Artist Talk with Vera Vorneweg: When Literature Moves Spaces
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When Language Transforms Spaces: Artist Talk with Vera Vorneweg
On Thursday, October 15, 2026, Vera Vorneweg invites you to an artist talk in Düsseldorf about her site-specific text installation for the 25th anniversary of the Düsseldorf Literature Prize. The event begins at 7:00 PM at the Off-Space by Stadtsparkasse Düsseldorf.
An Installation between Literature and Contemporary Art
Vera Vorneweg connects literature, visual poetry, and art in public spaces. For the anniversary, she inscribed two elevators of the gallery of the forum with texts from the first and last pages of the works of all 25 previous prize winners, as well as excerpts from the praises. This creates a site-specific text installation from everyday movement spaces, intertwining reading, walking, and spatial perception.
Language as Material
The artist has been working with texts in public spaces since 2020, writing on walls, stones, cars, chairs, and shutters. Her works detach language from its usual usage and explore how words, through arrangement, location, and context, create a new aesthetic experience. The examination of the works thus leads directly into central questions of contemporary conceptual art and visual poetry.
A Conversation about Process and Perception
In conversation with art historian and managing director of the art and culture foundation Katharina Wettwer, Vera Vorneweg provides insight into her artistic working process and the selection of the texts used. The exhibition atmosphere is created not only by the written word but also by the movement within the building: elevators become carriers of memory, literature, and cultural history.
Artistic Classification
Vera Vorneweg, born in 1985, studied social work and philosophy in Düsseldorf and Israel. In addition to text works in public spaces, she publishes in anthologies and magazines. Her debut work No Word Back was published in 2022. Her awards and grants include the Harald Gerlach Prize, the NRW Artist Scholarship, and a mentoring program with Marion Poschmann.
With her site-specific text works, Vorneweg represents an art practice that translates literature from the book into urban space. The artist talk offers a concentrated encounter with an art form that slows down perception and imbues familiar paths with new meanings.
Conclusion: Literature Becomes Spatial Experience
Visitors can expect an inspiring art experience between installation, literature discussion, and cultural education. Anyone who wants to experience how language transforms architecture and brings memory into motion should not miss this evening at the Düsseldorf Off-Space.
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