Veronika Hilger
Veronika Hilger’s (*1981) paintings are located in an intermediate realm: between genres, classifications, and abstraction. They address classical subjects such as interiors, landscapes, still life and portraits. She does not separate these genres clearly from each other but rather fuses them into independent pictorial worlds of biomorphic forms that can be read as parables about the human relationship to nature and about the relationship of humans to each other. Ultimately, the oscillation, the as-well-as, and the in-between are what’s interesting to the artist. She explores fundamental questions about the nature and meaning of painting in its formal, technical and conceptual realization by arranging, shifting, layering and changing the pictorial elements in a spontaneous yet careful painting process.
For some time, the artist has also been concerned with ideas of form, materiality, perspective, color, structure and coating in a sculptural way. Some of her ceramic objects are closely linked to her painting and take up many of its working approaches. The sensibility and care in the handling of color, brush stroke and surface are transferred into a three-dimensional space. Other sculptures, which are more representational, focus more on form than color and have a strong symbolic charge.
Works
Veronika Hilger, Untitled, 2023, oil on canvas, 200 × 150 cm
Veronika Hilger, Untitled, 2023, cyanotype, pastel chalk, 56 × 47 cm
Veronika Hilger, Untitled, 2023, ceramic, glazed (Raku), nail (handmade), 5 × 19 × 18 cm
Veronika Hilger, Untitled, 2023, Ceramic, engobe, rosebud, match, cigarette butt (copper-plated, galvanised) 47 × 20 × 13.5 cm
Veronika Hilger, Untitled, 2023, ceramic, glazed (Raku), 36 × 28 × 21 cm
Veronika Hilger, Untitled, 2023, oil and acrylic on canvas, 190 × 130 cm
Veronika Hilger, Untitled, 2023, oil on canvas, in wooden frame, 45 × 50 cm
Veronika Hilger, Untitled, 2023, oil on canvas, in wooden frame, 60 × 45 cm
Veronika Hilger, Untitled, 2022, oil on canvas, 120 × 100 cm
Veronika Hilger, Untitled, 2022, oil on canvas, 60 × 50 cm
Veronika Hilger, Untitled, 2022, ceramic, glazed, 28 × 24.5 x 19 cm
Veronika Hilger, Untitled, 2022, ceramic, glazed, 36,5 × 21,2 × 27 cm
Veronika Hilger, Untitled, 2021, oil on paper on MDF, 39.6 × 29.6 cm
Veronika Hilger, Untitled, 2021, oil on paper on MDF, 39.6 × 29.6 cm
Veronika Hilger, Untitled, 2021, oil on paper on MDF, 39.6 × 29.6 cm
Veronika Hilger, Untitled, 2021, oil on paper on MDF, 39.8 × 29.8 cm
Veronika Hilger, Untitled, 2020, oil on canvas, 120 × 100 cm
Veronika Hilger, Untitled, 2020, ceramic, glazed, 24 × 44 × 30 cm
Veronika Hilger, Untitled, 2020, ceramic, glazed, 21 × 23 × 23 cm
Veronika Hilger, Untitled, 2020, oil on canvas, 60 × 45 cm
Veronika Hilger, Untitled, 2020, oil on canvas, 60 × 45 cm
Veronika Hilger, Untitled, 2020, oil on canvas, 60 × 50 cm
Veronika Hilger, Untitled, 2020, oil on canvas, 150 × 130 cm
Veronika Hilger, Untitled, 2020, ceramic, glazed, epoxide resin, minerals, 26 × 42 × 23 cm
Veronika Hilger, Untitled, 2020, oil on canvas, 60 × 45 cm
Veronika Hilger, Untitled, 2020, oil on paper on MDF, 40 × 30 cm
Veronika Hilger, Untitled, 2019, oil on paper on MDF, 39.5 × 29.5 cm
Veronika Hilger, Untitled, 2019, oil on canvas, 60 × 50 cm
Veronika Hilger, Untitled, 2019, oil on paper on MDF, 39.5 × 29.5 cm
Veronika Hilger, Untitled, 2019, oil on canvas, 30 × 40 cm
Veronika Hilger, Untitled, 2018, ceramic, glazed, 27 × 21 × 10 cm
Veronika Hilger, Untitled, 2018, oil on canvas, 60 × 50 cm
Veronika Hilger, Untitled, 2018, oil on canvas, 45 × 30 cm
Veronika Hilger, Untitled, 2018, oil on canvas, 50 × 40 cm
Veronika Hilger, Untitled, 2018, oil on canvas, 80 × 60 cm
Veronika Hilger, Untitled, 2017, ceramic, glazed, 25 × 22 × 23 cm
Veronika Hilger, Untitled, 2017, ceramic, glazed, 25 × 19 × 11 cm
Veronika Hilger, Untitled, 2017, oil on paper, 30 × 40 cm
Untitled, 2016, oil on paper on MDF, 39,6 × 29.6 cm
Veronika Hilger, Untitled, 2016, oil on canvas, 40 × 50 cm
Veronika Hilger, Untitled, 2015, ceramic, glazed 14 × 18.5 × 9 cm
Veronika Hilger, Untitled, 2015, oil on canvas, 40 × 50 cm
Exhibitions
Push and Pull, Andrew Reed Gallery 2024
Infinite Looping in Harmony, Hatch, Paris 2023
ARCOmadrid, Madrid 2023
THREE OF A KIND, Tartu (EST) 2022
THREE OF A KIND, Tartu (EST) 2022
Veronika Hilger & Zsófia Keresztes, Sperling, Munich DE 2021
Veronika Hilger & Zsófia Keresztes, Sperling, Munich DE 2021
Veronika Hilger & Zsófia Keresztes, Sperling, Munich DE 2021
ICH WEISS NICHT, SOLL ICH RAUSGEHEN, Sperling, Munich, DE 2019
breeding shapes, Kunstpavillon, Munich, DE 2020
breeding shapes, Kunstpavillon, Munich, DE 2020
50 Jahre Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld, DE 2019
50 Jahre Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld, DE 2019
Seltene Erden, Kunstverein Recklingshausen, Recklinghausen, DE 2016
Seltene Erden, Kunstverein Recklingshausen, Recklinghausen, DE 2016
Die ersten Jahre der Professionalität 34, Galerie der Künstler, Munich, DE 2015
Selected Solo Exhibitions
- breeding shapes, Kunstpavillon München, Munich, DE
2020
- ICH WEISS NICHT, SOLL ICH RAUSGEHEN, SPERLING, Munich, DE
2019
- Seltene Erden, Kunstverein Recklinghausen, Recklinghausen, DE
2016
Selected Group Exhibitions
- “Three of a Kind”, Kogo Gallery, Tartu, EST
2022
- Various Others, Veronika Hilger & Zsófia Keresztes, Sperling, Munich, DE
- WERK.STOFF Preis für Malerei, HDKV, Heidelberg, DE
2021
- 50 Jahre Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld, DE
2018
- another gesture, A.I.R. Gallery, New York, US