Veronika Bernard

Contemporary Sculptor, Mixed Media Artist

Veronika Bernard was born in Chelyabinsk, Russia, in 1989.
She studied sculpture at the Ilya Repin Institute of Arts in St. Petersburg, where she received her MFA in 2016 and was awarded a grant for the outstanding diploma work. She has taught sculpting and modeling to both children and adults. She is the founder of Masters 19, a sculpture workshop in St. Petersburg (2015–2026).
Veronika works across a range of materials and styles, exploring the expressive potential of sculptural form. Her practice also includes socially engaged and community-based projects that involve direct interaction with audiences. She has curated and participated in various exhibitions, and her works are held in private collections in the USA, Canada, Israel, Italy, the UK, France, and Russia. In 2022, she relocated to Israel, where she is currently based in Haifa.

2010–2016 MFA in Sculpture, Repin Institute of Arts, St. Petersburg, Russia
2004–2009 Diploma in Sculpture, Chelyabinsk Art College, Russia

2026 Seen. Heard. Present., Bifnocho Space, Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel
2026 Emodern, Community Space Sirkin 21, Haifa, Israel
2025 ZUMU, a social travelling museum in Israel, Kfar Giladi
2025 Final exhibition of the Multicultural Art Residency “The Great Perhaps”, Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel
2025 FreshPain Art&Design Fair, Technical center Kremenetski, Tel Aviv-Yafo
2025 Haifa from the first person, Beit Hagefen Art Gallery, curator Vera Gailis, Haifa, Israel
2024 Name and address, The Space For Community Art, curator Oz Zloof, Haifa, Israel
2024 DiverSity, HaMecarer Gallery, Tel Aviv-Yafo
2024 Free space, Harmony Сulture Сenter, Jerusalem Municipality
2024 Art of Textile, center of youth, culture and sport, Kiryat-Motzkin
2024 Art now #1, cafe Tsafon Roasters, curator Creative community, Haifa
2023 Yalla Shoola, TOHUBOHU photostudio, curator Valeria Geselev, Haifa
2022 Vse Bude Ukraina, curator KakDelart, Haifa
2021 No address, Sheremetev Palace, curators Veronika and Daniel Bernard, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
2020 New time, Tretyakov gallery, Moscow, Russia (catalog)
2018 The youth, Russian Union of Artists, Saint-Petersburg, Russia (catalog)
2014 L'Accademia itinerante delle arti, Pietrasanta, Italy (...