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Veronika Janovec’s work engages with the material language of clay to examine cycles of growth, fracture, and reconstruction. With a background in architecture, her pieces emerge through processes of reduction and rupture, suggesting a gradual transformation. The forms are often suspended in states of becoming - cracked, hollowed, scorched, yet standing. Glazes mimic the patina of metal or stone, lending each piece a timeless quality, at once ancient and futuristic.

Her work navigates dualities: growth and decay, fragility and resilience. Whether upright and shield-like or softly split open, the sculptures evoke archetypal forms - vessels, wings, nests - while resisting fixed definition. Through material simplicity and tactile presence, the works invite a close, contemplative kind of looking.

Repetition and variation are central to her process. Fragmented elements are collected, copied, decontextualized, and recomposed into shifting constellations that speak of a beauty nearing collapse - fragile, yet enduring. She is interested in what remains through decay, and in how fracture can reveal a deeper kind of beauty.

Her work has been exhibited in Berlin, Düsseldorf, Cologne, Montreal, and Mexico City.