Vesna Hetzel
Baden Württemberg – Catalunya Exchange Grant
setembre - octubre 2024
Vesna Hetzel
Vesna Hetzel is an artist, art mediator and somatic movement facilitator. Her practice is inspired by the intersection of these fields, intertwining the politics and poetics of the body, space and narration.
The artistic inquiries manifest in various forms and mediums, including audio-visual work / video, performance, drawing, writing and sculpture. Participatory ways of sharing artistic research and methodologies are often integral to the artistic practice.
Her work explores the experience of liminality and the potential of the in-between from a feminist perspective. It oscillates between form and process, lived experience and the medium, immediacy and reflection, intimacy and the nation-state, inside and outside, virtuality and flesh, proximity, connection and rejection.
It seeks the potential for holding complexity, the emergence of overlaps, movements between binaries, meeting points, and the dissolution of territorialities. This encompasses both the geographical and the somatic body, critiquing the territorial violence and axes of power that are intruding both.
Vesna Hetzel studied at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart and the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem. In 2023, she graduated with a process-based research project focused on Hydro-Feminism, exploring the shore as a metaphorical, physical, political, sensual, liminal and queer space. Her education has been supported by scholarships from the Heinrich-Böll Stiftung and the Baden-Württemberg-Stiftung. Her works have been exhibited (amongst others) at Collection Fröhlich Leinfelden, Halle 14 Leipzig, Galerie Oberwelt e.V., Lindenmuseum Stuttgart and the Labour Court / Arbeitsgericht Stuttgart, receiving funding on a regular basis.
