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!
CV
E D U C A T I O N
2025 WDC (World Design Capital) - Regulars' table, Frankfurt, Germany;
2025 Course "How to Build a Path to Success as an Artist" at the Online Art Communication School by Julia Sysalova (Athens, Greece);
2025 Course "Interior Artist" at the Ludmila Lipovskaya Online School of Interior Painting;
2017 Unity 5: 3D Essential Training;
2017 Substance Painter Essential Training;
2002-2006 Art Academy of Latvia (LMA), Bachelor of Environmental Art;
2004 Creative workshop "Šūpulis" ("Cradle"), LMA, Riga, Latvia;
2003 Study trip to Salone de Satelite, Milan, Italy;
2000-2002 Riga School of Design and Art (RDMV), Environmental Design;
1994-2000 Riga secondary school Nr. 55;
1998 Creative workshop "Visapkārt ūdens" ("Water all around") RMS, Riga, Latvia;
1992-1994 Daugavpils secondary school Nr. 5;
1989-1993 Daugavpils art school;
1989-1992 Daugavpils secondary school Nr. 9.
E X H I B I T I O N S
2026 June WDC2026, Stage 4 of Project “Four Dimensions” in Programm des BBK-Frankfurt “Democracy - THE ARTS CORNER”, Frankfurt, Germany;
2026 May WDC2026, Stage 3 of Project “Four Dimensions” in Programm des BBK-Frankfurt “Democracy - THE ARTS CORNER”, Frankfurt, Germany;
2026 April WDC2026, Stage 2 of Project “Four Dimensions” in Programm des BBK-Frankfurt “Democracy - THE ARTS CORNER”, Frankfurt, Germany;
2026 Bürgerhaus Glinde, 31. Int. Kunstausstellung FORM-A( R )T 2026, Glinde, Germany;
2026 March WDC2026, Stage 1 of Project “Four Dimensions” in Programm des BBK-Frankfurt “Democracy - THE ARTS CORNER”, Frankfurt, Germany;
2025 St. Paul’s Church, Annual Exhibition 2025, Frankfurt, Germany;
2025 Erika Herdt gallery, A solo exhibition by Veronika Arto, Mörfelden-Walldorf, Germany;
2025 Museumuferfest’25, Frankfurt, Germany;
2025 Art Mozaik gallerie, Kaleidoscope art show, Santa Fe, USA;
2025 BBK-Frankfurt gallerie, Die Neuen 2024, Frankfurt, Germany;
2024 St. Paul’s Church, Annual Exhibition 2024, 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 Art Academy of Latvia (LMA), Florence Group 2004, Riga, Latvia;
2004 Salone de Satelite, Šūpulis...Pirms (Cradle...Before"), Milan, Italy;
2004 Ungur manor, Šūpulis...Pirms, Raiskums district, Latvia;
2004 Decorative Applied Arts Museum, Šūpulis...Pirms, Riga, Latvia;
2003 Kipsala Exhibition Hall, Māja, dzīvoklis 2003 (Home, appartment'03), Riga, Latvia;
2003 LMA exhibition hall, Papīrs ir klāt (The paper is here), Riga, Latvia;
1998 Riga art school (RMS), Visapkārt ūdens (Water all around), Riga, Latvia;
1997 Kipsala exhibition hall, Skola 1997 (School 1997), Riga, Latvia;
About 1995 Exhibition in the House of Congresses, Riga, Latvia.
E D U C A T I O N A L& C R E A T I V E A C T I V I TI E S
2026 Master-class, textured painting for Beginners;
2025 2 Master-classes, textured painting for Beginners;
2024 4 Master-classes, watercolor for Beginners;
2009-2010 Creative classes for children in independently organized childrengarten, Riga, Latvia;
A W A R D & A C H I E V E M E N T S
Winning the competition for the opportunity to participate in 52. Kunstausstellung der Stadt Rodgau.
The "Four Dimensions" project won a competition to participate in the Hands ON Festival’s 2026 Fellowship Program.
Winning the competition for the opportunity to participate in Affortable Art Fair Stokholm, 2026.
Winning the competition for the opportunity to participate in 31. Int. Kunstausstellung FORM-A( R )T 2026, Glinde, Germany.
Winning the competition for the opportunity to take a part in a Programm ofBBK-Frankfurt “Democracy - THE ARTS CORNER” in WDC2026, Frankfurt, Germany.
2nd place at public survey on Devgamm showcase 2018 with the game "Night is coming".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=276&v=zCUKxqCztvc
2nd place in 3D speed sculpting №78 - «Peter Dinklage" on render.ru in 2014.
http://www.render.ru/xen/threads/78-peter-dinklage.156076/page-3#post-1114393
1st place in the competition for studies for half of the year in UIAH (the University
of Art and Design Helsinki) in Finland, specialty - environmental art in 2005.
M E M B E R S H I P
Member of the International Art Club by Julia Sysalova (headquartered in Greece) since 2025.
Member of the Professional Association of Visual Artists Frankfurt (BBK-Frankfurt) since 2024. (https://www.bbk-frankfurt.de/)
Member of the Langen Water Sports Club (WSV) since 2018.
P U B L I C A T I O N S
Post auf Instagram “Fellows beim Hands On Festival” von kreativpilot_innen, 09.07.2026.
https://www.instagram.com/p/DZYO-BUgLc7/?__d=1
Hands On Festival 2026, 09.07.2026.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLAa79WlsD4&t=10s
Repost auf Instagram “Invitation to the 3st Stage of the "4D" project presentation!” von bbk_frankfurt_am_main, 24.05.2026.
https://www.instagram.com/p/DYstgeuCS8L/
Repost auf Instagram “The fitting process.” von bbk_frankfurt_am_main, 08.05.2026.
https://www.instagram.com/p/DWYNUahgvqb/
Repost auf Instagram “Invitation to the 2st Stage of the "4D" project presentation!” von bbk_frankfurt_am_main, 05.05.2026.
https://www.instagram.com/p/DX9rG0GAuBZ/?img_index=1
"Four Dimensions во Франкфурте: проект Вероники Арто в программе World Design Capital 2026", TITANIUM, online, отд. Культура, 29.04.2026.
https://www.titanium.lv/four-dimensions-vo-frankfurte-proekt-veroniki-arto-v-programme-world-design-capital-2026/
Repost auf Instagram “Wie wir sehen, was wir sehen.” von bbk_frankfurt_am_main, 23.04.2026.
https://www.instagram.com/p/DXetHMIAvz3/
"Menschenrechte auf dem Boden", Frankfurter Rundschau/Kreis Offenbach, 30.3.2026, Seite 42.
Repost auf Instagram “Beitrag der Frankfurter Rundschaul“von friederike.muehleck und bbk_frankfurt_am_main, 27.03.2026.
https://www.instagram.com/p/DWZyKqjjWXR/
"Menschrechte auf den Boden ausgerollt", Offenbach Post (OP), Seite 31, 27.03.2026
“Eine Ecke für Kunst und Demokratie”, Frankfurter Rundschau (FR), online, 26.03.2026.
https://www.fr.de/frankfurt/eine-ecke-fuer-kunst-und-demokratie-94237331.html
"Auf dem Weg der Menschenrechte", Frankfurter Neuen Presse (FNP)/ Stadtteile, Page 29, 25.03.2026.
Repost auf Instagram “Invitation to the 1st Stage of the "4D" project presentation!” von bbk_frankfurt_am_main, 08.03.2026.
https://www.instagram.com/p/DVmeQjqgpKG/
Post auf Instagram “ERLEBE DEN RAUM NEU!” von bbk_frankfurt_am_main, 08.03.2026.
https://www.instagram.com/p/DVoiqAAjkKr/
Post auf Instagram “Sneak Peek” von bbk_frankfurt_am_main, 24.03.2026.
https://www.instagram.com/p/DWR9DoSDvbw/?img_index=1
Event Kalender, WDC, online, March 2026.
BBK-Frankfurt Program “Democracy – THE ARTS CORNER”, WDC, online, March 2026.
https://wdc2026.org/de/frames/four-dimensions
Landing page for the BBK Frankfurt program „Democracy – THE ARTS CORNER“: Die Kunst der Demokratie, BBK-Frankfurt, online, Oktober 2025.
https://wdc.bbk-frankfurt.de/
SPAZI DI CARTA, Cinque anni di Spazi di Carta, Page 66, 2008.
https://www.comieco.org/downloads/6215/1759/1759_sdc-08-lr-definitivo__24983.pdf
Florences grupas darbu izstāde, tvnet, 24.05.2004. https://sejas.tvnet.lv/6211089/florences-grupas-darbu-izstade
E D U C A T I O N
2025 WDC (World Design Capital) - Regulars' table, Frankfurt, Germany;
2025 Course "How to Build a Path to Success as an Artist" at the Online Art Communication School by Julia Sysalova (Athens, Greece);
2025 Course "Interior Artist" at the Ludmila Lipovskaya Online School of Interior Painting;
2017 Unity 5: 3D Essential Training;
2017 Substance Painter Essential Training;
2002-2006 Art Academy of Latvia (LMA), Bachelor of Environmental Art;
2004 Creative workshop "Šūpulis" ("Cradle"), LMA, Riga, Latvia;
2003 Study trip to Salone de Satelite, Milan, Italy;
2000-2002 Riga School of Design and Art (RDMV), Environmental Design;
1994-2000 Riga secondary school Nr. 55;
1998 Creative workshop "Visapkārt ūdens" ("Water all around") RMS, Riga, Latvia;
1992-1994 Daugavpils secondary school Nr. 5;
1989-1993 Daugavpils art school;
1989-1992 Daugavpils secondary school Nr. 9.
E X H I B I T I O N S
2026 June WDC2026, Stage 4 of Project “Four Dimensions” in Programm des BBK-Frankfurt “Democracy - THE ARTS CORNER”, Frankfurt, Germany;
2026 May WDC2026, Stage 3 of Project “Four Dimensions” in Programm des BBK-Frankfurt “Democracy - THE ARTS CORNER”, Frankfurt, Germany;
2026 April WDC2026, Stage 2 of Project “Four Dimensions” in Programm des BBK-Frankfurt “Democracy - THE ARTS CORNER”, Frankfurt, Germany;
2026 Bürgerhaus Glinde, 31. Int. Kunstausstellung FORM-A( R )T 2026, Glinde, Germany;
2026 March WDC2026, Stage 1 of Project “Four Dimensions” in Programm des BBK-Frankfurt “Democracy - THE ARTS CORNER”, Frankfurt, Germany;
2025 St. Paul’s Church, Annual Exhibition 2025, Frankfurt, Germany;
2025 Erika Herdt gallery, A solo exhibition by Veronika Arto, Mörfelden-Walldorf, Germany;
2025 Museumuferfest’25, Frankfurt, Germany;
2025 Art Mozaik gallerie, Kaleidoscope art show, Santa Fe, USA;
2025 BBK-Frankfurt gallerie, Die Neuen 2024, Frankfurt, Germany;
2024 St. Paul’s Church, Annual Exhibition 2024, 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 Art Academy of Latvia (LMA), Florence Group 2004, Riga, Latvia;
2004 Salone de Satelite, Šūpulis...Pirms (Cradle...Before"), Milan, Italy;
2004 Ungur manor, Šūpulis...Pirms, Raiskums district, Latvia;
2004 Decorative Applied Arts Museum, Šūpulis...Pirms, Riga, Latvia;
2003 Kipsala Exhibition Hall, Māja, dzīvoklis 2003 (Home, appartment'03), Riga, Latvia;
2003 LMA exhibition hall, Papīrs ir klāt (The paper is here), Riga, Latvia;
1998 Riga art school (RMS), Visapkārt ūdens (Water all around), Riga, Latvia;
1997 Kipsala exhibition hall, Skola 1997 (School 1997), Riga, Latvia;
About 1995 Exhibition in the House of Congresses, Riga, Latvia.
E D U C A T I O N A L& C R E A T I V E A C T I V I TI E S
2026 Master-class, textured painting for Beginners;
2025 2 Master-classes, textured painting for Beginners;
2024 4 Master-classes, watercolor for Beginners;
2009-2010 Creative classes for children in independently organized childrengarten, Riga, Latvia;
A W A R D & A C H I E V E M E N T S
Winning the competition for the opportunity to participate in 52. Kunstausstellung der Stadt Rodgau.
The "Four Dimensions" project won a competition to participate in the Hands ON Festival’s 2026 Fellowship Program.
Winning the competition for the opportunity to participate in Affortable Art Fair Stokholm, 2026.
Winning the competition for the opportunity to participate in 31. Int. Kunstausstellung FORM-A( R )T 2026, Glinde, Germany.
Winning the competition for the opportunity to take a part in a Programm ofBBK-Frankfurt “Democracy - THE ARTS CORNER” in WDC2026, Frankfurt, Germany.
2nd place at public survey on Devgamm showcase 2018 with the game "Night is coming".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=276&v=zCUKxqCztvc
2nd place in 3D speed sculpting №78 - «Peter Dinklage" on render.ru in 2014.
http://www.render.ru/xen/threads/78-peter-dinklage.156076/page-3#post-1114393
1st place in the competition for studies for half of the year in UIAH (the University
of Art and Design Helsinki) in Finland, specialty - environmental art in 2005.
M E M B E R S H I P
Member of the International Art Club by Julia Sysalova (headquartered in Greece) since 2025.
Member of the Professional Association of Visual Artists Frankfurt (BBK-Frankfurt) since 2024. (https://www.bbk-frankfurt.de/)
Member of the Langen Water Sports Club (WSV) since 2018.
P U B L I C A T I O N S
Post auf Instagram “Fellows beim Hands On Festival” von kreativpilot_innen, 09.07.2026.
https://www.instagram.com/p/DZYO-BUgLc7/?__d=1
Hands On Festival 2026, 09.07.2026.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLAa79WlsD4&t=10s
Repost auf Instagram “Invitation to the 3st Stage of the "4D" project presentation!” von bbk_frankfurt_am_main, 24.05.2026.
https://www.instagram.com/p/DYstgeuCS8L/
Repost auf Instagram “The fitting process.” von bbk_frankfurt_am_main, 08.05.2026.
https://www.instagram.com/p/DWYNUahgvqb/
Repost auf Instagram “Invitation to the 2st Stage of the "4D" project presentation!” von bbk_frankfurt_am_main, 05.05.2026.
https://www.instagram.com/p/DX9rG0GAuBZ/?img_index=1
"Four Dimensions во Франкфурте: проект Вероники Арто в программе World Design Capital 2026", TITANIUM, online, отд. Культура, 29.04.2026.
https://www.titanium.lv/four-dimensions-vo-frankfurte-proekt-veroniki-arto-v-programme-world-design-capital-2026/
Repost auf Instagram “Wie wir sehen, was wir sehen.” von bbk_frankfurt_am_main, 23.04.2026.
https://www.instagram.com/p/DXetHMIAvz3/
"Menschenrechte auf dem Boden", Frankfurter Rundschau/Kreis Offenbach, 30.3.2026, Seite 42.
Repost auf Instagram “Beitrag der Frankfurter Rundschaul“von friederike.muehleck und bbk_frankfurt_am_main, 27.03.2026.
https://www.instagram.com/p/DWZyKqjjWXR/
"Menschrechte auf den Boden ausgerollt", Offenbach Post (OP), Seite 31, 27.03.2026
“Eine Ecke für Kunst und Demokratie”, Frankfurter Rundschau (FR), online, 26.03.2026.
https://www.fr.de/frankfurt/eine-ecke-fuer-kunst-und-demokratie-94237331.html
"Auf dem Weg der Menschenrechte", Frankfurter Neuen Presse (FNP)/ Stadtteile, Page 29, 25.03.2026.
Repost auf Instagram “Invitation to the 1st Stage of the "4D" project presentation!” von bbk_frankfurt_am_main, 08.03.2026.
https://www.instagram.com/p/DVmeQjqgpKG/
Post auf Instagram “ERLEBE DEN RAUM NEU!” von bbk_frankfurt_am_main, 08.03.2026.
https://www.instagram.com/p/DVoiqAAjkKr/
Post auf Instagram “Sneak Peek” von bbk_frankfurt_am_main, 24.03.2026.
https://www.instagram.com/p/DWR9DoSDvbw/?img_index=1
Event Kalender, WDC, online, March 2026.
BBK-Frankfurt Program “Democracy – THE ARTS CORNER”, WDC, online, March 2026.
https://wdc2026.org/de/frames/four-dimensions
Landing page for the BBK Frankfurt program „Democracy – THE ARTS CORNER“: Die Kunst der Demokratie, BBK-Frankfurt, online, Oktober 2025.
https://wdc.bbk-frankfurt.de/
SPAZI DI CARTA, Cinque anni di Spazi di Carta, Page 66, 2008.
https://www.comieco.org/downloads/6215/1759/1759_sdc-08-lr-definitivo__24983.pdf
Florences grupas darbu izstāde, tvnet, 24.05.2004. https://sejas.tvnet.lv/6211089/florences-grupas-darbu-izstade