VANESSA WENWIESER

ARTIST BIO

Vanessa Wenwieser is an artist, born in Munich, Germany, who graduated with a Fine Art Photography degree from the Glasgow School of Art.

Her artworks were widely displayed in several physical exhibitions in 2025:
The Boomer Gallery, London, England, ’Occo Gallery’, Capital Culture House, Madrid Spain, in New York at the ‘El Barrio Artspace’ and at Baton Rouge Gallery in Louisiana.

With Artboxy she has shown in the Thomson Gallery in Zug, Switzerland, at the Nicoleta Gallery, Berlin, Germany, in Casa Del Arte, Palma, Spain, Art Bar, Grenada, St.George, Barbados, and at the Andakulova Gallery, Dubai, UAE. Furthermore, she is looking forward to exhibiting in the new gallery in Quebec, Canada called “Le Chien D’Or’ in Feb. 2026.

Virtually, she has exhibited with the Women United Art Movement, Marvelous Art Group, Goddessarts, Visionary Art Collective as well as Create Magazine with Sergio Gomez as a curator and with Women in the Arts Network, both have produred a catalogue.

She has been published in several magazines; Aesthetic magazine, The Flux Review, The Circle quarterly art review ‘Spotlight’, the Marvelous Art Gallery magazine, Canvas Rebel Magazine, Bold Journey Magazine and on the front cover of Art Seen Magazine, and also the title page of Goddessart magazine.

Her work is featured on Sinead McGuigan’s collection of poems called ‘My Muse of Restless Nights’ adorning the front and back title page as well as inside the book, and in several beautiful books by Arts to Hearts Projects.

She has also received Art Prizes; from the Women United Art Prize 2023 - Digital Finalist and from the Marvelous Art Group: an honourable mention in 2024. This year she received the art prize again for the category “Finalist in Photography and Printmaking” from the Women United Art prize 2025.


ARTIST STATEMENT

My artwork is a bold exploration of the female perspective, offering a transformative departure from the conventional male gaze. I create spaces where the women are free from objectification, capturing multi-dimensional beings imbued with wisdom, power, and profundity. I blends photographs with digital manipulation, and occasionally drawing, to weave intricate narratives that explore the tension between appearance and essence. Crafting raw portraits that express both vulnerability and strength, I invite my audience to look beyond the surface and contemplate what lies beneath. Whether through themes of love, metamorphosis, growth, healing, or the afterlife, her artwork conveys a deep sense of transformation, guiding the viewer into profound emotional landscapes within the soul.

This transformation is often described seasonally, with flowers, leaves or snow, to describe the passing of time within this transformation.

At the heart of my practice is a desire to create a shared experience, offering viewers not just a glimpse into the female experience, but an invitation to embark on a journey of their own self-reflection.

My artwork speaks of vulnerability and fragility and the non-linear way we crumble and then gradually pick ourselves up again, in my case it was death but it could be any kind of loss. It feels so deep, dark, empty and lonely and cold, but slowly and surely seemingly out of nowhere there is a light in all that empty darkness and the light comes from within and as it shines; there are more lights until there is a sea of light that heals and mends others too. From this loss or emptiness comes an inner strength that helps you sow back even your own wings, to soar through the air again.

My artworks evoke dark emotional spaces—places of struggle, pain, and vulnerability—but they also offer hope, renewal, and strength.