Veronika Dräxler is a German-Ecuadorian media and performance artist. Her research explores how trauma, memory, and resilience shape cultural landscapes. Working across media and performance, she investigates energy transformations through rupture and repair, using material metaphors — broken branches, preserved biomass, camouflage patterns and her own body — to trace survival, diplomacy, and negotiation. Her practice examines how to navigate visible and invisible architectures shaped by conflict and healing.
She holds a diploma from the Academy of Fine Arts Munich (2017) and a Meisterschüler degree from the Berlin University of the Arts (2022). Solo exhibitions include Traces of Life / How to Kill (Kunstverein Grafschaft Bentheim, 2022/23), Beuys, Rückruf: Dringend! (galerie weisser elefant, 2021), and Post Everything Ritualism & Hypernaturality (GEDOKmuc, 2019). She has exhibited internationally in group exhibition under other at a.topos, Venice; Motorenhalle, Dresden; Museo Pumapungo, Ecuador; and Manifesta 11, Zurich.
Between 2007 and 2017, she developed Selbstdarstellungssucht.de, an artistic research platform on digital identity, awarded the "Kultur- und Kreativpiloten Deutschland" prize (2015). Her projects have been supported by the Foundation of Niedersachsen, the Bavarian Ministry of Science and Art, and the EU Delegation to Ukraine. She has presented her research at Falling Walls Science Week, State Studio Berlin, the Young Security Conference, and the the Sorbonne.
She lives and works between Munich and Paris.