Accordingly, the artist continues the tradition of both the Russian constructivists and the German Dadaists: El Lissitzky and Hans Arp spontaneously come to mind. Some of her sculptures reference the architecture of the Bauhaus in Dessau, and hence contrast starkly with her collages – reminiscent of the floral images by Henri Matisse that the artist so greatly admires. In their complexity and diversity, her works draw on the great traditions of 20th-century art, yet they contextualise them from new and independent perspectives. 

However, as she herself frequently emphasises, Veronika Taussig is self-taught. She showed her works in her first exhibition in Berlin’s BOX Freiraum gallery in 2016. 

Born with a genuine gift for the sculptural composition of space, the artist is breaking new ground in the way she translates her notions and knowledge of materiality into works of art. Contradictory materials like paper or metal are combined or positioned alongside each other, thereby visualising questions that are also the current focus of contemporary architecture between the poles of shroud and structure. Individual objects emerge as installations in which the parts engage in an interplay with the whole, i.e. a complex connection whose mutual influence and relationship to its surroundings gives rise to something ‘entirely new’. 

With her objects, the artist also overcomes the narrow limits of sculptural art, design, drawing and painting. Her works are refreshingly new, alive and reflect the multimedia world of the 21st century from the very personal perspective of the artist herself. 

Inge Scholz-Strasser