Viktoria Salma
About the Artist
Viktoria Salma’s artwork ranges from paintings and large-format drawings to altered Polaroids and paper sculptures. She explores the tension between the rational and the mystical, often represented by the relationship between human beings and nature, and is in search of the lost universal connection. To this end, she draws inspiration from myths and legends especially of indigenous animistic ideas, always searching for a resonance within herself.
Her works are created intuitively and evolve into a complete work through a dialogue with the surface, in which the elements of classical fuguration and modern abstraction are combined. The atmosphere in which they are created plays a special role. For example, her works in the ‘Tunkashila’ series were developed directly on site at a Lakota ceremonial site. For her latest project ‘Under the Ice’, she moved her studio to the forests in Sweden to immerse herself even more deeply in the feeling of being close to nature.
The development of her artistic style was influenced, among others, by the ‘Capriccios’ and ‘Pinturas negras’ by Francisco de Goya, works by Eugène Carrière, Egon Schiele, Francis Bacon, Cy Twombly and Rick Bartow.
Viktoria Salma, born in 1980, graduated University of Arts in Berlin in 2010 (Social and Business Communications) and worked in the marketing department of a big telecommunications company in Bonn, Germany, until 2022. Regular exhibition activity since 2020, both in Germany and internationally. Many of her works are in private collections.
Memberships
2020 – German Pastel Society
2022 – Society of Female Artists, Bonn, Germany (GEDOK)
2023 – Federal Association of Professional Visual Artists Bonn-Rhein-Sieg, Germany (BBK Bonn-Rhein-Sieg)
2024 – Konstnärscentrum Väst, Sverige
Solo and duo exhibitions
November 2024
Under the Ice – Solo exhibition, Haus der Theatergemende Bonn, DE
June 2023
Tunkashila – Solo exhibition, Kurfürstliches Gärtnerhaus,
Bonn, DE
July 2021
Faces of Nature – Countenance of Time – Double exhibition, Glaskarree, Kunstverein Bad Godesberg e.V., Bonn, DE
Group exhibitions
July 2024
Dalslandsalong 2024 – Steneby konsthall, Dals Långed, SE
Oktober 2023
The New Ones – Group exhibition of female artists at GIZ (Society for International Cooperation), Bonn, DE
July 2023
BBK open – Group exhibition of Federal Association of Professional Visual Artists Bonn-Rhein-Sieg, Bonn, DE
April 2023
Almost Forgotten – Group exhibition of female artists, Troisdorf, DE
February 2023
Black -White 2023 – Ash Wednesday of Artists – Haus an der Redoute, Bad Godesberg, Bonn, DE
Oktober 2022
Faszination Pastel. 3. Group exhibition of German Pastel Society, Herne, DE
July 2022
15. Wachtberg Culture Weeks, Wachtberg, DE
June 2022
DO NOT GO OUT THE WINDOW – HAZEGALLERY, Berlin, DE
March 2022
Black -White 2022 – Ash Wednesday of Artists – Haus an der Redoute, Bad Godesberg, Bonn, DE
June 2021
The Concept of Authenticity (virtual) – HAZEGALLERY, Berlin, DE
June 2021
6. Group exhibition of Russian Pastell Society (virtual)
March 2021
PERSONA (virtual) – THE HOLY ART, London, UK
January 2021
IDENTITY (virtual) – THE HOLY ART, London, UK
January 2021
ARTBOX.PROJECT World 1.0 (Semi-finalist) – ARTBOX.GALLERY Zürich, CH
January 2021
Selected for „Self Reflections“ exhibition of Foundry Art Centre, St. Charles USA (participation cancelled due to COVID-19 restrictions)
November 2020
Online group exhibition of German Pastel Society
August 2020
ARTBOX.PROJECT Zürich 2.0 – ARTBOX.GALLERY Zürich
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