*1990
Lives and works in Munich, Germany
Member of the national association of visual artists in Germany (BBK)
Selected works available via Sobering Galerie Paris
Vanessa Luschmanns work focuses on the vulnerability of the individual and society, reflecting the human being in a fragile world characterized by crises, uncertainty and constant struggle with the own inner demons. She uses autobiographical material and transforms it into a portrayal of contemporary times and the state of a generation through her perspective, offering the viewer solidarity in the shared feeling of vulnerability.
Difficult topics, often hidden behind bright colors and humorous details, are dealt within a coexistence of tragedy, comedy and absurdity. With dark, hermetic compositions, she creates works that evoke a profound isolation of her subjects: Profane, rather inconspicuous scenes suggest a deeper meaning and ask about the before or after of what is shown. People are kept at a distance and lost in their own thoughts. Even deserted images convey the vulnerability of the subjects who left their mark there.
Her motifs are carefully arranged and yet not sole reflections of reality, but rather a condensation of it. As silent observers of what is happening, they do not offer answers to the burning issues of our time - instead the search for them becomes the actual goal.
Exhibitions
Private Rooms | 14.01. - 31.01.2025 | Sobering Galerie Paris
SOLO Shows
2024 Age of Anxiety | Üblacker-Häusl, Munich
GROUP Shows
2024 Mitbringen. Mitnehmen | Galerie der Künstler*innen, Munich
2024 Micro Art Gallery | Rathaus, Munich
2024 Luxembourg Art Week | Sobering Galerie Paris
2024 31th Aichacher art awards | SanDepot, Aichach (nominated)
2024 Chaos in der Ordnung im Chaos in der Ordnung… | Künstlerhaus, Munich
2024 “Die Müdigkeit” Zine Release | Kunstpavillion, Munich
2024 NEW&COMING | Kunstverein, Reutlingen
2023 Relax | Galerie der Künstler*innen, Munich
2023 Hochdruck NOW - 70 Jahre XYLON | Kunstmuseum, Reutlingen/Forum Alte Post, Pirmasens
2023 DRUCKKUNST 2023 | Städtische Galerie Harderbastei, Ingolstadt
2023 The State of the World | Galerie im Kornhaus, Schwäbisch Gmünd
2022 Kunstsalon 2022 | SINE LOCO (virtual)
2022 I Have No Words – There Is No Title | Rathausgalerie Kunsthalle, Munich
2022 5th Weissenburger art awards | Kunstschranne, Weissenburg (nominated)
2022 7th Eb-Dietzsch art prize for painting | Gera (nominated)
2021 28th Aichacher art awards | SanDepot, Aichach (nominated, audience award)
2021 Art in a Pandemic | NODEPRESSIONROOM, Munich
2018 Inbetween | Halle 50 DomagkAteliers, Munich
2017 ArtLab | Galerie Benjamin Eck, Munich
2017 [40]² | Seidlvilla, Munich
Grants & awards
2021 28th Aichacher art awards, Audience award for the painting “Abwarten und Tee trinken”
2021 Scholarship program “Young art and new ways” (“Junge Kunst und neue Wege”) of the State of Bavaria
Education
2015 - 2019 BA art education & historiography at Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich
Press/PUBLICATIONS
2024 Sammelband „müde Zines“ (icon Verlag Hubert Kretschmer München. ISBN: 978-3-68919-022-4)
2021 Das Licht am tiefsten Punkt der Dunkelheit (Dr. Berndt Hermann, Aichacher Zeitung)
Educational work
Art education/workshops for