VANESSA WENWIESER
Location:
Germany
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 and now lives in Zug, Switzerland.
Her artworks have been widely exhibited in 2024; virtually with groups and in several physical exhibitions: Boomer Art Gallery, the Marvelous Art Gallery, Holy Art Gallery, Capital Culture House, Baton Rouge Gallery, Circle Foundation, ARTBOX.PROJECTS, Visionary Art Collective, Goddessarts Magazine as well as Women United ART MOVEMENT.
The year 2025 kicked off with a group exhibition in New York City, with the Capital Culture House in the El Barrio Artspace, called "Rise of the Young Kingdom" and then she is participating in a virtual exhibition by Goddessarts magazine called "Space and Time" from 29 January until 5 March.
Her artworks have been included in several books; firstly, by the Marvelous Art Gallery in their publication "Top artists to watch in 2022/2023" and in Sinead McGuigan's collection of poems called "Unbound" and her artwork adorns the front and back cover of her new book called "The Muse of Restless Nights" and several inside. Her artwork was also featured in books by Arts to Hearts "101Art Book; Floral edition" and another named "Colour" as well as "Women Artists on the Rise". With Art Queens, she was featured in a book with others called "AQ Volume 2: Celebrating the voices of artists".
Her art has been published in Aesthetica Magazine, The Flux Review, The Circle Quarterly Art Review, Marvelous Art Gallery Magazine, 365 Art Plus, Goddessarts Magazine (cover of 2025) and Art Seen Magazine 2024 (front cover), Arts to Hearts Magazine, and Special Editions of Women United ART MAGAZINE.
She has also received several art prizes - three from Artrepreneur's open calls, one from Capital Culture House, two from Mozaik Philanthropy, an honourable mention from the Marvelous Art Group in 2024, and a winner this year for Artist of the Year 2025. She was the 2023 winner of the Women United ART PRIZE in the Digital Art category and one of the 2024 finalists in the Photography & Printmaking category.
ARTIST STATEMENT
Vanessa Wenwieser’s artwork centers on placing women at the heart of her creative vision, liberating them from the conventional male gaze and elevating the female perspective. In her art, women are portrayed as complex beings with intellect, emotions, and innate strength.
She employs figures and allusive storytelling to explore the divide between appearances and essence.
With a focus on revealing emotions in their naked vulnerability, she embarks on an imaginative and exquisite journey to help viewers perceive the transcendent. Her goal is to immerse the audience in her artwork, inviting them to inhabit her otherworldly depictions.
Vanessa’s creations capture the essence of transformative emotions and feelings, including love, metamorphosis, imagination, healing, regaining inner strength, and the afterlife. She employs space to evoke a sense of the sublime, transporting viewers to profound emotional landscapes within the soul.
