"MY GARDEN, WHERE IT ALWAYS SEEMS TO BE MIDNIGHT, IS A GARDEN FULL OF STRONG FEMALE CHARACTERS WHO ARE NOT AFRAID TO SHOW THEIR VULNERABILITY.
IN MY GARDEN, WOMEN HAVE MANY FACETS, NOT JUST THE CONNOTATION FROM THE GARDEN OF EDEN THAT THEY LEAD MEN ASTRAY. HERE, GOOD AND EVIL SIT SIDE BY SIDE, AND EVEN THE MOST DELICATE AND BEAUTIFUL FLOWERS CAN BE POISONOUS.
IN THE DARK FORSET, HOME TO FAIRYTALES AND ENCHANTING IMAGES, MY FEMALES EMBODY THE NATURAL WORLD, SOMETIMES ON THEIR SKIN AND SOMETIMES PIERCING THROUGH IT. THEY ARE METAMORPHOSING IMAGES AND IDEAS FROM OTHER WORLDS, TRANSFORMING BEFORE YOUR VERY EYES.
MY WOMEN ARE EMPOWERD BY THE PLANT AND FLOWER WORLD. THEY CARRY IT LIKE A COAT OF ARMOUR, WHICH HEALS THEIR WOUNDS AND HELPS THEM TO GROW STRONG AND FLY AGAIN. IMMERSE YOURSELF IN MY PAINTERLY WORLD OF IMAGINATION WHERE GREEN AND RED REIGN SUPREME AND DARKNESS ENVELOPES YOU AND PROVIDES YOU WITH SPACE FOR CONTEMPLATION."
- VANESSA WENWIESER
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ABOUT THE ARTIST
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, and ’Occo Gallery’ Madrid, Spain and in New York at the ‘El Barrio Artspace’ organised by Capital Culture House.
With Artboxy, she has shown in the Thomson Gallery in Zug, Switzerland, in the Nicoleta Gallery, Berlin, Germany, in Casa Del Arte, Palma, Spain, in the Art Bar, Grenada in the Caribbean and at the Andakulova Gallery, Dubai, UAE. In February this year, she exhibited in a new gallery in Quebec, Canada called “Le Chien D’Or’.
She is also taking part with Artboxy, at the Expo Strasbourg, France and the Expo Milano, Italy this year and coming up in contingency with Art Basel and in Zürich train station in the summer.
She is very proud that 3 of her artworks are currently on show at the Awita Gallery, New York, throughout May.
Virtually, she has exhibited with the Women United Art Movement, Marvelous Art Group, Goddessarts, Visionary Art Collective, Create Magazine with Sergio Gomez as a curator and with Women in the Arts Network, both have produced 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, where her work can be seen in the latest publication, and also the title page of Goddessarts magazine where she has had her artwork presented many times. She has been presented numerous times with Women’s United Art Magazine, with interviews, where her work can be seen in the latest spring issue.
Her work is featured in 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.
"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 as well as the strength we gather from nature.
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."
