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Eva Berendes

 
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Untitled, 2005
plaster, brass,
diameter 70 cm
   
EVA BERENDES
JASMINE AND TRELLIS
26. MAI – 15. JULI 2006

The title “Jasmine and Trellis” metaphorically describes a key motif in Eva Berendes’ work: the entanglement of organic and geometric abstraction. It is borrowed from one of the first drafts for a tapestry design by William Morris, founder of the arts and crafts movement of the 19th century, which was driven by the idea of a symbiosis between brain- work and manual work. A thought that is played-back in a quote by Constantin Brancusi, saying one should „make art as one makes a hat“, expressing a central aspect within the spectrum of content of Eva Berendes’ works: the interrogation of the relationship between the material, the form that emerges from it and the spiritual inhabiting the form.

For “Jasmine and Trellis” she transforms the gallery space into a kind of cabinet. Across the whole length of the front windows two curtains, spray-painted with large graphic compositions, border the space off the street and likewise provide an atmospheric backdrop for the exhibited works. The sculptures, pictures and reliefs are, though dissimilar, very closely related to each other, materials and shapes interact in various ways and the whole arrangement aims at a sensual, almost auratic presence.

The works move on the boundary between two and three- dimensional objects, they occupy real space but they always remain to be images. In that sense also the curtain pieces, due to the physical depth of their pleads, can be conceived as reliefs. The choice of materials such as wood, wool, plaster, brass and leather or their application refer to the domain of applied arts, alluding to ideas of entirety since the arts and crafts movement as of the counter culture of the 1960ies and 70ies. Her formal language reminds of works of the Russian avant- garde, especially supremacist painting, textiles as well as exhibition design.

Eva Berendes studied at Akademie für Bildenden Künste, Munich, Hochschule der Künste, Berlin and Chelsea College of Art and Design, London. She lives and works in Berlin. Solo and group exhibitions took place, among others, at The Project Arts Centre, Dublin, Goethe Institute, Dublin, Bart Wells Institute, London, Sutton Lane, London, Center, Berlin, Adeline Morlon Art Direction, Düsseldorf and Lothringer 13, Munich.
   

Eva Berendes

1974 born in Bonn, Germany

Lives and works in Berlin, Germany

Education

2001-02 Chelsea College of Art and Design, London
1998-2001 Hochschule der Künste, Berlin
1995 - 98 Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Munich

Grants

2006
Else Heiliger Fonds, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung

2001/02
DAAD- scholarship for postgraduates

Solo Exhibitions

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

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

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

2005
Reliefs, Center, Berlin (D)
Goethe Institute, Dublin (IR)

Group Exhibitions

2008
The Long Dark, curated by Michelle Cotton, International 3, Manchester (UK)
The Eternal Flame, curated by Sabine Schaschl and Burkhard Melzer, Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel (CH)
Minimalism and Applied I, Daimler Contemporary Collection, Museum für Konkrete Kunst, Würzburg (D)
Foreground 08: Intervention/Decoration, curated by Simon Morrissey and Tabitha Clayson, Frome, Somerset, (UK)
Hase, Krebs und Nachtigall, Galerie Mezzanin, Wien (A)
Module play & Box Promenade, Cell Project Space, London (UK)
Pendre la crémaillère, Sommer & Kohl, Berlin (D)

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

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

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

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

2003
Put Out More Flags(curated by Christabel Stewart), Sutton Lane, London (UK)
Reality Slides, Kunstverein Kohlenhof, Nürnberg (D)
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)

Bibliography

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

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

2005
Scott, Tim; Communism at Project, CIRCA 112
O'Halloran, Robbie; Communism at Project, CIRCA 111, Spring, pp110–111
Charlesworth, JJ; Communism, Art Monthly No 284, March

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

1998
catalogue: Trans-Isar, Kunstbunker Tumulka, München

   

Eva Berendes

Ancient & Modern, London

Email: mail@ancientandmodern.org

Galerie Jacky Strenz, Frankfurt

Email: info@jackystrenz.com

Sommer & Kohl
Kurfürstenstrasse 13
10785 Berlin

+49 30 2300 5581
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