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Veronika Veit

Veronika Veit

Munich, Germany

Collage, Drawing, Installation, Mixed media, Sculpture, Video • Born in Munich, Germany • Studied at Munich, Germany

Published  03/02/2022   |   Updated  12/02/2022

Control and coincidence - There is no right life in the wrong one

Is everything connected to everything else or does coincidence rule? Can we even begin to control the overcomplexity of our globalized world and our lives?
With large installations and art in public space, Veronika Veit stage-sets these questions in scenarios that seem almost apocalyptic. When looked at more closely, however, one sees that they are more pertinent to current events than would seem at first sight.
In 2000, Veronika...

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Is everything connected to everything else or does coincidence rule? Can we even begin to control the overcomplexity of our globalized world and our lives?
With large installations and art in public space, Veronika Veit stage-sets these questions in scenarios that seem almost apocalyptic. When looked at more closely, however, one sees that they are more pertinent to current events than would seem at first sight.
In 2000, Veronika Veit had already exhibited works dealing with the topic of ‘supposed control’ in the Haus der Kunst in Munich. She installed gear levers and buttons of a ‘stimulating character’ which could only fictionally set something in motion. The three works exhibited here reflect, on the one hand, our desire for control and, on the other, pose the question of coincidence and loss of control.
In the installation, “Coincidence and Opportunity”, cupboards have been linked to each other with encroaching piping and other objects. They house monitors with animated films and small sculptures. Somehow, everything seems to connect with everything else even if it is not quite clear how. Like a picture puzzle, every object poses riddles and opens up new references with each new viewing. The video work “Better Times” also plays with the delusion that one can have everything under control. In a site trailer, a video installation can be seen in which two people appear to be fleeing from a possible disaster. In front of an enormous control panel simulating controllability, they are sitting it out. This subject was inspired by the ‘prepper’ or survivalist, movement whose members seek to protect themselves from the unpredictable such as natural catastrophes and wars by stockpiling food and building panic rooms.
“Bunker” allows a glimpse through the window into the rigidly structured daily life of a family living in isolation. It appears that only by rigidly regulated behaviour and extreme hygiene is it possible for the mother to maintain control. However, an intruder in the shape of a dog stands as a metaphor for the imagination and mental world of the children which repudiate control.
With an acutely critical eye, Veronika Veit looks at our relationships to everyday objects and fellow human beings. With their multifarious and historical relational levels, their intelligent humour, and her precise observation of human behaviour, her works are unique.

Angelika Otto

Veronika Veit
Bunker, 2017, Filminstallation in public space

Bunker, 2017, Filminstallation in public space

Zufall und Gelegenheit, 2013, multimedia Installation, No Place like Home, Wilhelm Hack Museum Ludwigshafen, 5th Fotofestival

Zufall und Gelegenheit, 2013, multimedia Installation, No Place like Home, Wilhelm Hack Museum Ludwigshafen, 5th Fotofestival

Lenoir, 2013, about: 37 x 78 x 70 cm, mixed plastic, lether

Lenoir, 2013, about: 37 x 78 x 70 cm, mixed plastic, lether

nothing_to_hide, 97 x 46 x 66 cm, fabric, epoxy resin, polish, paper, acrylic, plastic

nothing_to_hide, 97 x 46 x 66 cm, fabric, epoxy resin, polish, paper, acrylic, plastic

Better times, 2015, Animation film, FullHD film, 13 min

Better times, 2015, Animation film, FullHD film, 13 min

Better times, 2015, a multimedia installation with FullHD film, 13,15 min, Haus der Kunst, Munich, 2015

Better times, 2015, a multimedia installation with FullHD film, 13,15 min, Haus der Kunst, Munich, 2015

Sendepause, 2005, Installation with animation film

Sendepause, 2005, Installation with animation film

I refuse female housework at all, 2020, 67 x 55 x 44 cm, textiles, plastic, wood, acrylic paint

I refuse female housework at all, 2020, 67 x 55 x 44 cm, textiles, plastic, wood, acrylic paint

9971, 2018, 95 x 32 x 22 cm, fabric, plastic

9971, 2018, 95 x 32 x 22 cm, fabric, plastic

connected_on_nature, Installation and film, 2019

connected_on_nature, Installation and film, 2019

Digit, 2013, about.: 19 x 112 x 115 cm, mixed plastic, polish

Digit, 2013, about.: 19 x 112 x 115 cm, mixed plastic, polish

Die Faust, 2010, FullHD film, 4:44 min

The film deals with the desire of the late 1950s for a new beginning, recovery and the forgetting of the horrors of the war and Nazi times in Germany. Many families kept silent about the violence they had experienced and preferred to repress the past rather than deal with it...

Bunker, 2017, FullHD film, 6:42 min

Bunker reflects a society that is increasingly concerned with individualisation instead of community and in which buzzwords such as self-realisation and self-optimisation are already a topic in kindergarten.

Dirt as a pet, 2020, FullHD film, 3:00 min

Based on the song: "Dirt as a pet" by Veronika Veit

Last Generation, 2020, FullHD film, 3:50 min

Based on the song: "Last Generation" by „Hey, Band" (Georg Rudolph, Julia Sakas, Veronika Veit)

changing times, 2021, FullHD film, 3:56 min

Based on the song: "Changing room" by „Hey, Band" (Georg Rudolph, Julia Sakas, Veronika Veit)

Better times, 2017, FullHD film, 13:01 min

A window provides a glimpse into a control room scene. The viewer looks at a video recording of two men who must have been sitting there earlier.

connected_on_nature, FullHD animation film, 6:42 min


EXHIBITIONS

SOLO

2021

Videoprogramm: Veronika Veit, Haus am Waldsee, Berlin

Better times, Kulturraum Klohäußchen, Munich

2019

connected_on_nature, Digital art Space, Munich

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GROUP

2021

VIDEODOX – Biennale für Videokunst, Munich

Sympatric Areas, artQ13, Rome, Italy

Fünf SeenFilmfestival- Was ist wahr?, Starnberg

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GALLERIES

Caroline Smulders, Paris | https://www.csmulders.com/category/artistes/artistes-representes/

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