VERONIKA ARTO
VERONIKA ARTO (OVCHINNIKOVA)
is a German artist of Latvian origin who works in the field of painting and graphic art.
Veronika Arto is the artistic pseudonym of Veronika Ovchinnikova.
She was born in 1982 in Daugavpils, Latvia, and studied at several art schools in Daugavpils and Riga. After graduating from high school, she decided to pursue a professional career in art. She enrolled in a college of applied arts and later continued her education at the Latvian Academy of Arts.
Over the years, Veronika worked as a graphic designer, interior and furniture designer, 3D sculptor, and art director. During her maternity leave, she returned to watercolor painting and eventually rediscovered her passion for oil painting ... read more
She was born in 1982 in Daugavpils, Latvia, and studied at several art schools in Daugavpils and Riga. After graduating from high school, she decided to pursue a professional career in art. She enrolled in a college of applied arts and later continued her education at the Latvian Academy of Arts.
Over the years, Veronika worked as a graphic designer, interior and furniture designer, 3D sculptor, and art director. During her maternity leave, she returned to watercolor painting and eventually rediscovered her passion for oil painting ... read more
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BIO
Veronika Arto is the artistic pseudonym of Veronika Ovchinnikova.
She was born in 1982 in Daugavpils, Latvia, and studied at several art schools in Daugavpils and Riga. After graduating from high school, she decided to pursue a professional career in art. She enrolled in a college of applied arts and later continued her education at the Latvian Academy of Arts.
Over the years, Veronika worked as a graphic designer, interior and furniture designer, 3D sculptor, and art director. During her maternity leave, she returned to watercolor painting and eventually rediscovered her passion for oil painting.
Veronika Arto is the artistic pseudonym of Veronika Ovchinnikova.
She was born in 1982 in Daugavpils, Latvia, and studied at several art schools in Daugavpils and Riga. After graduating from high school, she decided to pursue a professional career in art. She enrolled in a college of applied arts and later continued her education at the Latvian Academy of Arts.
Over the years, Veronika worked as a graphic designer, interior and furniture designer, 3D sculptor, and art director. During her maternity leave, she returned to watercolor painting and eventually rediscovered her passion for oil painting.
ARTIST'S STATEMENT
Manifesto of an artist who never ceases to be surprised.
I am an artist and a student at the same time: eternal, curious, open.
I live among giants - people of precision, calculation and deep thought. Their world is engineering, my world is different, but with the same roots in craft. Therefore, not only the idea is important to me, but also the proof: in skill, in the hand, in a clean brushstroke. I speak the language of the understandable and accepted in order to lead into the world of the incomprehensible and enchanting.
My path is the path of a researcher. I study not only colors, but also perception: how light, scale, texture and movement affect emotions.
I want to paint in oil, like in watercolor - easily, fluidly, spontaneously. In nature, I find rhythms and harmony in the slope of a branch, the breath of clouds, the roughness of a stone and, as a multimedia artist, I record these observations in paintings and spaces, real and virtual.
My art is transformation. Experiments with form, material, idea are important to me. I mix the incompatible, because new meanings are born on the borders of the unrelated. I love paradoxes and believe that uniqueness lives in each person.
I am attracted to portraits with real, unprocessed emotions. I want to capture faces without masks, filters and caricatures.
Emotion is the basis of art, the first impulse. It makes art personal and universal.
This is how I build bridges between the visible and the felt: through the face - to the inner world, through the brushstroke - to the experience.
Let's be surprised together!
Manifesto of an artist who never ceases to be surprised.
I am an artist and a student at the same time: eternal, curious, open.
I live among giants - people of precision, calculation and deep thought. Their world is engineering, my world is different, but with the same roots in craft. Therefore, not only the idea is important to me, but also the proof: in skill, in the hand, in a clean brushstroke. I speak the language of the understandable and accepted in order to lead into the world of the incomprehensible and enchanting.
My path is the path of a researcher. I study not only colors, but also perception: how light, scale, texture and movement affect emotions.
I want to paint in oil, like in watercolor - easily, fluidly, spontaneously. In nature, I find rhythms and harmony in the slope of a branch, the breath of clouds, the roughness of a stone and, as a multimedia artist, I record these observations in paintings and spaces, real and virtual.
My art is transformation. Experiments with form, material, idea are important to me. I mix the incompatible, because new meanings are born on the borders of the unrelated. I love paradoxes and believe that uniqueness lives in each person.
I am attracted to portraits with real, unprocessed emotions. I want to capture faces without masks, filters and caricatures.
Emotion is the basis of art, the first impulse. It makes art personal and universal.
This is how I build bridges between the visible and the felt: through the face - to the inner world, through the brushstroke - to the experience.
Let's be surprised together!
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EXHIBITIONS
2026 Community Center Glinde, 31. Int. art exhibition FORM-A( R )T 2026, Glinde, Germany;
2026 WDC2026, Democracy - THE ARTS CORNER, Frankfurt, Germany;
2025 St. Paul’s Church, Annual Exhibition, Frankfurt, Germany;
2025 Herdt gallery, Solo exhibition by Veronica Arto, Mörfelden-Walldorf, Germany;
2025 Museum Embankment Festival, Frankfurt, Germany;
2025 Art Mozaik gallerie, Santa Fe, USA;
2025 BBK-Frankfurt gallerie, "Die Neuen 2024" (“The New Ones 2024”), Frankfurt, Germany;
2024 St. Paul’s Church, Annual Exhibition, Frankfurt, Germany;
2024 Charity exhibition in the kindergarten, Bad Soden, Germany;
2021 China Cultural center, "Ūdens un krāsu mīlas dziesma" ("A love song of
water and colors"), Riga, Latvia;
2004 LMA exhibition hall, "Florence Group 2004", Riga, Latvia;
2004 Salone de Satelite, "Šūpulis...Pirms" ("Cradle...Before"), Milan, Italy;
2004 Decorative Applied Arts Museum, "Šūpulis...Pirms", Riga, Latvia;
2003 Kipsala exhibition Hall, "Māja, dzīvoklis 2003" ("Home, apartment'03") Riga,
Latvia;
2003 LMA exhibition hall, "Papīrs ir klāt" ("The paper is here"), Riga, Latvia.
EXHIBITIONS
2026 Community Center Glinde, 31. Int. art exhibition FORM-A( R )T 2026, Glinde, Germany;
2026 WDC2026, Democracy - THE ARTS CORNER, Frankfurt, Germany;
2025 St. Paul’s Church, Annual Exhibition, Frankfurt, Germany;
2025 Herdt gallery, Solo exhibition by Veronica Arto, Mörfelden-Walldorf, Germany;
2025 Museum Embankment Festival, Frankfurt, Germany;
2025 Art Mozaik gallerie, Santa Fe, USA;
2025 BBK-Frankfurt gallerie, "Die Neuen 2024" (“The New Ones 2024”), Frankfurt, Germany;
2024 St. Paul’s Church, Annual Exhibition, Frankfurt, Germany;
2024 Charity exhibition in the kindergarten, Bad Soden, Germany;
2021 China Cultural center, "Ūdens un krāsu mīlas dziesma" ("A love song of
water and colors"), Riga, Latvia;
2004 LMA exhibition hall, "Florence Group 2004", Riga, Latvia;
2004 Salone de Satelite, "Šūpulis...Pirms" ("Cradle...Before"), Milan, Italy;
2004 Decorative Applied Arts Museum, "Šūpulis...Pirms", Riga, Latvia;
2003 Kipsala exhibition Hall, "Māja, dzīvoklis 2003" ("Home, apartment'03") Riga,
Latvia;
2003 LMA exhibition hall, "Papīrs ir klāt" ("The paper is here"), Riga, Latvia.