Veronika Schäpers

Veronika Schäpers (she/her) was born in Coesfeld, Germany in 1969. She was trained as a bookbinder/craft for three years before she studied at the Hochschule für Kunst und Design Burg Giebichenstein Halle (D), where she graduated in 1996 with a diploma specialized in painting and books. After a three months scholarship with the Centro del bel Libro, Ascona, (CH) followed by a nine months scholarship with Naoaki Sakamoto in Tokyo, (J), she started in 1998 to work as a free-lance book artist and build up her own atelier in Tokyo. In 2012, Schäpers moved back to Germany and now lives and works in Karlsruhe .