Verena Pfisterer studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy in the late 1960s, in the entourage of Jörg Immendorff, Katharina Sieverding and Franz Erhard Walther. Typically for that period, the artist’s predominantly conceptual, sculptural works are marked by their social orientation and appeal for the viewer’s participation. In addition, her art focuses on establishing an intense rapport between the body and the space surrounding it, and between art and technology. A crucial role in her slim œuvre is played by her ideas for objects, installations and spaces based on all manner of materials, most of which, however, have never been executed and today still exist only as designs.