Eva-Maria Horstick

Eva-Maria Horstick (born in Gescher ; Horstick-Schmitt married from 1994 to 2016 ) is a German artist . She lives and works in Dortmund . Her work includes photography , installation and performance .

life and work

Eva-Maria Horstick has been taking photos since she was ten, the camera accompanies her life because she wanted to capture life and moments in a certain way as a child. The path became a calling. From 2000 to 2003 she studied photo design at the Dortmund University of Applied Sciences and finished her studies with a diploma thesis in Kosovo on the subject of police and the work of the UN . Three of these works were presented in an extensive touring exhibition by Terre des Femmes between 2005 and 2016.

Eva-Maria Horstick worked as a choreographer and photographer even before her studies and as a model for fashion shows in the early 1980s. The idea of ​​mixing theater shows with pop music, rock music as well as opera and dance arose from this time. Her shows were presented from 1986 to 1997 in North Rhine-Westphalia with her then show and model company. In 1984 her son was born, whom she raised as a single parent until he was 10 years old. This time left its mark on her work in a Room .

In 1997 her brother Uli died in a traffic accident and she decided to turn her back on the show and model industry. a. her non-profit work on the subject of peace and tolerance as well as identity and the consequences of war. Her first exhibition in the Galerie Am Arkona Platz in Berlin dealt with the Iraq war, the responsibility of the UN and the issue of the Iraq war being sold like an advertising campaign. “Gendermainstreaming 2490” was about the role of women in wars and forgetting of victims. Other exhibitions on domestic violence, human trafficking and forced prostitution followed. From 2005 to 2008 there were also accompanying projects such as “Familien im Revier”, “Photo meets Manga” and the series “Babaism”, which deals with the beauty craze of the present day.

In 2006 she created an extensive installation with eleven mannequins with the Kunstverein Dortmund, in which she illuminated the power of FIFA . In 2005 and 2006 she created a performance each at the Art Fair Cologne. “Blind Spot” and “Car Voyeurism”. Blind spot: the artist blindfolded and intuitively photographed the audience at the fair. At the same time, the audience saw each other on a screen that was located behind the artist. In 2006 she was invited to the Women's Museum in Bonn to hold an exhibition on human trafficking with other artists. On three walls, Eva-Maria Horstick showed her intensive examination of the topic, which was also positively discussed by the press, without texts or explanations. Further exhibitions on violence against women followed. From 2008-2010 she had an apartment in New York City and during that time an exhibition followed in the German House of Manhattan ("Photo meets Manga") and one in the Jewish Center in Manhattan ("2490" against human trafficking in collaboration with Brooke Bryant from NYC ). Brooke Bryant met Eva in Istanbul. The exhibition in NYC arose from this chance encounter.

Further own projects followed, including a. Daughters of the Revier, series in Israel, peace projects, projects in the Ruhr area with people from the Revier. Eva-Maria Horstick created the series “in a Room” between 2004 and 2016, which deals with identity and her life. Since 2008 she has also been photographing cities at night as a series because she perceives the night as meditative calm. Empty and poetic, images torn from the fast world. Between 1990 and 1997 she was a frequent guest at the Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck . She was friends with Johannes Wasmuth, the head of the Bahnhofs-Rolandseck at the time, who often hosted many artists, such as B. Marianne Hoppe, who got to know Eva as well as Rosalka, whom she portrayed several times. Wasmuth practically introduced her to the world of art before he died in 1997 in the same week as her brother Uli. After her divorce in 2016, she resumed her maiden name. During their marriage from 1994 to 2016 she was named Eva Horstick-Schmitt.

Works in the museum

• 20 works in the collection of the Museum for Art and Cultural History Dortmund
• 3 works in the collection of the Federal Republic of Germany

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

• 2003 Gallery at Arkona Platz “2490” Gender mainstreaming
• 2005 Gallery Zimmermann and Heitmann "Photo meets Manga"
• 2006 Dortmunder Kunstverein Installation with 11 puppets
• 2008 Gallery Camera Obscura Dortmund Eva "Meditative"
• 2008 City Gallery Torhaus Rombergpark Dortmund "RetroSehen"
• 2009 Gallery Camera Obscura Dortmund "Eva beyond Eden"
• 2009 German House NYC "Photo meets Manga"
• 2009 Nicole Malmede Gallery "Photo meets Manga"
• 2010 Museum for Art and Cultural History Dortmund Cancer Positiv
• 2010 Levantehaus Hamburg "Photo meets Manga"
• 2011 Museum for Art and Cultural History “Unretouched” families in the area
• 2012 Aaartfoundation Austria "What a wonderful world"
• 2013 Galerie Art Engert Eschweiler "Zero o'clock nocturnal active"
• 2014 City Gallery in Altena "Daughters 2010-2014" "Unretouched" Families in DE
• 2014 Galerie So-66 Münster "Zero o'clock nocturnal active"
• 2015 Museum Gescher "What a wonderful world"
• 2015 Studio Gallery Düsseldorf "Babaism"
• 2015 Art Beat Gallery Brussels Eva Horstick-Schmitt
• 2015 NRW State Representation "Unretouched - Families in the Revier"
• 2016 Art Beat Gallery Brussels "Manga Photos Manga"
• 2016 Gallery Hovestadt Nottuln "Eva 2490"
• 2018 German Society for Natural History and Ethnology of East Asia (OAG) in Tokyo, Japan "Photography meets Manga"

Group exhibitions

• 2005 Kunsthalle Tübingen with Terre des Femmes "without glitz and glamor"

This was followed by 85 other exhibitions with Terre des Femmes 2005–2016

• 2005 Zeche Zollverein Essen Art Squares 05
• 2006 Women's Museum Bonn Sex trafficking, myths and violence
• 2006 Zollverein Essen Art Squares 06
• 2006 Gallery Art Isotope "Art Torwand"
• 2008 Moorvilla Freiman Munich "Feme Fire Fanaticism"
• 2008 Lahnstein "changing lanes"
• 2009 Contemporary art at Villa Romenthal Diessen am Ammersee
• 2010 Hoesch Museum "Missing Steel"
• 2012 Ludwig Galerie Schloss Oberhausen "At Home the view through the keyhole"
• 2013 Altes Museum am Ostwall "Art against female Genital Mutiation"
• 2013 Berlinische Galerie Berlin with Terre des Femmes - a charity art auction
• 2014 Women's Museum Bonn "The Blue Rider and Her Circle of Friends"
• 2014 Women's Museum Bonn "Single Moms"
• 2015 Women's Museum Bonn "Women on War and Peace"
• 2015 City Art Gallery Torhaus Rombergpark Dortmund "Insights"
• 2016 Berlinische Galerie Berlin with Terre des Femmes - a charity art auction
• 2019 Berlinische Galerie Berlin with Terre des Femmes - a charity art auction
• 2020 GAF Gallery Hannover - Theater of Life
• 2020 Science Park Gelsenkirchen - Parallel Worlds
• 2020 Kunstklinik Hamburg "Violence - State - Aesthetics" (online presentation due to Corona, new date 2021.)

Web links

• http://www.arteve.de/