Volker Veit

Words and images from everyday life are the backdrop for Volker Veit's body of work. He draws on a variety of sources, which at the same time reflect his interest in literature, contemporary dance and music. Every lived and experienced moment can thus have an influence on the current work.
Oriented towards people with their light and shadow sides, his works arise from a basic idea and then complete themselves layer by layer on the image carrier. The groups of works, which are often arranged in series, are oriented towards the thematic complex and the associated differences between individuality and community.
Words, lines and quotations mingle with the reduced, abstract compositions. They expand the pictorial message to include further levels of interpretation and deprive the works of their unambiguous attribution and legibility.
In his work, he feels that he belongs to the analogue, with the corresponding traces of work, the smells and the haptics, with the opportunity to bump his head once in a while. The excursions into the digital world are a means to an end, in the creation of the compositions as well as in making everyday studio life visible on social media.
For him, every work carries within him the person who has designed ...

(E) – solo exhibition, (G) – group exhibition, (P) – performance/ performative work

2025
(G) Nominiertenausstellung Kunstpreis 2024/2025 des Lüneburgischen Landschaftsverbandes, Kunstverein Springhornhof, Neuenkirchen
(E) behausung, Schloss Wolfsburg
(G) …and going on. the dr.j 100th, dr.j art projects, Berlin
(G) UNJURIERT 2025, Kunsthaus BBK, Braunschweig

2024
(S) offene Ateliers Burg Neuhaus, Wolfsburg
(G) Präsentation Kunstkalender 2025 – die Arbeiten, Foyer des Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg
(G) OPUS 35 – Ein Duo im Quartett, Schraube-Museum, Halberstadt
(G) KUNST.MACHT.ARBEIT., halle267 städtische galerie braunschweig, Braunschweig
(G) durch_drehen, xpon-art gallery, Hamburg
(G) Hinter Glas - Kunst im Schaufenster, Innenstadt Wolfsburg

2023
(G) Jahresausstellung BAzwo, Galerie Burg Neuhaus, Wolfsburg
(G) offene Ateliers Burg Neuhaus, Wolfsburg
(G) Kunst in der Porschestraße, Projekt Innenstadt Wolfsburg

2022
(G) UNSICHTBAR, halle267 städtische galerie braunschweig, Braunschweig
(G) SURFACES & SHARDS, Galerie Burg Neuhaus, Wolfsburg
(G) Neustart Kunst, Galerie Burg Neuhaus, Wolfsburg
(G) offene Ateliers Burg Neuhaus, Wolfsburg
(P) Scherbenhaufen, Projektraum 0rplid, Braunschweig

2021
(G) online Digitale H...