ABOUT

Veronika Dräxler is a German-Ecuadorian media and performance artist. Her research explores how trauma, memory, and resilience shape cultural landscapes. Working across media and performance, she investigates energy transformations through rupture and repair, using material metaphors — broken branches, preserved biomass, camouflage patterns and her own body — to trace survival, diplomacy, and negotiation. Her practice examines how to navigate visible and invisible architectures shaped by conflict and healing.
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She holds a diploma from the Academy of Fine Arts Munich (2017) and a Meisterschüler degree from the Berlin University of the Arts (2022). Solo exhibitions include Traces of Life / How to Kill (Kunstverein Grafschaft Bentheim, 2022/23), Beuys, Rückruf: Dringend! (galerie weisser elefant, 2021), and Post Everything Ritualism & Hypernaturality (GEDOKmuc, 2019). She has exhibited internationally in group exhibition under other at a.topos, Venice; Motorenhalle, Dresden; Museo Pumapungo, Ecuador; and Manifesta 11, Zurich.
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Between 2007 and 2017, she developed Selbstdarstellungssucht.de, an artistic research platform on digital identity, awarded the "Kultur- und Kreativpiloten Deutschland" prize (2015). Her projects have been supported by the Foundation of Niedersachsen, the Bavarian Ministry of Science and Art, and the EU Delegation to Ukraine. She has presented her research at Falling Walls Science Week, State Studio Berlin, the Young Security Conference, and the the Sorbonne.
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She lives and works between Munich and Paris.

Traces of Life / How to Kill, Kunstverein Grafschaft Bentheim

Beuys, Rückruf: Dringend!, Galerie Weißer Elefant, Bezirksamt Mitte Berlin

Post-Everything Ritualism & Hypernaturality, Galerie GEDOKmuc, Munich

Look at me, Galerie GEDOKmuc, München
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<10 Prozent, Pforzheim Galerie, Pforzheim

Arte Laguna Prize Finalists, Venedig (IT)

Luminafest, OTH Amberg-Weiden

The Face/Das Gesicht, Galerie Verein Berliner

100 Jahre Künstlervereinigung FFB

Die Ersten Jahre der Professionalität, Galerie der Künstler, Munich
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Tacker, Galerie der Künstler, BBK München und Oberbayern, Munich

Beyond the Spectacle, Platform Munich

Chapters of Violence: Power & Control - mit Patrick Alan Banfield, Galerie Weisser Elefant, Berlin

Let nothing disturb you, Saloon, Schwere Reiter Munich
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Vaster than empires and more slow, Halle50, Domagk Ateliers Munich

Retrotopia, a.topos, Venice (IT)

Tacker, Galerie der Künstler, BBK München und Oberbayern, Munich

Appointment X, Galerie für zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig

30 Jahre Kulturwerkstatt Haus 10, FFB

Balance Finden, Projektraum Uqbar, Berlin

Branches/Geäst, Performance at Kunstverein Ebersberg, Munich

Sagbar, Lecture Performance, Poetry & Performance. The Eastern European Perspective, Motorenhalle, Dresden

19th art exhibition of the city of Fürstenfeldbruck, Kunsthaus FFB

Renewing Self, Performance, Stellwerk, Kassel

And so the internet spoke, Kulturwerkstatt Haus 10, FFB

El Nudo, Performance, “César Davila Andrade: Maestro de la poésia”, Casa Museo Municipal Remigio Crespo Toral Cuenca and Casa de la Cultura Nucleo del Guayas, Guayaquil (EC)

The stage as an inorganic frame, Performance, Motorenhalle, Dresden

Touch Totem, Akademie der Bildenden Künste München, Munich
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The artist’s permanent self-doubts seeking for redemption with a therapist - online, of course, Performance, Cabaret Voltaire, Manifesta 11, Zurich (CH)

Verbindungslinien, BBK München & Oberbayern, Munich
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Artist Residency, EU Delegation to Ukraine, Kyiv (UKR)

Exhibition and Publication Funding, Foundation of Niedersachsen and Ministery of Science and Art of Lower Saxony

Project Funding by the Gisela und Erwin-Steiner-Foundation, Munich

Scholarship Junge Kunst und neue Wege, Bavarian Ministry of Research, Science and Art, Munich

Neustart Kultur Modul A, BBK Bundesverband, Berlin

Scholarship for the Summer School Maastricht - Tillburg, The Artist and the Othersand Platform Munich
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Debutant Sponsorship of the Bavarian Ministry of Research, Science and Art, Catalogue Funding, Bavarian public funding body (LFA Förderbank Bayern)

Kunstförderpreis of the city of Fürstenfeldbruck
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Project Funding for „And so the internet spoke: Thou shall make yourself an image“ by the foundation of the Sparkasse Fürstenfeldbruck
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Award “Kultur- und Kreativpiloten Deutschland 2015” for Selbstdarstellungssucht.de by the German Government

Fellowship of the Bavarian Ministry of Research, Science and Art for two research semesters at Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design

Towards Violence, Seminar Traces de guerre et des conflits, Sorbonne, Paris
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Art, War & Revolution, Q&A Panels and the Young Security Conference, Munich
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Nature, ritual and the metaphysical presence of the body, Beyond the Spectacle, Platform Munich

Let nothing disturb you, Saloon, Schwere Reiter Munich
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Killing, Art and Hunt, Kunstverein Grafschaft Bentheim
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The Branch, Falling Walls, Science Week Berlin, Max-Delbrück-Centrum für Molekulare Medizin, Berlin

The Branch, Fail Institut, Leipzig

The Branch, Curious Minds, State Studio, Berlin

De la adoración a la doración: Practicas artisticas contemporáneas a base del ritual, Museo Pumapungo, Cuenca (EC)

Die Ersten Jahre der Professionalität #43, Galerie der Künstler, Munich
Das Gesicht, Verein Berliner Künstler, Berlin
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Traces of Life / How to Kill (Hunt), Kunstverein Grafschaft Bentheim, Neuenhaus (solo catalogue)
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Post-Everything Ritualism and Hypernaturality, Hammann von Mier, Munich (solo catalogue)

About Nature, About Life, Monography with drawings and poems, 100for10, Munich (monography)

Selbstdarstellungssucht.de, Munich
(blog about young art, culture and digital identity)