Eva & Adele

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Eva & Adele (left) on March 10, 2013 at the vernissage of their exhibition Futuring at MARTa Herford

Eva & Adele (spelling: EVA & ADELE) is an artist couple from Germany who live in Berlin . They are best known for their performance appearances, but have also been represented in exhibitions with material works since 1997. In addition to appearing in public, they work with the media of photography , video and painting .

biography

Eva & Adele have appeared at art exhibitions and vernissages since 1989 , but also in public spaces. They appear in eccentric, often pink, ladies' costumes, high heels, handbags, with shaven heads and brightly made-up faces. The stylized exterior illustrates its claim as a living work of art. The artists see themselves as “work of art”, life as art and art as life. Although their appearance has a feminine connotation, they advocate a gender identity that is not defined by society, but is freely selectable. One of their slogans for this: Over the Boundaries of Gender .

Eva & Adele, Milan (2007)

You appear in the exhibitions like any other visitor and are communicative with the other visitors. They have the resulting photographs sent to them by the recipients and transform them into pictures in the studio, that is, they are brought back into the art context. This is the work complex Cum . Eva & Adele deal in a similar way with photographs that they find of themselves in the media. This complex of works is called Mediaplastic . In their videos, they address the behavior of “normal” people who are confronted with them.

In contrast to Gilbert & George , who also see themselves as a living work of art, Eva & Adele hide their real identity. Their artificial appearance does not allow any conclusions to be drawn about the two people. The slogan serves as a reference: Coming out of the future . As a biography they only give their body measurements, just like a work of art is measured:

Eva & Adele were portrayed on film by various artists (e.g. Rosa von Praunheim ).

Eve Adele
height 176 161
Bust 101 86
waist 81 68
hip 96 96
All information in cm

Since Eva & Adele see themselves as a living work of art, a museum takes place wherever they appear: Wherever we are is museum (wherever we are, there is a museum).

Futuring

Futuring (FUTURING) is a word invention by the artist couple Eva & Adele. As a work of art, Eva & Adele published this word invention for the first time in the form of a stamp in 1991 on the occasion of their performance Wedding Metropolis in the Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin. Since then, the made-up word futuring has played a key role in the work of the artist. The word was then published in almost all artistic media, at exhibitions and in their accompanying programs.

Solo exhibitions

  • 2019. EN PLEIN AIR, Nicole Gnesa Galerie, Munich
  • 2018. L'AMOUR DU RISQUE, me Collectors Room. Olbricht Foundation, Berlin
  • 2016. YOU ARE MY BIGGEST INSPIRATION, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
  • PORTA NUOVA, Nicole Gnesa Gallery, Munich
  • 2015. FUTURING by EVA & ADELE, Swatch Pavilion, Arsenale Nord, Biennale Venezia
  • 2014. ADSILA, Nicole Gnesa Gallery, Munich
  • 2013. OBSIDIAN, MARTa Herford
  • FUTURING ON BÖTZOW, Kulturbrauerei Bötzow, Berlin
  • THE PERILOUS NIGHT, Nicole Gnesa Galerie, Munich
  • 2012. FUTURING, Völklingen Ironworks World Heritage Site, European Center for Art and Industrial Culture, Völklingen
  • THE ARTIST = A WORK OF ART, MOCAK, Kraków
  • 2011. ECHO, Galerie Martin Mertens, Munich
  • 2010. FUTURING DORTMUND, Utermann Gallery, Dortmund
  • 2009. STEREOEFFEKT, Tallinn Art Hall, Tallinn
  • 2008. ROSA, Museum der Moderne Rupertinum , Salzburg
  • RED, Lentos Art Museum , Linz
  • ONE WAY TICKET, Kimura / Panetta, Project Room, Berlin
  • 2007. ANGELS, DEVILS & SEXMONSTER, Claire Oliver, New York
  • DAUERGEIL, White Trash Contemporary, Hamburg
  • 2006. NEON, Kaj Forsblom Gallery, Helsinki
  • GOLDEN MANIFESTO, Galerie Brigitte March, Stuttgart
  • LASSO, Jérôme de Noirmont Gallery, Paris
  • 2005. DEATH OF PERFORMANCE, Claire Oliver, New York
  • HOUSE OF FUTURING, Sprengel Museum , Hanover
  • 2004. ACT, Brigitte March Gallery, Stuttgart
  • GET ON MY WINGS, Les Abattoirs, Toulouse
  • FRU FRU, Asbæk Gallery, København
  • CLOSED SOCIETY, Galerie Michael Schultz, Berlin
  • THE GOYA INSTALLATION, Villa Aurora , Los Angeles
  • 2003. SHY, Jérôme de Noirmont Gallery, Paris
  • PAINTING QUEER, CCA - Centro Cultural Andratx , Andratx
  • WATERMUSIC. Video Sculpture - steirischer herbst, Graz
  • DAY BY DAY PAINTING, Nordiska Akvarellmuseet, Skärhamn
  • 2000. LOGO, Modern Gallery Saarland Museum , Saarbrücken
  • CLOSE-UP & BLOW-UP, Galerie Jérôme de Noirmont, Paris
  • LOGO, Overbeck Society , Lübeck
  • 1999. WHEREVER WE ARE IS MUSEUM, NBK. New Berlin Art Association , Berlin
  • 1997. CUM, Sprengel Museum , Hanover

Group exhibitions

  • 2019. European art association in the art space Potsdam : POSTCARD RELOADED

literature

  • Eva & Adele: YOU ARE MY BIGGEST INSPIRATION, ed. v. Musée d'Art modern de la Ville de Paris and EVA & ADELE, Munich 2016 (with essays by Fabrice Hergott , Marcus Steinweg and Julia Garimorth), ISBN 978-3-7774-2614-3 .
  • Eva & Adele: IN AND OUTSIDE THE TIME MACHINE, Kultura Extra, Berlin 2015 (with an interview by Andre Sokolowski).
  • Eva & Adele: ADSILA. Nicole Gnesa, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-7774-2322-7 .
  • Eva & Adele: Cum . Sprengel Museum Hannover, Ostfildern-Ruit 1997 (with essays by Ulrich Krempel and Paolo Bianchi), ISBN 3-89169-118-1 .
  • Eva & Adele: Wherever we are is museum . Neuer Berliner Kunstverein , Ostfildern-Ruit 1999 (with essays by Renate Puvogel , Robert Fleck, Thomas Wulffen and Paolo Bianchi), ISBN 3-89322-979-5 .
  • Eva & Adele: Nota - light on Weimar . Light on Weimar - The ephemeral media, Ostfildern-Ruit 1999 (with articles by Dietmar Kamper and Bernd Rosner), ISBN 3-89322-244-8 .
  • Eva & Adele: Close-up & Blow-up . Galerie Jérôme de Noirmont, Paris 2000 (with a text contribution by Robert Fleck ).
  • Eva & Adele: Logo - Mediaplastic-Wings-Lingerie . Saarland Museum, Overbeck Society, Neuer Sächsischer Kunstverein, Ostfildern-Ruit 2000 (with essays by Thea Herold, Gesine Last and Dietmar Kamper), ISBN 3-7757-9039-X .
  • Eva & Adele: Day by Day - Painting . The Nordic Watercolor Museum, Ostfildern-Ruit 2003 (with articles by Bera Nordal, Andreas Schalhorn and Sabine Kampmann), ISBN 3-7757-9184-1 .
  • Eva & Adele: Closed society . Galerie Michael Schultz, Berlin 2004 (with a text contribution by Mark Gisbourne).
  • Eva & Adele, PINK RED . Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Lentos Art Museum Linz [Ed., DuMont Buchverlag, Cologne 2008, ISBN 978-3-8321-9096-5 ] (with articles by Margit Zuckriegl , Sabine Kampmann and Nina Kirsch).
  • Eva & Adele: STEREOEFFECT . Tallinn Art Hall, Tallinn 2009 (with essays by Harry Liivrand and Eugenio Viola).
  • Eva & Adele: Critical Lexicon of Contemporary Art . Munich 2010 (with a text by Hans-Joachim Müller).
  • Eva & Adele: The Artist = a Work of Art , Mocak Krakau, Krakau 2012 (with essays by Masza Potoska, Ulrich Krempel, Angeli Janhsen , Delfina Piekarska and others).
  • Eva & Adele: FUTURING . World Heritage Site Völklinger Hütte, Heidelberg 2012 (with articles by Meinrad Maria Grewenig, Frank Krämer and Angeli Janhsen).
  • Eva & Adele: OBSIDIAN . Marta Herford 2013 (with texts by Roland Nachtigäller , Reinhard Ermen and Jan-Philipp Fruehsorge).
  • Eva & Adele: FUTURING . Bötzow, Berlin 2013 (with texts by Ulrich Krempel and others).

Web links

Commons : Eva & Adele  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://artitious.com/postcard-reloaded-in-kunstraum-potsdam-18-10-17-11-2019/ accessed on October 19, 2019