Daniela Kneip Velescu, born 1982 in Bucharest, Romania, lives and works in Berlin.

Daniela Kneip Velescu preferred to spend her last semester in 2011 in Bucharest rather than in the corridors of the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main. In 2019, she traveled along the Danube with the support of Kunstfonds Bonn. She followed the historical migration route of her mother’s side of the family. The experiences and materials she gathered on this journey formed the basis for her last three exhibitions. The exhibition “Vampire Facelift” at the Kunstverein Grafschaft Bentheim and presentations in Berlin and Frankfurt were at the center of her work. Daniela Kneip Velescu is currently working on the monumental structure of Bucharest and her artistic response to it. The basis for this is a never-published travel guide by her grandfather from the 1970s from her Romanian-Ukrainian branch of the family. She had just obtained her birth certificate there, which she needed to regain her Romanian passport, and viewed her first artifacts.

Daniela Kneip Velescu presents works in the exhibition DISLOCATIONS—within reach.

Daniela Kneip Velescu, born 1982 in Bucharest, Romania, lives and works in Berlin.

Daniela Kneip Velescu preferred to spend her last semester in 2011 in Bucharest rather than in the corridors of the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main. In 2019, she traveled along the Danube with the support of Kunstfonds Bonn. She followed the historical migration route of her mother’s side of the family. The experiences and materials she gathered on this journey formed the basis for her last three exhibitions. The exhibition “Vampire Facelift” at the Kunstverein Grafschaft Bentheim and presentations in Berlin and Frankfurt were at the center of her work. Daniela Kneip Velescu is currently working on the monumental structure of Bucharest and her artistic response to it. The basis for this is a never-published travel guide by her grandfather from the 1970s from her Romanian-Ukrainian branch of the family. She had just obtained her birth certificate there, which she needed to regain her Romanian passport, and viewed her first artifacts.

Daniela Kneip Velescu presents works in the exhibition DISLOCATIONS—within reach.