Veronika Weingärtner

Veronika Weingärtner was born in Neuenbürg near Pforzheim and initially began her studies at the Free Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart. She graduated from the Mainz Academy of Fine Arts under Professors Ulrich Hellmann and Martin Schwenk. She was a master’s student of Professor Andrea Büttner and Adrian Williams. Her undergraduate project on the theme of ‘Transformation of Space’ won an award. Since then, she has received several further prizes: in 2014, she was nominated for the Emy Roeder Prize awarded by the Ludwigshafen Art Association. In 2015, she was one of the winners of the “Encouragement Prize” awarded by the Kunsthalle Darmstadt and the Lions Club Darmstadt Mathildenhöhe. In 2018/2019, Veronika Weingärtner was awarded the Mary Somerville Scholarship and the associated teaching post for three semesters at Mainz University of Applied Sciences, in the Department of Communication Design and Free Design. Weingärtner also took part in the mentoring programme for artists in Rhineland-Palatinate, which promotes gender equality in the arts and is aimed at women with links to Rhineland-Palatinate who work as freelance artists. Most recently, her works have been exhibited at venues including the Waggonfabrik in Mainz and the Künstlerhaus Saarbrücken in Saarland. With the exhibition “Veronika Weingärtner: shape of colour. 21st Mainz City Printer”, she continued the tradition, established in 1987, of exhibitions by female city printers at the Gutenberg Museum in Mainz. In 2025, Veronika Weingärtner was awarded a Rhineland-Palatinate grant, which enabled her to undertake a residency at the partner institution ISBA (Institut Supérieur des Beaux-Arts de Besançon) in Burgundy-Franche-Comté.