Verena Bachl (*1985, Wörth a.d. Donau, DE) follows a post-minimalist approach in her sculptures and installations, characterised by a strong conceptual foundation. By employing charged materials — metaphorically and physically — such as marble, silicon, fluorescent tubes and magnets, she stages matter and its interactions as works of art. Some of her works incorporate industrial objects as architectural structures through which she explores the potential of material memory and processes of storage by means of energy and information. The presence of her chosen materials often evokes both mystical and digital associations, allowing physical phenomena to transform into sculptural form.

Her practice unfolds through a dynamic collision of material autonomy, ephemeral abstraction, and the elemental forces of physics. Light and energy permeate her installations, immersing her sculptures in synthetic atmospheres that oscillate between the archaic and the futuristic.

By staging functional objects as relics — stripped of their original purpose and reimagined as ambiguous artefacts — Bachl creates speculative scenographies. These juxtapositions of minimalist form, technological implementation, and contrasting textures of metal, glass, and stone open a poetic space of uncertainty, resistance, and the irreducible presence of the unknown.

Education

2010-2016

Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weißensee, Germany

Group Exhibitions (Selection)

2025

Intelligence it’s automatic! Zebrastraat, New Technological Art Award (NTAa) Ghent, Belgium
BBA Anniversary Exhibition, BBA Gallery, Kühlhaus Berlin, Germany

2024

echoes of tomorrow. yes, today!, Group Show, BBA Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Noise_Media Art Fair, BBA Gallery, Kadiköy City Museum, Istanbul, Turkey
Notes from the seafloor, Gasometer Oberhausen, Germany

2023

etcetera pp., Begehungen Festival, Lichtenstein, Germany

2022

BBA Artist Prize 2022, Group Show, BBA Gallery, Kühlhaus Berlin, Germany
Vasarely Legacy, Annet-sur-Marne, France
Seaphony, Alte Münze, Berlin, Germany

2021

2200 UND3R, Festival IZIS, Koper, Slovenia
Prima Kunst, Stadtgalerie Kiel, Germany

2020

Ars Electronica.ART, Gallery Group Exhibition, Online

Prizes

2022

BBA Artist Prize (Shortlist)

2021

Aesthetica Art Prize (Longlist)

Publications (Selection)

2024

AI and Materiality, Materiability Research Group, HS Anhalt (forthcoming)
Vasarely Legacy, Infine edtitions d’art

2021

Future Now - 100 Contemporary Artists. Aesthetica Art Prize Anthology

2020

Aesthetica Magazine, Rebirth & Renewal, Issue 97