Work Overview

Reviving Nature
Studio 88 Artist Residency

Winter Here, Winter There is an installation created for the group exhibition Reviving Nature. During my stay at Studio 88, an artist residency in Northern Thailand, I was reflecting on the winter season. The installation consists of fallen bamboo leaves linked through thread and found materials. As a sustainable material that is already in my surroundings the leaves became a foundation for drawings inspired by spirits of nature.

Homeward Bound

Homeward Bound is an exhibition co-organised by myself and artist Luke McCowan end of November of 2023. We're presenting 10 young Dutch and International artists, ourselves included, in the city centre of Den Haag, Korte Vijverberg 2. The exhibition is built around the theme of home and each individual artists representation of it. We playfully transform the old office space with wooden walls, carpets, pillows and coffee tables into a cozy exhibition. The aim is to bring people together and start conversations around home, belonging and community and what these themes mean to each one of us.

This show was made possible thanks to the crowdfunding campaign at Voor de Kunst.

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Zomersalon | Maaskoe, Rotterdam | 2022

In July 2022 my work was on show in a group exhibition inspired by the French Salon. Zomersalon presented fourteen emerging figurative painters. The clip above shows the opening, which was accompanied by classical music.

Curated by Nina Davies at Maaskoe Gallery in Rotterdam
Video by Luke McCowan

Storefront Story | Projectspace Lokaal | Utrecht | 2022

Storefront Story was a duo show exhibition with Veronika Petuchova and Merijne Spits. Playful transformation of a gallery display into a magical childhood dream.

Little Ballerina
acquired by MAL Collection Loppersum

"Self-portraits by painters are as old as painting itself. This self-portrait therefore fits into an age-old tradition. However, rarely do we see a painter portraying himself to her or his youth. That is the case here, Veronika sketches herself in a number of accurate monochrome color strokes as a ballerina. What is special is that the painting was made on a partly erased earlier painting during her academy time. And that it is precisely this partly visible remnant of it that suggests a kind of hazy background. Sublime in its accuracy."

- text translated from the MAL Collection website

Little Ballerina | Acrylic on canvas | 40 x 60 cm

Becoming/Mezi Domy | Graduation show | 2021

In her paintings, Veronika Petuchova captures fading moments, and revives memories and feelings from her childhood, to explore how they feed into the present. While fleeting, abstract or liminal at times, Petuchova’s subjects can also appear more concretely and figuratively in her work. When preparing her paintings, Petuchova goes down into memory lane, working from personal stories and objects that she translates from photographs into intuitive brushstrokes. Looking for the most effective ways to capture these fleeting moments, she is triggered not only to create new paintings, but also to rework old ones with an intention to revive them both as objects, depictions, and to continue their story.

Although most of her work is based on photographs she collects, Petuchova herself is very much focused on what she can do with the paint, intentionally disregarding consistency in style to give way to a visual language that suits each occasion particularly. Her paintings are the translation of memories and experiences into her own visual signature, breathing a distinct atmosphere, while moving between depicted documents and poetic, lyrical images.