diff --git a/easybuild/easyconfigs/n/napari/napari-0.4.19.post1-foss-2023a.eb b/easybuild/easyconfigs/n/napari/napari-0.4.19.post1-foss-2023a.eb
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..dd8ff3a30597
--- /dev/null
+++ b/easybuild/easyconfigs/n/napari/napari-0.4.19.post1-foss-2023a.eb
@@ -0,0 +1,121 @@
+# Thomas Hoffmann, EMBL Heidelberg, structures-it@emblde, 2024/01
+easyblock = 'PythonBundle'
+
+name = 'napari'
+version = '0.4.19.post1'
+
+homepage = 'https://napari.org/'
+description = """napari is a fast, interactive, multi-dimensional image viewer for Python. It's  
+designed for browsing, annotating, and analyzing large multi-dimensional images.
+It's built on top of Qt (for the GUI), vispy (for performant GPU-based          
+rendering), and the scientific Python stack (numpy, scipy)."""
+
+toolchain = {'name': 'foss', 'version': '2023a'}
+
+builddependencies = [
+    ('poetry', '1.5.1'),
+]
+
+dependencies = [
+    ('Python', '3.11.3'),
+    ('PyQt5', '5.15.10'),
+    ('SciPy-bundle', '2023.07'),
+    ('PyYAML', '6.0'),
+    ('pydantic', '2.5.3'),
+    ('dask', '2023.9.2'),
+    ('PyOpenGL', '3.1.7'),
+    ('imageio', '2.33.1'),
+    ('tqdm', '4.66.1'),
+    ('IPython', '8.14.0'),
+    ('VisPy', '0.14.1'),
+    ('scikit-image', '0.22.0'),
+    ('matplotlib', '3.7.2'),
+    ('Qtconsole', '5.5.1'),
+    ('Pint', '0.23'),
+    ('wrapt', '1.15.0'),
+]
+
+use_pip = True
+sanity_pip_check = True
+
+exts_list = [
+    ('in_n_out', '0.1.9', {
+        'checksums': ['89feb944e420faf42d3c2542145681b4d57144355932c2b859695fcdc4f9a2da'],
+    }),
+    ('pydantic_compat', '0.1.2', {
+        'checksums': ['c5c5bca39ca2d22cad00c02898e400e1920e5127649a8e860637f15566739373'],
+    }),
+    ('app_model', '0.2.4', {
+        'checksums': ['127cda637003a34b26371c9c68ae5b24d7012682f071a10657a94900c8cd439d'],
+    }),
+    ('cachey', '0.2.1', {
+        'checksums': ['0310ba8afe52729fa7626325c8d8356a8421c434bf887ac851e58dcf7cf056a6'],
+    }),
+    ('docstring_parser', '0.15', {
+        'checksums': ['48ddc093e8b1865899956fcc03b03e66bb7240c310fac5af81814580c55bf682'],
+    }),
+    ('magicgui', '0.8.1', {
+        'checksums': ['43553d8f11002a79dd5fee57caff3ba9d3e37d7d50e8ed40efe79b360adc806a'],
+    }),
+    ('numpydoc', '1.6.0', {
+        'checksums': ['ae7a5380f0a06373c3afe16ccd15bd79bc6b07f2704cbc6f1e7ecc94b4f5fc0d'],
+    }),
+    ('psygnal', '0.9.5', {
+        'checksums': ['4956ea6c36a75f7fc457558935b67dd8be2594661b4d08eeb3357d69c509c55f'],
+    }),
+    ('superqt', '0.6.1', {
+        'checksums': ['f1a9e0499c4bbcef34b6f895eb57cd41301b3799242cd030029238124184dade'],
+    }),
+    ('napari-console', '0.0.9', {
+        'modulename': 'napari_console',
+        'checksums': ['3bc86dd96cf94b1af96bba1043f90a39b1369bb978a8df9038a1ac422e66b532'],
+    }),
+    ('napari-plugin-engine', '0.2.0', {
+        'checksums': ['fa926f869d70e0d652c005661948cd0c7fee5508ae17d437937f34f5287590b3'],
+    }),
+    ('napari-svg', '0.1.10', {
+        'checksums': ['18e642c888a71e09c9d1097f25bced1e7ef5dde1771469647bcd77975800f77d'],
+    }),
+    ('typer', '0.9.0', {
+        'checksums': ['50922fd79aea2f4751a8e0408ff10d2662bd0c8bbfa84755a699f3bada2978b2'],
+    }),
+    ('pyproject_hooks', '1.0.0', {
+        'checksums': ['f271b298b97f5955d53fb12b72c1fb1948c22c1a6b70b315c54cedaca0264ef5'],
+    }),
+    ('build', '1.1.1', {
+        'checksums': ['8eea65bb45b1aac2e734ba2cc8dad3a6d97d97901a395bd0ed3e7b46953d2a31'],
+    }),
+    ('mdurl', '0.1.2', {
+        'checksums': ['bb413d29f5eea38f31dd4754dd7377d4465116fb207585f97bf925588687c1ba'],
+    }),
+    ('markdown-it-py', '3.0.0', {
+        'modulename': 'markdown_it',
+        'checksums': ['e3f60a94fa066dc52ec76661e37c851cb232d92f9886b15cb560aaada2df8feb'],
+    }),
+    ('rich', '13.7.1', {
+        'checksums': ['9be308cb1fe2f1f57d67ce99e95af38a1e2bc71ad9813b0e247cf7ffbcc3a432'],
+    }),
+    ('npe2', '0.7.4', {
+        'checksums': ['969d5394b24225cff1ab6625f29ea1603a6509714bd9496c49e697c3e49077b0'],
+    }),
+    ('mypy_extensions', '1.0.0', {
+        'checksums': ['75dbf8955dc00442a438fc4d0666508a9a97b6bd41aa2f0ffe9d2f2725af0782'],
+    }),
+    (name, version, {
+        'checksums': ['88e298697c38c9f842d7c26c8d51d2e0fbb90d0be05575fdd159d27eede11301'],
+    }),
+]
+
+fix_python_shebang_for = ['bin/napari']
+
+sanity_check_paths = {
+    'files': ['bin/%(name)s'],
+    'dirs': ['lib/python%(pyshortver)s/site-packages/%(name)s'],
+}
+
+sanity_check_commands = [
+    '%(name)s --help',
+    'pyrcc5 -version 2>&1 |grep pyrcc5'  # make sure PyQt5 module was not built with --no-tools
+]
+
+moduleclass = 'vis'
diff --git a/easybuild/easyconfigs/v/VisPy/VisPy-0.14.1-foss-2023a.eb b/easybuild/easyconfigs/v/VisPy/VisPy-0.14.1-foss-2023a.eb
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..cc273eb08958
--- /dev/null
+++ b/easybuild/easyconfigs/v/VisPy/VisPy-0.14.1-foss-2023a.eb
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+easyblock = 'PythonBundle'
+
+name = 'VisPy'
+version = '0.14.1'
+
+homepage = 'https://vispy.org'
+description = """VisPy is a high-performance interactive 2D/3D data visualization library
+ leveraging the computational power of modern Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) through the
+ OpenGL library to display very large datasets."""
+
+toolchain = {'name': 'foss', 'version': '2023a'}
+
+dependencies = [
+    ('Python', '3.11.3'),
+    ('SciPy-bundle', '2023.07'),
+    ('PyQt5', '5.15.10'),
+    ('matplotlib', '3.7.2'),  # for kiwisolver
+    ('freetype', '2.13.0')
+]
+
+use_pip = True
+
+exts_list = [
+    ('freetype_py', '2.4.0', {
+        'modulename': 'freetype',
+        'sources': ['freetype-py-2.4.0.zip'],
+        'checksums': ['8ad81195d2f8f339aba61700cebfbd77defad149c51f59b75a2a5e37833ae12e'],
+    }),
+    ('hsluv', '5.0.3', {
+        'checksums': ['2586bcb61d29d76e89e563a6836df24d86939961c9657f129a59f7617de45377'],
+    }),
+    ('vispy', version, {
+        'checksums': ['249a50979fc00a8b65109283354dcf12cf415c1a5dcf9821e113f6e590b9b93c'],
+        'use_pip': True
+    }),
+]
+
+sanity_pip_check = True
+
+moduleclass = 'vis'
diff --git a/test/easyconfigs/easyconfigs.py b/test/easyconfigs/easyconfigs.py
index fb128fdbf200..dd7136251e9b 100644
--- a/test/easyconfigs/easyconfigs.py
+++ b/test/easyconfigs/easyconfigs.py
@@ -647,6 +647,8 @@ def check_dep_vars(self, gen, dep, dep_vars):
             # for the sake of backwards compatibility, keep UCX-CUDA v1.11.0 which depends on UCX v1.11.0
             # (for 2021b, UCX was updated to v1.11.2)
             'UCX': [('1.11.0;', ['UCX-CUDA-1.11.0-'])],
+            # Napari 0.4.19post1 requires VisPy >=0.14.1 <0.15
+            'VisPy': [('0.14.1;', ['napari-0.4.19.post1-'])],
             # WPS 3.9.1 requires WRF 3.9.1.1
             'WRF': [(r'3\.9\.1\.1', [r'WPS-3\.9\.1'])],
             # wxPython 4.2.0 depends on wxWidgets 3.2.0