Introduction
artist
Veronika Wenger studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich Germany from 1990 to 1996. In her works Wenger deals with drawing. The drawing represents the visible and uncovers imagination, ideas, reflections and intuitions. Veronika Wenger received, among others HSP - Scholarship of the State of Bavaria; Grant, ArsVersa Art Foundation, Freiburg; Grant, Cultural Foundation of the Stadtsparkasse Munich; project fundings for contemporary art in public spaces by the Bavarian State Ministry of Science and the Arts and by the Department of Arts and Culture of the City of Munich. Wenger is represented in group and solo exhibitions and public collections worldwide, including Amsterdam, Athens, Berlin, Barcelona, Istanbul, London, Munich and Wuhan.
Selima Niggl is an art historian and completed her phd in Zurich on the life and work of the painter Uwe Lausen. In 2017, she became a founding member of the van de Loo Foundation, having worked for Otto van de Loo and then for the van de Loo Gallery since 2006. In her freelance curatorial and publishing work, she focuses on the artistic positions from the environment of the Situationist International (1959–1976) and on the specific genealogy of Munich artists' groups, taking the SPUR group (1957–1965) as a starting point. She has curated exhibitions for, among others, the Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt a.M., the Museum Lothar Fischer, Neumarkt i.d. OPf., the Kunsthalle Schweinfurt, the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart and the Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich. She has published standard works on the painters Pinot Gallizio, Uwe Lausen and Hans Platschek, as well as on the groups WIR (1959–1965) and GEFLECHT (1966–1968).