Veronika Neukirch is a German artist born in 1986 in Duesseldorf. She completed her Art & Design Foundation in 2010 and graduated with a BA (Honours) Fine Art from Central Saint Martins in 2013. She has been based in Kuala Lumpur since 2014 and has been exhibiting across Malaysia as well as abroad.
As an object-based artist concerned with developing new roles for pre-designed objects, Veronika creates compositions that strive to represent and utilise the pluralistic nature of contemporary art and contemporary life. The combining and finding of a new balance between various selected and handmade components run through her entire practice, consisting predominantly of sculpture, assemblage, collage, installation. The tension between artificial, functional, and ready-made elements and the organic shapes of intuitive material experimentation offers wide haptic diversity.
The rich local flora and fauna will be the starting point of her collaborative residency with local artist Haffendi Anuar. Veronika will be in residency at Rimbun Dahan for four months starting in February.
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- Hapto Tablets 1.0; 5/Series of 5, 2016; 34 x 21.5 x 9cm; Wood, cement, self-adhesive shelf liner, dyed grout, latex glue, crochet thread, hooks
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- Hapto Tablets 1.0; 4/Series of 5, 2016; 34 x 21 x 5.5cm; Wood, shelf liner, dyed grout, hooks, glue, thread
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- Sterile Jungle; 2014; 61 x 254 x 61cm; Digital collage on synthetic paper, astro turf, plant, artificial plant, 2 sticker hooks, 2 insect repellent coils
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- Moosi Kampung; 2016′; 50 x 85 x 60cm; Glass container, clay, spraypaint, aquarium plant, gardener’s foam
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- Granny Smith’s Table; 2015; 90 x 130 x 90cm; Wood, glass plate, fruit basket, spray paints, 4 artificial apples, Granny Smith’s stickers
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- Apples & Pineapples; 2015; 90 x 223 x 8.5; Printed fabric, acrylic paint, artificial apples, permanent marker
Sterile Jungle (2014) – published in Make8elieve #8, Horror Plants, USA/Switzerland
Granny Smith’s Table (2015) and Apples & Pineapples (2015) – exhibited at:
- 2015: ‘RIPEN AT HOME’ (solo), Minut Init, Petaling Jaya, Malaysia
- 2016: ‘Extending Ideas’ (group show kindly supported by Goethe Institute Malaysia), Feeka, Kuala Lumpur & Museum Negeri Pulau Pinang, USM, Penang, Malaysia