Vero

freelance artist & master ivory carver

Inspired by music, literature, and especially my deep connection to nature, I translate impressions, experiences, and inspirations into my artwork. In my studio, sculptures, objects, paintings, and jewelry emerge from the initial sketch to the final, independent creation.

The main themes here are the search for meaning and self-knowledge, the transience of being, as well as physical and spiritual transformation.

Depending on the design, I select the appropriate material based on its properties, structure, form, and color, ensuring it does justice to the individual piece.
I use bone, wood, wool, mammoth ivory, clay, metal, and antler.

In contrast to the homogeneous materials of modern times, these natural materials are entirely organic.
The pieces I work with have grown organically; they sometimes exhibit tension, cracks, discoloration, or gnarled shapes, bearing the marks of life, time, and nature itself.

Combining traditional carving techniques, ancient modeling methods, and experimental processing of various natural materials, I create my pieces, allowing aesthetic structures to emerge—sometimes rough, sometimes delicate, sometimes already in the process of dissolution.
The diverse surfaces, ranging from velvety smooth to fire-torn, with their dynamic lines and organic forms, reflect emotions and thoughts, movement and stillness, creating contrasts and uniting opposites.

CV

1975 born in Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Studied art history, ethnology, and religious studies in Heidelberg

2001-2004 Apprenticeship culminating in the journeyman's examination to become an ivory carver

2004-2006 Scholarship – German Ivory Museum Erbach

2006 Master's examination to become an ivory carver
Chamber of Skilled Crafts Rhine-Main

Since then, implementation of independent and commissioned works, restorations, demonstrations in museums, workshops for private clients, museums, and on cruise ships, exhibition conception, group and solo exhibitions.

References

 

  • Joint exhibition with a number of artists on the occasion of the factory opening of Koch & Bergfeld, Bremen, 2018
  • Joint exhibition with Eva Halat at Life’s Finest Fair at Gut Schwarzerdhof, Bretten, 2015
  • Die Kulturmacher e.V., Wennigsen, Germany; Workshop leader within the framework of the "Active Summer School" Hanover Region, 2013
  • TUI Cruises; Workshop leadership on the cruise ship "Mein Schiff", lectures, exhibition, 2009, 2010
  • State Theatre Mainz, Germany; group exhibition 2006