Veronika Obushikhina

Short Biography

Veronika was born in Russia in 1976 and moved to Spain in 2010. Before turning to painting, she worked in other creative fields, including jewellery making. That experience shaped the precision that now runs through her paintings. From 2023 she studied contemporary art and, in 2025, completed her studies at the Institute of Mediterranean Culture. Since then her work has been shown in Europe and the United States and has entered museum and private collections. In 2026 she was selected for the Biennale di Chianciano in Italy and named a finalist of the OSTEN Biennial in Skopje. She has also been selected for the Rome Triennale 2027.

Education

Veronika studied at the International School of Contemporary Creativity from 2023 to 2024. In 2025 she completed the Art Communication Online School by Julia Sysalova at the Institute of Mediterranean Culture.

Exhibitions

Veronika’s work has been shown in group exhibitions in Spain, Italy, Germany and the United States. In 2026 she took part in ‘A Beautiful Horizon’ at MEAM, Museu Europeu d’Art Modern, Barcelona, in June. In July she showed in the TFAG x Artsy group exhibition in Málaga and in ‘Code Error / The Perspectives’, part of the Eden.exe project at the 48 Stunden Neukölln festival in Berlin. In August her work appeared at the Biennale di Chianciano at the Chianciano Art Museum, Chianciano Terme, Italy. From August to September she showed in ‘Collective Contemporary’ at Abartium Art Gallery in Calldetenes, Barcelona. That year she was also a finalist at the OSTEN Biennial in Skopje, North Macedonia, and was presented by Artseeker Gallery at the Affordable Art Fair Austin in the United States. Earlier exhibitions include ‘Kaleidoscope: Small Worlds’ at Art Mozaik Fine Art Gallery in Santa Fe (2025), and ‘Gift of Creative Awareness’ and ‘Flying in Dreams, Answer in Real Life’ in Barcelona (2023). In February 2027 she will take part in the Rome Triennale.

Awards

In 2026 the CODE ERROR project, in which Veronika took part, received the Best Group Presentation Award at the OSTEN Biennial in Skopje.

Artistic Style

Veronika works with only a few basic elements: form, color, line and space. Her work asks how much an image can express when its means are pared back. She does not begin with a story or a symbol. Each work starts as a visual question: what shape a line can take, how color changes the way a form is seen, or how a few balanced elements can create a sense of space. For her, minimalism is a way of drawing attention to what matters most and letting form speak for itself. Precision is central to her process, a habit she traces back to jewellery making. A line that looks simple is often the result of hours spent adjusting angles, distances and proportions, sometimes down to the millimetre.

Additional Information

Veronika’s work is held in the permanent collection of the Chianciano Art Museum in Italy and in private collections in Europe and the United States. Since 2026 she has been working with Haven & Hue Art Consultancy on commissioned artworks for a residential villa project in Mallorca, Spain. In 2026 la Repubblica published a feature on her for the Biennale di Chianciano.