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  Eva Berendes

 

 

born 1974 Bonn (DE), lives and works in Berlin (DE)

 

Education

2001-2002
Chelsea College of Art and Design, London, MA Fine Art (UK)

1999-2001
Hochschule der Künste, Berlin (DE)

2000
Central St. Martin's College of Art and Design, London (UK)

1995-1998
Akademie der Bildenden Künste, München (DE)

 

Solo Exhibitions


2012
Casado Santapau, Madrid (ES)

2011
Elisa Platteau Galerie, Brussels (BE)
New Reliefs, Ancient & Modern, London (UK)
People and Events will be the Decoration, S1 Artspace, Sheffield (UK)

2010
A veil, a shadow, a bloom, Sommer & Kohl, Berlin (DE)

Eva Berendes & Michael Van den Abeele, Elisa Platteau Galerie, Brussels (BE)

2009
Silk, Grids & Souvenirs, Galerie Jacky Strenz, Frankfurt/Main (DE)
The Armory Show, New York (US)

2008   
Eva Berendes / Günter Fruhtrunk, Arndt & Partner, Zürich (CH)
New Schubert Pink, Sommer & Kohl, Berlin (DE)

2007
Ancient & Modern, London (UK)
Chess, with Florian Baudrexel, The Reliance, London (UK)

2006
Jasmine and Trellis, Galerie Jacky Strenz, Frankfurt /Main (DE)
Chess, with Florian Baudrexel, Adeline Morlon Art Direction, Düsseldorf (DE)

2005
Reliefs, Center, Berlin (DE)
Goethe Institute, Dublin (IE)

 

Group Exhibitions

2012
A Stepping Stone, curated by SALTS, Autocenter, Berlin (DE)

2011
Beyond the Fragile Geometry of Sculpture, De Vleeshal, Middelburg (NL)
beyond gestaltung, Bielefelder Kunstverein, Bielefeld (DE)
Art Scope: Eva Berendes, Meiro Koizumi, Hiroe Saeki, Jan Scharrelmann, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo (JP)
Invited, Galerie Klaus Benden, Köln (DE)
Jacky Strenz Galerie, Frankfurt (DE)
Bold Tendencies, Peckham Multi-Storey Car Park, London (UK)
Modernism has two faces..., Mount Stuart, sle of Bute, Scotland (UK)
Madame Realism, curated by Lisette Smith, MARRES, Centre for Contemporary Art, Maastricht (NL)
Der Menschen Klee, curated by Cornelius Quabeck, KIT, Düsseldorf (DE)
Making is Thinking, curated by Zoe Gray, Witte de With, Rotterdam (NL)

2010
Construction and its Shadow, curated by Andrew Bick, Leeds Arts Gallery (UK)
The Long Dark, curated by Michelle Cotton, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge (UK)
Elisa Platteau Galerie, Brussels (BE)

Between the Lines (works by Eva Berendes and Zoe Paul), Cass Sculpture Foundation, Goodwood, West Sussex, (UK)
The Berlin Box, curated by Friederike Nymphius, Kunsthalle Andratx/CCA, Andratx, Mallorca (ES)
Inter # 4, Galerie Zink, München (DE)
Bilder über Bilder, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig (Mumok), Wien (AT)
Construction and its Shadow, curated by Andrew Bicks, Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds (UK)
Drawing Sculpture, Daimler Contemporary, Berlin (DE)

2009
Objects, Furniture, and Patterns, Art Sinc
e the Summer of ’69, New York, NY (US)
Paper Moon, Sommer & Kohl, Berlin (DE)
The Long Dark, curated by Michelle Cotton, International 3, Manchester (UK)
The Long Dark, curated by Michelle Cotton, Hatton Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne (UK)
Drawing Sculpture, Daimler Contemporary, Berlin (DE)
From Yarn to Yucca – A Continuation of the Dialogue Between Abstraction and Figuration, John Connelly Presents, New York (US)
Les Formes Féminines, curated by Dorothée Dupuis, Triangle France Friche Belle de Mai, Marseille (FR)
All that is solid melts into air, Part II: The Thing, curated by Dieter Roelstraete, MuHKA Antwerp in collaboration with Cultuurcentrum Mechelen, Mechelen (BE)

2008   
r e p ’ e . t ’ t i o n, Sorcha Dallas, Glasgow (UK)
The Eternal Flame, curated by Sabi
ne Schaschl and Burkhard Melzer, Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel (CH)
minimal funktional, Highlights aus der Daimler Kunst Sammlung zum Verhältnis von Kunst und Design, Museum im Kulturspeicher Würzburg (DE)
Foreground 08: Intervention/Decoration, curated by Simon Morrissey and Tabitha Clayson, Frome, Somerset, (UK)
Hase, Krebs und Nachtigall, Galerie Mezzanin, Wien (AT)
Module Play & Box Promenade, Cell Project Space, London (UK)
Pendre la crémaillère, Sommer & Kohl, Berlin (DE)

2007
Eccentric Growth, Galerie Sandra Bürgel, Berlin (DE)
Strange Weight, curated by Rob Tufnell, Jose Martos Gallery, New York (US)
Minimalism and Applied I, Sammlung DaimlerChrysler, Berlin (DE), catalogue
Die gute Stube, curated by Wolfgang Stehle, Kuttner Siebert, Berlin (DE)
Back and Forth 1: Otto Boll, Eva Berendes, Matthew Burbidge, Ali Kaaf, Villa Grisebach Gallery, Berlin (DE)
"Unsere Affekte fliegen aus dem Bereich der menschlichen Wirklichkeit heraus", Galerie Sandra Bürgel, Berlin (DE)
Eva Berendes, Luke Dowd, Kevin Hutcheson, Anna Kerstin Otto, Galerie Jacky Strenz, Frankfurt/Main (DE)

2006   
Friedrich, curated by Bruce Haines, Doggerfisher, Edinburgh (UK)
Team, Arndt & Partner, Berlin (DE)
Farewell, Kunstverein Kohlenhof, Nürnberg (DE)
Stipendiaten, Konrad–Adenauer-Stiftung, Berlin (DE)
The Appalachian School, Three Rivers Arts Festival Gallery, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (US)

2005          
Scotty oder Madeleine?, Center, Berlin (DE)
Liquid Crystal, Lothringer Dreizehn, Space for Contemporary Art, München (DE)
Villa in Phoenix. Innen. Dämmerung., Center, Berlin (DE)
Communism, The Project Arts Center, Dublin (IE)

2004          
Free Energy, curated by Patricia Kohl, Loop Guestroom, Berlin (DE)
Eva Berendes, Bernd Ribbeck, Claudia Wieser, Bravo, Düsseldorf (DE)
The Delighted Eye, Subspace, Berlin (DE)
Im Mai, Studio Matthias Dornfeld, Berlin (DE)

2003          
Put Out More Flags (curated by Christabel Stewart), Sutton Lane, London (UK)
Reality Slides, Kunstverein Kohlenhof, Nürnberg (DE)
Goshka Macuga´s Picture Room, Gasworks, London (UK)
Flatshare, Unit 2 Gallery, London (UK)
The Fragile Underground (curated by David Thorpe), Bart Wells Institute, London (UK)

 

Grants / Residencies

2009          
Art Scope, Daimler Foundation Japan, Tokyo

2008/09
Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant

2006/07
Else-Heiliger-Fonds

2001/02
DAAD-scholarship for postgraduates

 

Bibliography

2011
Exhibition publication: Beyond Gestaltung, Bielefelder Kunstverein, Bielefeld (DE)
Exhibition publication: Eva Berendes, People and Events will be the Decoration, S1 Artspace, Sheffield (UK)

2010
You Have Been Here Sometime; interview with Eva Berendes (youhavebeenheresometime.blogspot.com), 4 August
Exhibition booklet: The Long Dark, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, 2010
Exhibition booklet: Between the lines, works by Eva Berendes and Zoe Paul, Cass Sculpture Foundation, Goodwood, West Sussex (UK)
Jacky Strenz Galerie, Elle 06/2010, City Frankfurt, Kunst & Kultur, p. 41
Tom Hackett; The Long Dark, Interface, a-n, September
Riccardo Previdi; Ornamento e Delitto, conversazione con Eva Berendes, Flash Art, March 2010, pp.68–70

2009          
Christoph Schütte; Vasen und Krüge in Kunstlandschaft, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 31.12.2009, p.39
Martin Vincent; The Long Dark, Art Monthly No 332, Dec-Jan 2009/2010
Ruth Händler; Eva Berendes, Capital 12/2009, 19 November – 16 December
Anna Catharina Gebbers; The NADA Emerging Artist Page, L-Magazine, New York, 22 July– 4 August
catalogue: All that is solid melts into air, Five Reflections on matreialist Spirituality in Contemporary Art, MuHKA Antwerp, Cultuurcentrum Mechelen
Christiane Rekade; What Do We Do With It?, Mousse Issue 17, p.114–116

2008          
Jack Mottram; When exhibitions hang together, The Herald, 12 December
Dietrich Roeschmann; The Eternal Flame: Eine Reise ins ungewisse Glück, regioartline
Ewige Flamme, WOZ Die Wochenzeitung, Zürich, 7 August, p.18
Oliver Tepel; Eva Berendes. Halb / Zeit, Checkpoint No. 6, September–December, pp.76–83
Oliver Tepel; Im schönen Nichts ist alles egal – Invasion der Dreiecke, Spex Nr. 316, September–October, p.129-131
catalogue: David Bussel; Looking at Display: A Survey of London Exhibitions and Presentations, published by Rachmaninoff's, September
Colin Glen; Intervention/Decoration, Art Monthly No 317, June
catalogue: Simon Morrissey; Foreground 08, Intervention/Decoration

2007          
Melissa Gronlund; Frieze, Issue 111 November–December, Eva Berendes, Ancient & Modern, London
catalogue: Minimalism and Applied I, Sammlung Daimler Chrysler Contemporary
Charlotte Bonham-Carter; Florian Baudrexel, Eva Berendes, Chess, Contemporary Magazine #92, June
catalogue: Minimalism and After, Tradition and Tendencies of Minimalism from 1950 to the Present, Daimler Chrysler Collection, Hatje Cantz Verlag
Peter Abs & Oliver Tepel; Listing Best of 2006, Spex #306, No 01-02
Catriona Black; Material benefits, Sunday Herald, 7 January

2006          
Jack Mottram; Peeking behind the curtain, The Herald, 22 December
Robert Clark; Friedrich Edinburgh, The Guardian Guide, 23–29 December

2005
Tim Scott; Communism at Project, CIRCA 112
Robert O'Halloran; Communism at Project, CIRCA 111, Spring, pp.110–111
JJ Charlesworth; Communism, Art Monthly No 284, March

2001          
Alice Winn; Hot! Stuff, Pittsburgh City Paper, 18-25 April

1998
catalogue: Trans-Isar, Kunstbunker Tumulka, München