunst:International, Karlsruhe, Germany
April: GEDOK Exhibition THE PRESENCE AND THE VOID, GEDOK München e.V., Munich
Exhibition artbox.project Venezia 2.0, Cipriarte Gallery, Venice, Italy
May: Group Exhibition HONIGSCHLEUDER ("Honey Extractor"), tafolab e.V. and Atelier Hamann, Hanover
July / August: Exhibition SO SCHAFFE ICH FRIEDEN ("This Is How I Create Peace"), Schloss Burgsteinfurt, Steinfurt
August: KUNST MITTE Art Fair with Philipp Liehr & Christoph Bäuml, Galerie Kubik, Magdeburg
October: Exhibition FACES BEHIND ART, Galerie Klose, Essen
November: ARTE Art Fair Dortmund with Galerie Klose, Dortmund
Since November: Permanent Exhibition, Praxis am Scharpenberg, Mülheim an der Ruhr
November 2024 – January 2025: Exhibition SIGHTZEICHEN 2024, Galerie Klose, Essen
November 2024 – February 2025: Solo Exhibition LEBEN IN SPANNUNG & VIELFALT ("Life in Tension & Diversity"), Charter Projektgalerie, Leipzig
2023
January – June 2022: Permanent Exhibition in Hundertwasser House "Grüne Zitadelle", Magdeburg, Germany
November – January 2023: 30 Years Galerie Klose, Group Exhibition "WEGGEFÄHRTEN" (Companions), Galerie Klose, Essen
February / March: Group Exhibition "Selbstportraits" (Self-Portraits), Galerie Klose, Essen
March / April: Group Exhibition THE FEMALE SHOW – curated by Josephine Kaiser, Munich Art Gallery, Munich
April: Art Fair Holstenart, Neumünster
April: STROKE Art Fair, Praterinsel, Munich
July: Group Exhibition "VERFLOCHTENE WELTEN" (Interwoven Worlds), Galerie Klose, Essen
August: Exhibition "KUNSTFEST VOL III ARTificial INTELLIGENCE", Galerie Klose and Zeche3, Zeche Königin Elisabeth, Essen
August: KUNST/MITTE, Art Fair for Contemporary Art, Art Gallery Kubik with Philipp Liehr, Hazel Ang, Christoph Bäuml, Miriam Frank, Magdeburg
September / October / November: Group Exhibition "SO SCHAFFE ICH FRIEDEN" (This Is How I Create Peace), monastery Wiedenbrück
September: Group Exhibition "KUNSTSPUR" (Art Trace) in the studio of Jörg W. Schirmer, Essen
October: Contemporary ART RUHR (C.A.R) Innovative Art Fair, Juried Position of C.A.R. Talents, UNESCO World Heritage Zollverein, Essen
November / December: Group Exhibition "SIGHTZEICHEN 23" (Signs of Sight), Galerie Klose, Essen
2022
March: Exhibition "Frühlingsgefühle" (Spring Feelings) in the art gallery Galerie Klose, Essen, Germany
June: Group Exhibition #9 with the art gallery justBEE, Masevaux, France
August: Exhibition "Ansichtssache" (Matter of Opinion) – Art Festival in "Lohnhalle Vol. II" with the art gallery Galerie Klose, Essen
August: KUNST/MITTE, Art Fair for Contemporary Art with the art gallery justBEE, Magdeburg, Germany
October: Art Fair Artmuc with Kunst.International, Munich, Germany
October: Double Exhibition "Gegenständliche Gegensätze" (Figurative Contrasts), Veronika Spleiss and Robert Schätz, Galerie Klose, Essen, Germany
October: Contemporary ART RUHR (C.A.R) Innovative Art Fair, juried position under C.A.R. Talents, UNESCO World Heritage Zollverein, Essen, Germany
November: Affordable Art Fair Hamburg with the art gallery justBEE, Hamburg, Germany
November: 30 Years Galerie Klose, Group Exhibition "Weggefährten" (Companions), Galerie Klose, Essen, Germany
December: Art Fair Red Dot Miami with Kunst.International, "Miami Sunshine 2022", Miami, USA
Permanent Exhibition: Hundertwasser House "Grüne Zitadelle", Magdeburg, Germany
2021
January: Online Exhibition "FMDK Kunstsalon 2020 – Gestern – Heute – Morgen" (Yesterday – Today – Tomorrow), Egyptian Museum, Munich
April: Solo Exhibition in the art gallery Marion Kotyba, Kulmbach (cancelled)
June: Group Exhibition "Die Neuen" (The New Ones), [KUN:ST] Quartier, Leonberg
August: Juried Exhibition GROSSE KUNSTAUSSTELLUNG (Great Art Exhibition) by AK68/Künstlergemeinschaft e.V., Galerie im Ganserhaus and Rathaus, Wasserburg am Inn
August: Group Exhibition "DenkMalGeschützt" (Protected Monument), with amiko art collective, Feierwerk Farbenladen, Munich
August: Art Fair KUNST/MITTE via art gallery justBEE, Magdeburg
October: STROKE Art Fair, Praterinsel, Munich
November: Group Exhibition "Die Geschichte der acht Hände" (The Story of Eight Hands) with Irina Lupyna, Evgenia Huber, Soussen and Veronika Spleiss, Kulturzentrum
Trudering, Munich
November: 26th Art Fair at the Women’s Museum (Frauenmuseum), Bonn – nominated for the Renate Hendricks & Valentine Rothe Art Prize
December: Art Fair Red Dot Miami with Kunst:International "Miami Sunshine 2021", Mana Wynwood Convention Center, Miami, USA (cancelled)
2020
February: Affordable Art Fair Milan with the art gallery Unique Contemporary Turin, Milan, Italy
March: Group Exhibition "Die Geschichte der zehn Hände" (The Story of Ten Hands) – Irina Lupyna, Veronika Spleiss, Evgenia Huber, Soussen, Ljuba Stille, Farbenladen
Feierwerk, Munich, Germany
March: STROKE Art Fair 2020, Munich, Germany (postponed to October 2021)
April: Art Expo New York "Harmony – David and Goliath", Kunst:International, New York, USA (postponed to October 2020)
April / May: Group Exhibition "Die Geschichte der acht Hände" (The Story of Eight Hands) – Irina Lupyna, Veronika Spleiss, Evgenia Huber, Soussen, Trudering
Kulturzentrum, Munich (postponed to October 2021)
May: Virtual Group Exhibition by CO.VI.3D GALLERY – Quarta Collettiva d’Arte “ArT HOME”, Creatives Spaces
July / August: Virtual Art Fair Mannheim by Prince House Gallery, Mannheim, Germany
August: Exhibition "Skulpturen-David-Goliath" (Sculptures: David & Goliath), [KUN:ST] Quartier, Leonberg, Germany
September: Art Fair KUNST/MITTE 2020, Magdeburg, Germany – nominated for the YAS Award 2020
September: Group Exhibition "Bilder einer Ausstellung" (Pictures from an Exhibition), Prince House Gallery, Mannheim, Germany
October: Group Exhibition "Die Geschichte der acht Hände" (The Story of Eight Hands) – Irina Lupyna, Veronika Spleiss, Evgenia Huber, Soussen, Moor-Villa Kulturzentrum,
Munich, Germany
2019
May: STROKE Art Fair – 10 Years Anniversary, Munich, Germany
June: Group Exhibition "Leto – Eine Sommerausstellung" (Leto – A Summer Exhibition), Wessling, Germany
July: Group Exhibition "Werkschau 2019", Kunstgalerie Marion Kotyba, Kulmbach, Germany
July: Artnight in Passau, "KUNSTNACHT", Passau, Germany
August: SWISSARTEXPO Art Fair, Zurich, Switzerland
September: Solo Exhibition Veronika Spleiss – "Follow the Black Lines", Contemporary Gallery CH, Murten, Switzerland
October: Group Exhibition "Small Artworks", Contemporary Gallery CH, Murten, Switzerland
December: Group Exhibition at Artbox Gallery during Art Basel weeks, Wynwood, Miami, USA
December – January: Group Exhibition "Bewegung" (Movement), Veronika Spleiss and Roger Brönnimann, Contemporary Gallery CH, Murten, Switzerland
2018
Solo Exhibition: "Der schwarzen Linie auf der Spur" (Tracing the Black Line), Pomeranz, Passau, Germany
Publications
2023 – C.A.R. Contemporary Art Ruhr Innovative Art Fair, catalogue
2023 – "So schaffe ich Frieden" Weltreise durch Wohnzimmer e.V., catalogue
2022 – Al-Tiba9 Contemp0rary Art Collectors’ Artbook, Interviews with Artists Vol. 1., book
2022 – L’Alsace, „Cinq artistes internationaux à la justBEE gallery“, newspaper article 10 June 2022
2022 – C.A.R Contemporary Art Ruhr Innovative Art Fair, catalogue
2022 – KUNST MITTE Messe für zeitgenössische Kunst Magdeburg , catalogue
2021 – GROSSE KUNSTAUSSTELLUNG 2021, Arbeitskreis 86, Rathaus Wasserburg, catalogue
2021 – 26. Kunstmesse im Frauenmuseum Bonn, book
2021 – Münchner Merkur | TZ „München treibt es wieder bunt“, newspaper article 10 October 2021
2021 – Süddeutsche Zeitung „Zwischen Comic und Kandinsky“, newspaper article 18 August 2021
2021 – Kompakt Media „Eigenständig und ausdrucksstark“, Online article 13 August 2021
2021 - KUNST MITTE Messe für zeitgenössische Kunst Magdeburg, catalogue
2021 – OVB Online „Breites Spektrum erwartet Kunstliebhaber bei „Großer Kunstausstellung“ des AK68 in Wasserburg“, newspaper article 11 August 2021
2021 – Passauer Neue Presse „Kreativität ist eine Frage der Einstellung“, newspaper article 17 August 2021
2021 – Al-Tiba9 Contemporary Art „ 10 questions with Veronika Spleiss”, online article 15 July 2021
2020 – Kunstsalon 2020 Gestern < Heute > Morgen, FMDK e.V., catalogue
2020 – Süddeutsche Zeitung „Kunst aus acht Händen“, newspaper article 2 October 2020
2020 – Kompakt Media „Unübersichtlich, unberechenbar, vielseitig“, online article 9 September 2020
2020 - KUNST MITTE Messe für zeitgenössische Kunst Magdeburg, Young Artist Space , catalogue
2020 – Feierwerk Blog „Von Offline zu Online – Die Geschichte der 10 Hände im Farbenladen“, online article 19 March 2020
2020 – MUCBOOK „Die Geschichte der zehn Hände“, online article 5 March 2020
2020 – Mit Vergnügen München „Artvergnügen für Ahnungslose“, Onlineartikel 28. Februar 2020 – Passauer Neue Presse „Das richtige Schwarz“, Newspaper article 15 January 2020
2019 – Murtenbieter „Erste Ausstellung zum Thema Bewegung in neuer Galerie“, newspaper article 29. November 2019
2019 – InFranken "Werkschau 2019 Galerie Marion Kotyba", newspaper article 14 July 2019
2019 – Süddeutsche Zeitung „Sommerliche Emotionen“, newspaper article 2 June 2019