Vera Kox - Sentient Soil

In her sculptural work, Vera Kox explores the interconnection between the environment, human, and non-human life forms. She examines the multifaceted properties of various materials and often combines handcrafted ceramic elements with industrially produced semi-finished products, which in her installations merge into a cohesive whole as fossilised hybrids of our modern civilisation.

During her research expeditions to climatically extreme natural regions and international residencies, Kox gathers impressions and imprints, which she processes into a new multimedia body of work. In Sentient Soil, her first institutional solo exhibition in Luxembourg, Vera Kox presents a selection of older works as well as a series of work specially produced for her exhibition at Konschthal Esch, inviting visitors to immerse themselves in unusual environments.

Vera Kox (b. 1984, Frankfurt am Main) is a German-Luxembourgish artist who lives and works between Berlin and Luxembourg. Her work has been exhibited internationally in numerous institutions and galleries, including the Stavanger Art Museum, Esch2022 Sculpture Trail, Skulpturen Triennale (Bingen), Galleri Opdahl (Stavanger), Cosar (Düsseldorf), Kunstraum Bethanien (Berlin), Ribot (Milan), the KINDL - Centre for Contemporary Art (Berlin), the regional museum of contemporary art Occitanie MRAC (Sérignan) and Mudam Luxembourg (Luxembourg). In 2023, she was a resident at CERCCO - the Experimentation and Research Centre for Contemporary Ceramics of the Geneva University of Art and Design, and in 2024 she is a resident at Cerámica Suro in Guadalajara, Mexico and at the Bridderhaus, Esch/Alzette.

The exhibition and accompanying publication is kindly supported by the Bourse Fondation Schleich-Lentz, a foundation under the aegis of the Fondation de Luxembourg, the Bert Theis Grant from the National Cultural Fund, the National Cultural Fund and the Ministry of Culture, Kultur LX, by Cerámica Suro, Guadalajara, by the Experimentation and Research Centre for Contemporary Ceramics of the Geneva University of Art and Design (CERCCO) of the HEAD - Geneva and the Fondation d’Été.