Meet Vanessa Wenwieser

Alright – so today we’ve got the honor of introducing you to Vanessa Wenwieser. We think you’ll enjoy our conversation, we’ve shared it below.

Vanessa, so good to have you with us today. We’ve always been impressed with folks who have a very clear sense of purpose and so maybe we can jump right in and talk about how you found your purpose?

Just by watching the world and hearing stories of abuse from friends and reading about it in the magazines and newspapers and feeling outraged that women are still treated less than equal. Unfortunately recently, in many countries the things women have fought so hard to attain have been taken away, like women’s rights over their own body.

I started placing my focus on females, not just because I am one but because I wanted to transform the walls of galleries and museum and in art books with the art of women made by women; as through the centuries females had just been seen through the male gaze and the art world was and still is to some extent very male dominated.

I was disillusioned of this one-dimensional point of view and I wanted to show females from a female vantage point and expose the many facets of what it’s really like being a female; the hopes, the thoughts, pains and fears as well as the strength women have within themselves.

I portray women as the multi-dimensional figures that they are and I am confident that this would inspire many other female artists and slowly show the world what female artists and females have to offer and making it easier with every generation of female to live out their lives as artists and also have encouragement from female artists that came before. After all, we make up half of the population, why ignore and hide what they really are and feasibly through this spur there will be more and more female gallery owners as well as museum curators that will show art created by females.

Appreciate the insights and wisdom. Before we dig deeper and ask you about the skills that matter and more, maybe you can tell our readers about yourself?

I am a photographer/Digital Artist who was born in Munich, exploring themes of love, dreams, isolation and resilience.

I’m graduate of the Glasgow School of Art, with a BA in Fine Art Photography, I recently turned my attention towards digital art and mixed media.

My journey into the art world began as a young child, I’ve always enjoyed drawing, painting, crafts and I delved into photography very early on too, inspired by my father who was a great photographer. When I was older, I progressed into other art forms, such as printmaking and digital art, because I loved the layers one can create and build a story as well as the non-destructive way of working that lends itself extremely well to experimenting.

I am very proud that work has adorned several books, including the poetry collections “Unbound” and “The Muse of Restless Nights” by Sinead McGuigan, on which my art was presented on the front and back cover, the Marvelous Art Group, Art Queens and Arts to Hearts.

I’m very excited that my art was on the cover page Goddessarts Magazine (Jan 2025), as well as Art Seen, where my art graced the front cover.

My work exhibited throughout the world, featured in cities such as London, New York, Baton Rouge, Barcelona, Paris, Amsterdam, Zürich, Venice and Berlin and I am looking forward to an exhibition at the Design Festa Gallery in Tokyo in Spring 2026.

In the future I am looking forward to in working more with painting on my prints and making multi-media art works.

There is so much advice out there about all the different skills and qualities folks need to develop in order to succeed in today’s highly competitive environment and often it can feel overwhelming. So, if we had to break it down to just the three that matter most, which three skills or qualities would you focus on?

My background in photography, in addition taking printmaking courses, which helped. However, it is experimentation by myself that really spurned me on, I never want to stop experimenting, to not experiment is letting the artist inside you die. Through experimentation, you are open for mistakes and many more revelations, you always learn and find out more. It’s mind-blowing how it opens your world to new opportunities and methods.

This is why, in addition to photography, which is the actual medium I trained for, I now love to digitally manipulate my images on Adobe Photoshop because it’s the perfect tool with which to incorporate other mediums, for example, in my case I’ve done a lot of screen printing and I paint and draw too.

In Photoshop I can use all these different mediums that all have their unique values and experiment with them and layer them and when it’s not good, I can delete them and when it is good, I can save them and best of all I can do all this non-destructively. It’s such a joy and it makes this fun and playful element so much more easy to do. I can visually tie everything together and blend my different interests.

My advice for artists who are just beginning their journey would be if you would like to use Adobe Photoshop, maybe even just to experiment as a painter, what other colours might look in your painting, I would say, just always learn a few things on Photoshop that you need and this way you won’t feel overwhelmed, same goes for photographers using Photoshop just learn those skills you need for the next step, by looking at Youtube videos, or trying it out for yourself, experimenting.

That’s how I learnt most things maybe not always the right way but maybe that’s how I also developed such a distinct style of my own.

What was the most impactful thing your parents did for you?

They instilled in me a sense of wonder for the natural world and the arts, telling me stories as a kid, exposing me to books, movies and music; all that is creative and imaginative.

My father especially, who was a keen photographer and inspired me early on to experiment myself, he was an architect but loved drawing when he had time and it instilled this great sense of being creative and how important this is in the world. He firmly believed that everyone has a talent and that should be nurtured and not pushed to do things you don’t want to do. So it’s just let that creative, weirdness in me be nurtured and feed with many creative surrounding things.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://kunstfabrikstudio.com/
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kunstfabrikstudio/