ABOUT

Veronika Dräxler is a German-Ecuadorian artist working with film, performance and research.

Her work explores how history becomes visible in bodies, images and the spaces we inhabit. Through performative encounters with landscapes, architecture and historical figures, she investigates how political and cultural memories persist and reappear in the present.


Drawing on archival research and embodied practice, Dräxler often uses her own body as a medium to activate sites marked by conflict, diplomacy and transformation. Her films and installations move between documentary traces and poetic staging, creating images in which past and present intersect.


Dräxler studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich and the Berlin University of the Arts. Her work has been shown internationally, including at Manifesta 11, Museo Pumapungo in Cuenca (Ecuador) and a.topos in Venice.


She is currently pursuing a practice-based PhD at the École normale supérieure (ENS) within the SACRe doctoral programme at Université PSL in Paris.


She lives and works between Paris and Munich.
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Solo Shows
2025
Fluxus Dialogs, Apartamento Contemporary Art Marseille
2023
Traces of Life / How to Kill, Kunstverein Grafschaft Bentheim
2021
Beuys, Rückruf: Dringend!,  Galerie Weißer Elefant Berlin
2019
Post-Everything Ritualism & Hypernaturality, Galerie GEDOKmuc
Group Shows
2025
Look at me, Galerie GEDOKmuc, München
2024
<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
2023
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
2022
Vaster than empires and more slow, Halle50, Domagk Ateliers Munich
Retrotopia, a.topos, Venice (IT)
2021
Tacker, Galerie der Künstler, BBK München und Oberbayern, Munich
Appointment X, Galerie für zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig
30 Jahre Kulturwerkstatt Haus 10, FFB
2020
Balance Finden, Projektraum Uqbar, Berlin
Branches/Geäst, Performance at Kunstverein Ebersberg, Munich
2019
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
2018
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
2017
Touch Totem, Akademie der Bildenden Künste München, Munich
2016
The artist’s permanent self-doubts seeking for redemption with a therapist - online, of course, Performance, Cabaret Voltaire, Manifesta 11, Zurich (CH)
Awards, Fundings, Residencies
2025
Verbindungslinien, BBK München & Oberbayern, Munich
2024
Artist Residency, EU Delegation to Ukraine, Kyiv (UKR)
2022/23
Exhibition and Publication Funding, Foundation of Niedersachsen and Ministery of Science and Art of Lower Saxony
2022
Project Funding by the Gisela und Erwin-Steiner-Foundation, Munich
2021
Scholarship Junge Kunst und neue Wege, Bavarian Ministry of Research, Science and Art, Munich
Neustart Kultur Modul A, BBK Bundesverband, Berlin
2020
Scholarship for the Summer School Maastricht - Tillburg, The Artist and the Othersand Platform Munich
2019
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
2018
Project Funding for „And so the internet spoke: Thou shall make yourself an image“ by the foundation of the Sparkasse Fürstenfeldbruck
2015
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
Talks
2025
Towards Violence, Seminar Traces de guerre et des conflits, Sorbonne, Paris

2024
Art, War & Revolution, Q&A Panels and the Young Security Conference, Munich

2023
Nature, ritual and the metaphysical presence of the body, Beyond the Spectacle, Platform Munich
Let nothing disturb you, Saloon, Schwere Reiter Munich
2022
Killing, Art and Hunt, Kunstverein Grafschaft Bentheim
2020
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
2018
De la adoración a la doración: Practicas artisticas contemporáneas a base del ritual, Museo Pumapungo, Cuenca (EC)
Publications
2024
Die Ersten Jahre der Professionalität #43, Galerie der Künstler, Munich
Das Gesicht, Verein Berliner Künstler, Berlin
2023
Traces of Life / How to Kill (Hunt), Kunstverein Grafschaft Bentheim, Neuenhaus (solo catalogue)
2019
Post-Everything Ritualism and Hypernaturality, Hammann von Mier, Munich (solo catalogue)
2016
About Nature, About Life, Monography with drawings and poems, 100for10, Munich (monography)
2007 - 2017
Selbstdarstellungssucht.de, Munich
(blog about young art, culture and digital identity)
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