Women United ART PRIZE 2023
Digital Art Category
1st place winner
ARTIST 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 is 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 exhibited on Broadway Plaza, in New York; curtesy of ArtTalk Magazine, this project was displayed on digital screens onto pedestrian plazas.
She then will be exhibiting in July, in Amsterdam, Brussels, Paris and 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 received three prizes from Artrepreneur; one from Capital Culture House and two from Mozaik Philanthropy.
ARTIST STATEMENT
Vanessa Wenwieser’s work places the female into the centre of her imagination, she liberates them from the typical male gaze and brings her female perspective to the forefront.
In her artworks, women are seen as beings with minds, emotions and intuitively powerful. Using the figure and allusive storytelling elements Wenwieser examines the gap between appearance and being.
Feelings are exhibited naked and vulnerable, she explores them in an imaginative and beautiful way, trying to make people see the transcendent.
Her aim is to pull the viewer inside her pictures to make them inhabit her otherworldly depictions.
These artworks, show what particular transformative emotions and feelings could look like. Be it love, metamorphosis, imagination, healing, regaining lost strength, freedom and the afterlife.
Wenwieser uses space to create feelings of the sublime, when describing strong emotional places of the soul.
“I want to be inside your darkest everything” (Frida Kahlo)
Munich / Germany
