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.
The appearance of my works are only their emerged part. I started drawing from early childhood. From the age when a child is first given a pencil, I have never stopped creating. Self-taught, I used observation to picture my world. I was interested in any artistic field, painting on canvas, wood, various supports and sculpture.
I like to link the mediums together, to reincarnate a subject in several forms. I brought many of my paintings to life in texts, which I then transcribed into music. After general studies, I worked in the entertainment industry to work on large format frescoes.
Since March 2020, I have declared myself as an artist author to mar the canvases with its cracks. I thus began to give birth to my current style. I locate my works in Dark Surrealism. Paintings mixing dreams and darkness. Creation is a vitality to me, it is a visceral need to exteriorize my cerebral darkness. Psychology is a primordial subject in my paintings. I struggle tirelessly to find meaningful metaphors, hoping they resonate with a few people. I attach the greatest importance to illustrating psychiatric illnesses, psychological suffering. Too often in the shadow of our society, I want at my small level, to consider them at their right magnitude.
For art; my life, my traumas, my pathologies, but also those of warriors that I have known, have become my muses. Expressing the shadow imperceptible to the naked eye, in surrealist metaphors, is for me a way of transforming suffering into an image, and thus, shimmering it beyond the cerebral cage.
Isn't it completely surreal to want to highlight shadows?
As an artist working in both traditional and digital mediums, my work encapsulates the intersection of technology, and creativity, pushing the boundaries of contemporary art. With a foundation as a professional cover artist, my journey has been enriched by the honor of having my works published in esteemed international art magazines. These experiences have not only broadened my reach, but also deepened my commitment to exploring new visual narratives.
My artistic practice revolves around the dynamic possibilities of digital media allowing me to amalgamate the traditional methods in my works and create fantasy works which delve further deeper into imaginative realism. This fusion creates a vibrant and immersive experience, inviting viewers to engage with the artworks. Each piece I create, is a testament to the limitless potential of digital and traditional combinatorial artistry, reflecting the complexity of human expression and fantasy genre.
Aspiring to expand my presence on international platforms, I am dedicated to share my artworks with a broader audience. My goal is to grow and develop as an artist, while reaching more art groups and enthusiasts, who share equal passion for art. These collaborations are vital to my overall growth as an artist, providing opportunities to exchange ideas, inspire creativity, sell my works on a global platform and cultivate a global community of art lovers.
“The purpose of life is to discover your gift. The work of life is to develop it. The meaning of life is to give your gift away. “ -David Viscott.
I was born in 1988 at Kiel, Northern Germany. It is said that most of the ghost stories are created in regions with bad weather and so it is with me. The stormy, rainy and often foggy region of Schleswig-Holstein with its rough sea and eerie bogs had a big influence on my work. For a long time I kept my stories to myself, just telling them to the trees and tombstones on my walks. In 2020 I graduated with my Bachelor of Arts from the art&design department at the BTK Hochschule für Gestaltung at the city of Hamburg and I started to work as an illustrator and graphic designer.My love for ghost stories and thrillers accompanied me since I did my first attempts of drawing in my childhood. The darker side of human nature, my interest in everything paranormal as well as the grotesque beauty of death and decay are my muses. They lead me to a world which is often disturbing to me but I would call it my refuge.
