Vera Stein

“Stop, moment, you are beautiful”
(Faust, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
I work with the moment as a rare and fragile form of reality. Goethe’s words are not a quotation for me, but a method of existing within reality. In a world of accelerated time, visual noise, I consciously choose slowness and attention to the moment. It is precisely this that allows one to perceive liminal states, where beauty moves beyond familiar harmony and ceases to be obvious.
I am interested in defect not as an error, but as a carrier of experience and time: asymmetry, distortion, roughness, the trace of what has been lived through. It is what holds the gaze, because life is present within it. Absolute smoothness is neutral; imperfection is expressive.
My subjects arise from everyday experience: landscapes, still lifes, human figures. I do not copy reality literally; I transform it in order to reveal the beauty of the imperfect and make it visible.
I work in mixed media, combining painting with heterogeneous materials and textures. Paper, newspapers, gauze, foil, ground, dense brushstrokes, and tense color form my language, through which I speak about instability, fragility, and the emotional density of the moment.
My art is an invitation to pause, to look ...

Education:
* 2026: Julia Sysalova's Course "How to Buid a Path to Fame as an artist"
* 1995–1996: Computer Graphics Course at Ihler Data Bildungszentrum, Hanover, Germany
* 1990–1991: Qualification as a Decorative Artist (Designer), Scientific and Methodological Center of Folk Art, Rostov-on-Don, Russia

Exhibitions (excerpt):
2026: Friedberg District Office, “Friedberg: My Worlds—Mystification and Reality,” Germany
2025: Town Hall, “Beauty in Everyday Life”, Nidda, Germany
2025: Historic Town Hall, “Expressionist Diversity in Colour”, Mainthal, Germany
2024: Art3f Brüssel, Römerhalle Palette Frankfurt, Römerhalle, Künstler Weihnachtsmarkt, Frankfurt
2023: BBK Frankfurt, St Paul's Church, Artists' Christmas Market
2023: BBK Frankfurt, "The new ones", group exhibition
2023: BBK Frankfurt, "Quo Vadis Natur II", group exhibition
2023: ArtHotel Arabella, Bad Nauheim, "Diversity like life" - solo exhibition
2023: "art4 nature", Munich, group exhibition
2022: Römerhalle, BBK, Frankfurt
2023: 2022, 2019, 2018 Römerhalle, Palette, Frankfurt
2022: ZMO, Mainz - solo exhibition
2022: Gallery "Onil", Bremen, group exhibition
2019: Oberursel, town hall, "The fabulous world of colours" - solo exhibition
2018: Belgium, Hasselt, art gallery "Onder de Toren", "Art connects",
Allain Scherve and Vera Stein.