Artist Profile

Vanessa Guendouz-Attems is an Austrian-born visual artist and art educator who studied painting and art education at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. After teaching visual arts in Vienna for six years, she moved to Switzerland, where she continues to live and work. Her multidisciplinary practice spans drawing, painting, and sculpture, responding intuitively to people, animals, landscapes, and the natural world. Inspired by outdoor observation, she incorporates found branches and reclaimed materials such as discarded paper, cardboard, and egg cartons into her work. Through experimentation with diverse materials, Guendouz-Attems embraces discovery, spontaneity, and creative reuse, allowing ideas to emerge naturally through the artistic process.