Verónica Lehner’s practice (Cali, Colombia, 1980) unfolds at the intersection of painting, sculpture, and spatial intervention. Her work investigates the possibilities of painting when the pictorial plane is destabilized and displaced into space as a material and perceptual field of action.

In Lehner’s work, painting ceases to assert itself as a surface and instead operates as a physical and temporal process. Pigment, support, gravity, and gesture participate in a shared system of relations in which painting involves letting matter fall, accumulate, suspend, or act on its own terms. The image emerges as a provisional state, shaped by tensions between control and contingency.

Lehner approaches painting as a form of embodied thinking. The gesture does not culminate in the visible mark but continues through its effects—residues, displacements, and transformations—that register duration and an ongoing negotiation with materials. Her works function simultaneously as concrete objects and perceptual situations: unst configurations in which space does not contain painting but is instead configured through it. Her practice suggests that painting has always been a spatial and bodily event whose condition historically remained contained.

Verónica Lehner holds an MA in Spatial Strategies from the Weißensee School of Art, Berlin, Germany, and a BFA from Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia. Her solo exhibitions include Dripping, Dropping, Crawling, Mommsen Galerie, Berlin (2022); Suspender, Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá (2019); Ejercicios de complicidad o la obstinación de lo mutable, SGR, Bogotá (2019); and Defectos lineales o dislocaciones, Espacio Odeón, Bogotá (2017). Selected group exhibitions include Corriente de fondo, Cámara de Comercio de Bogotá (2024); Aliens Are Temporary, Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin (2022); A Room Is Made Up of Other Spaces, Proxyco Gallery, New York (2018); and The Way Things Fall, Musée FRAC Pays de la Loire, France (2017). She has been an artist-in-residence at the Ateliers Internationaux of FRAC Pays de la Loire, France, and at Changdong Residency, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA), Seoul, South Korea. Her work is held in the collections of FRAC Pays de la Loire, Banco de la República de Colombia, and Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá (MAMBO).