About
Eric Ventker works with painting and mural practice, focusing on movement, transition, and fragmented perception.
His work does not aim to capture fixed moments, but states in between. Images behave like sequences, where forms shift, overlap, and never fully settle.
He is interested in how perception changes through interruption, rhythm, and partial visibility. A figure is often not shown as a whole, but as fragments that build presence over time.
Rather than defining a fixed style, the work follows situations. Each piece reacts to its own internal logic, like a moment still unfolding.
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Education
2021 to present
Lives and works between Faro, Portugal and Düsseldorf, Germany
2020
Diploma in Fine Arts, Meisterschüler under Siegfried Anzinger
2017 to 2020
Student of Siegfried Anzinger
2014 to 2020
Studies in Fine Arts, Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Germany
1995
Born in Wuppertal, Germany
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2026
Open studios, ArQuente, Faro, Portugal
2025
Entre Tanto, IPDJ, Faro, Portugal
2025
Bravagallery, Vilamoura, Portugal
2010
Mero, Gallery Art Eck, Solingen, Germany
Selected Group Exhibitions
2025
Fluxo, LAC, Lagos, Portugal
2025
Mar de Fora, Galeria Praça do Mar, Quarteira, Portugal
2025
Sens Friends, IPDJ, Faro, Portugal
2025
Peculiar, Vinci 42, Dinslaken, Germany
2024
Counterparts, with Peter Wischnewski, Kunstraum Solingen, Solingen, Germany
2024
Father and Son, with Andre Peer, Töchter und Söhne, Düsseldorf, Germany
2021
Coming to Voice, K21, Düsseldorf, Germany
2016 to 2018
Grand Closing exhibition series, Alte Apotheke and Felix Building, Solingen, Germany
Residencies
2025
ARTURb Residency, LAC, Lagos, Portugal
2024
ARTURb Residency, Social Housing Project, LAC, Lagos, Portugal
Awards
2011
My NRW, 1st Prize, State of North Rhine Westphalia, Germany
Lectureships
2015
Graffiti, Goethe Institute, Saratov, Russia