Entrelazarse, Venus y el mar
| Edition | Original Art |
|---|---|
| Sujet | Mythology and Symbolism |
| Technique | Painting |
| Height | 180 cm |
| Width | 160 cm |
| Length/Depth | 5 cm |
Oil on canvas, 2025
This diptych is a visual poem about origin, change and the formation of identity in the space between. Two cultures stand opposite one another – not as opposites, but as poles of an inner movement. The water that separates them is, at the same time, what connects them: the sea as a place of crossing, of transformation, of new beginnings.
Two figures of Venus symbolise these poles. One stands for origin, for memories, language and early forms of being. The other represents the unknown, that which is yet to be invented, an open future. They reach out to join hands in the centre of the picture – a quiet, meaningful moment. Where they meet, a self-portrait of me emerges – as an artist, as someone who lives between cultures and finds her place within them. It is an in-between state, a way of making visible that which is both.
Venus appears here as an ambiguous figure: origin and movement, love and change, myth and possibility. She is the unifying principle that does not separate but unites – across the water that carries everything.
This work is not only a reflection on transculturality, but also a personal portrayal of my own becoming: of living between worlds, of the creative potential of hybridity, of identity as something fluid.
Exhibited at Farbenladen, Munich, 2025 – “Biophilia”
Shipping:
The work will be shipped stretched on a stretcher frame – including a certificate of authenticity and a signature on the reverse.
Juliana Gutiérrez Wiest
based in Munich, Germany.
Born in 1998 in Colombia.
Bachelor of Arts
in Multimedia Art, Ludwig-Maximilians University.
A dream that feels intense and almost real, but which seems impossible to remember. A dream in which everything irrational makes sense and in which our true selves can express themselves freely, uninfluenced by the outside world. This is where Juliana finds her inspiration. Just like the Surrealists, she employs the technique of automatic drawing to sketch dreams whilst still in a semi-conscious state. Juliana combines abstract elements that embody the hazy memories of her Colombian homeland with precisely rendered sculptures that are visually reminiscent of European classicism. These depict the people who are part of our lives or who influence them. Some with greater intensity, others only faintly, almost forgotten. Nevertheless, each of them is or was significant. Dreams, too, shape us in a similar way. We can no longer remember many of them, but they still reside in our subconscious. They help us with decisions and occasionally provide us with answers.
The artist Juliana Gutiérrez Wiest does not choose the traditional canvas as her medium, but aluminium. This material brings the artwork to life; it absorbs light or reflects it back. At times it appears brighter, at others darker. This effect helps to create a blurred world.
During her art and multimedia studies at Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, Juliana learnt to combine the analogue world with the digital. She brings her artworks to life through projection, with the aim of enabling the viewer to immerse themselves in her works.
A R T E X H I B I T I
O NS
- Ephemeral Spaces with Hope Bartley – May 2026, Munich
- Small-scale exhibition ‘Who am I’ - December 2025 to February 2026
- ‘Biophilia’ – group exhibition at Farbenladen, Munich January 2025
- ‘Happy End’ x Broke Today – room installation with Stephanie Wiest – Munich - November 2024
- TME Associates, Munich x Gallery Lau “Diversity” in collaboration with artists Quint Buchholz and SIME June 2024
- URSPRUNG Gallery Lau x Vontobel – Goldberg Studios, Munich May 2024
- Small-scale
- exhibition “Preziosen” - December 2023 to February 2024
- VISUAL ESCAPISM – 6 May – 4 June 2023 – KUNSTLABOR 2
- ARTMUC - 24 March – 26 March 2023
- BACK TO THE FUTURE – Group exhibition – Gallery Lau
- ARTMUC - 7 October – 9 October 2022
- CONNECT - Ludwig Maximilian University Graduation Exhibition 15 July – 17 July KUNSTLABOR 2022 MUNICH
- Pop-up Gallery – Student Art Market – 13 May – 15 May 2022 Leipzig
- WEITSICHT - Gallery Lau & VONTOBEL BANK – 12 March 2022
Olympiaturm, Munich
- CONNECTIONS: 4 TOGETHERNESS – Gallery Lau, Munich
April 2022 - June 2022
- Winter Exhibition “All good things come in small packages” – December 2020 – March 2021 Gallery Lau, Munich
