Veronika Abdul-Visocka
Maker
Veronika Abdul-Visocka (Latvia) is a theatre maker, writer and performer. In 2025 she graduated from the master’s programme at DAS Theatre. Her work emerges from a power-critical, hybrid perspective. Shaped by the multiple languages, religions and political systems she was raised within, Veronika explores fluidity, multiversality and the capacity for transformation.
Biography
Veronika weaves personal narratives and fiction with ideas from philosophy, literature, and poetry in her work. From this layered approach, she creates performances in which different realities coexist and question one another. She collaborates with artists from various disciplines, bringing together diverse voices, forms, and media on stage.
She uses this versatility to make complex themes tangible and experiential. In her work, she examines how invisible violence manifests in everyday life, and the traces it leaves in personal relationships and broader social structures. By exposing these dynamics, she opens up space for reflection, dialogue, and the rethinking of existing systems.
As a maker, Veronika presented she was born for happiness at Frascati’s 2025 Beginnings: a multidisciplinary work in which she explores negative space as a foundation through text, sound and moving image. The piece reveals both the unbearable horror and the tenderness and beauty that reside within it.
