What is your specialty, what makes your work unique? Or place your artist's statement.

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.

Text by Menno Vuister

What are your ambitions? What do you want to be in five years?

I'd like to be able to sustain my artistic practice, either work on my own project or find ones to collaborate on. Having finished a Masters program and perhaps doing some residencies, which would allow me to travel around.

What is the most important thing you have learned during your studies?

During my studies I think the most important thing I learned was independency within my own practice, work ethic and although it is a constant struggle I keep on learning how to find faith in myself and what I do.

List of publications / exhibitions / prices / concerts / shows etc.

June/July 2021 - Graduation Show HKU, Pastoe Fabriek
June 2021 - Dooyewaard Stichting Nomination
January 2020 - SINKIN Expo, De Havenloods Utrecht, group show sponsored by K.F. Hein Fonds
May 2019 - First Time Always Hurts, Lou Oudenoord 330, group show sponsored by K.F. Hein Fonds

What are your ambitions? What do you want to be in five years?

I'd like to be able to sustain my artistic practice, either work on my own project or find ones to collaborate on. Having finished a Masters program and perhaps doing some residencies, which would allow me to travel around.

What is the most important thing you have learned during your studies?

During my studies I think the most important thing I learned was independency within my own practice, work ethic and although it is a constant struggle I keep on learning how to find faith in myself and what I do.

List of publications / exhibitions / prices / concerts / shows etc.

June/July 2021 - Graduation Show HKU, Pastoe Fabriek
June 2021 - Dooyewaard Stichting Nomination
January 2020 - SINKIN Expo, De Havenloods Utrecht, group show sponsored by K.F. Hein Fonds
May 2019 - First Time Always Hurts, Lou Oudenoord 330, group show sponsored by K.F. Hein Fonds