*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 and Galerie Biesenbach Cologne
Vanessa Luschmanns work focuses on the expression of emotion - both on an individual and collective level. 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.
While seeking for emotion and meaning in everyday scenes she creates a narrative around lifeless objects. Although her works are characterized by a bright color palette, there is often an invisible veil of melancholy overshadowing the settings, indicating subtly that something is not quite alright. She plays with the ambiguity of such colorful formal approach and a certain severity of interpretation, combining tragedy, comedy and absurdity with humorous details.
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
05/02 - 08/02/2026 Art karlsruhe | Galerie biesenbach
On The Road | Sobering Galerie, Paris (group)
Full House | Galerie der Künstler*innen, Munich (group)
Unwrapped | Better Go South Gallery, Stuttgart (group)
Animalistic | Galerie Biesenbach, Cologne (group)
Seattle Art Fair | Sobering Galerie, Seattle (fair)
The Lasting Details | Sobering Galerie, Paris (group)
San Francisco Art Fair | Sobering Galerie, San Francisco (fair)
Velvet Glove: Trio Show with Ivan Arlaud & Julien Lischka | Sobering Galerie, Paris (group)
Ghost Stories & weiterer Spuk | Köglturm, Aichach (solo)
2024
Mitbringen. Mitnehmen | Galerie der Künstler*innen, Munich (group)
Micro Art Gallery | Rathaus, Munich (group)
Luxembourg Art Week | Sobering Galerie, Luxembourg (fair)
31th Aichacher art awards | SanDepot, Aichach (nominated, group)
Chaos in der Ordnung im Chaos in der Ordnung… | Künstlerhaus, Munich (group)
“Die Müdigkeit” Zine Release | Kunstpavillion, Munich (group)
NEW&COMING | Kunstverein, Reutlingen (group)
Age of Anxiety | Üblacker-Häusl, Munich (solo)
2023
Relax | Galerie der Künstler*innen, Munich (group)
Hochdruck NOW - 70 Jahre XYLON | Kunstmuseum, Reutlingen/Forum Alte Post, Pirmasens (group)
DRUCKKUNST 2023 | Städtische Galerie Harderbastei, Ingolstadt (group)
The State of the World | Galerie im Kornhaus, Schwäbisch Gmünd (group)
2022
Kunstsalon 2022 | SINE LOCO (virtual, group)
I Have No Words – There Is No Title | Rathausgalerie Kunsthalle, Munich (group)
5th Weissenburger art awards | Kunstschranne, Weissenburg (nominated, group)
7th Eb-Dietzsch art prize for painting | Gera (nominated, group)
2021
28th Aichacher art awards | SanDepot, Aichach (nominated, audience award)
Art in a Pandemic | NODEPRESSIONROOM, Munich (group)
2018
Inbetween | Halle 50 DomagkAteliers, Munich (group)
2017
ArtLab | Galerie Benjamin Eck, Munich (group)
[40]² | Seidlvilla, Munich (group)
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
2025 Generazione Critica, review of the painting Escapism, Online
2024 Sammelband „müde Zines“ (icon Verlag Hubert Kretschmer München. ISBN: 978-3-68919-022-4), Print
2021 Das Licht am tiefsten Punkt der Dunkelheit (Dr. Berndt Hermann, Aichacher Zeitung), Online/Print
Educational work
Art education/workshops for