Veronika Kvitko, known as Vegesent, is a multidisciplinary artist whose work explores environmental responsibility and animal welfare through a conceptual approach. Using sustainable materials and reduced forms, her practice challenges normalised systems of ecological harm and violence toward non-humans.
Her artistic perspective was shaped early by direct involvement in animal slaughter, which developed a lasting respect for interspecies relationships and ethical responsibility. These experiences continue to inform both her subject matter and material choices.
A core principle of her practice is letting materials speak for themselves. Local, reclaimed, biodegradable, recycled or traces of human consumption form the physical language of her reliefs. Through close study of each material’s behaviour, she shapes and refines the surface by reduction rather than addition, removing everything nonessential. This restraint sharpens the work’s tension and allows its meaning to emerge without visual excess.
Across this practice, ethical clarity and aesthetic precision operate together: the work advocates not through narrative illustration but through conceptual and material truth.
She received the Vegan Choice Award in 2024 in recognition of her outstanding cultural impact through art. She also serves as Vice Chairperson of the Helsinki International Artists Association.
Her works have been exhibited in Helsinki’s largest cultural center, Cable Factory, and Helsinki City Museum, and published in international magazines and books, such as “100 artists of Europe”.