Veronika Kellndorfer

Veronika Kellndorfer, born in Munich in 1962, is widely regarded as one of the leading contemporary artists working at the intersection of painting, photography, architecture, and public space. Educated at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna and the Berlin University of the Arts, Kellndorfer has developed a distinctive practice that continually interrogates the relationship between the built environment, history, and the present moment.

At the heart of Kellndorfer’s work is an exploration of architecture as a vessel of collective memory and social identity. She approaches buildings as living archives in which history is inscribed and the present is made manifest. Her installations-often realized as large-scale silkscreen prints on glass-transpose architectural fragments into new contexts, layering different eras and spatial dimensions. The result is a series of complex visual spaces that invite viewers to search for traces between transparency and reflection, offering an aesthetic investigation of modernity and its utopias.

A significant focus of her work lies in site-specific interventions in urban environments and public buildings. In Berlin, she has designed facades for the Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Bellevue S-Bahn station, and the ARD Capital Studio. Her projects have garnered international attention, particularly for their dialogue with the architecture of Lina Bo Bardi and Richard Neutra, as seen in recent exhibitions such as “Overcoming Gravity” in Leipzig (2024/25) and “Dialogue with Silver Lake” at the Neutra VDL House in Los Angeles (2023).

Extensive research has taken Kellndorfer to Los Angeles, Rome, and Kyoto, where she was a Goethe-Institut Villa Kamogawa fellow in 2012. Her work has been exhibited at major institutions including the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich, the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, the Berlinische Galerie, and the Christopher Grimes Gallery in Santa Monica, and is held in prominent collections such as the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA).

Based in Berlin, Veronika Kellndorfer exemplifies an artistic practice that renders history tangible through material, continually probing the dynamic interplay between architecture, society, and nature.