Eva Berendes


Born 1974, Bonn
Lives and works in Berlin

EDUCATION

1995- 1998
Akademie der Bildenden Künste, München

1999 - 2001
Hochschule der Künste, Berlin

2001 - 2002
Chelsea College of Art and Design, London
MA Fine Art*

GRANTS / RESIDENCIES

2009
Art Scope, Tokyo, Daimler Foundation Japan

2008 - 2009
Pollock- Krasner Foundation grant

2006 - 2007
Else- Heiliger- Fonds

2001 - 2002
DAAD- scholarship for postgraduates

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2010
Sommer & Kohl, Berlin, Germany (forthcoming June)
Eva Berendes & Michael Van den Abeele, Elisa Platteau Galerie, Brussels, Belgium

2009
'Silk, Grids & Souvenirs', Jacky Strenz, Frankfurt /Main, Germany
The Armory Show, New York, solo presentation, Jacky Strenz Galerie, USA

2008
Eva Berendes / Günter Fruhtrunk, Arndt & Partner, Zürich, Switzerland
'New Schubert Pink', Sommer & Kohl, Berlin, Germany

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

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

2005
'Reliefs', Center, Berlin, Germany
Goethe Institute, Dublin, Ireland

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2010
'The Long Dark', curated by Michelle Cotton, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, UK (forthcoming)
Group show, Elisa Platteau Galerie, Brussels, Belgium (forthcoming)
'INTER #4', Galerie Zink, München, Germany
'The Berlin Box', curated by Friederike Nymphius, Kunsthalle Andratx /CCA, Mallorca, Spain
'Bilder über Bilder', Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig (Mumok), Vienna, Austria

2009
'Objects, Furniture, and Patterns', Art Since The Summer of 69, New York, USA
'Paper Moon', Sommer & Kohl, Berlin, Germany
'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, Germany
'Les formes feminines', curated by Dorothee Dupuis, Triangle, Marseille, France
'From Yarn to Yucca- A Continuation of the Dialogue Between Abstraction and Figuration', John Connelly Presents, New York, USA
'All that is solid melts into air, Part II: The Thing', curated by Dieter Roelstraete, MuHKAAntwerpin collaboration with Cultuurcentrum Mechelen, Mechelen, Belgium

2008
'rep’e.t’tion', Sorcha Dallas, Glasgow, UK
The Eternal Flame, curated by Sabine Schaschl and Burkhard Melzer, Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel, Switzerland
'minimal funktional', Highlights aus der Daimer Kunst Sammlung zum Verhältnis von Kunst und Design, Museum im Kulturspeicher,Würzburg, Germany
'Foreground 08: Intervention/Decoration', curated by Simon Morrissey and Tabitha Clayson, Frome, Somerset, UK
'Hase, Krebs und Nachtigall', Galerie Mezzanin, Vienna, Austria
'Module Play & Box Promenade', Eva Berendes, Susanne Kohler, Ursula Mayer, Cell Project Space, London, UK
'Pendre la crémaillère', Sommer & Kohl, Berlin, Germany

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

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

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

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

2003
'Put Out More Flags', curated by Christabel Stewart, Sutton Lane, London, UK
'Reality Slides', Kunstverein Kohlenhof, Nürnberg, Germany
'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

Riccardo Previdi, 'Eva Berendes', Flash Art, Nr. 281, March 2010.
Christoph Schütte, 'Vasen und Krüge in Kunstlandschaft', Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Nr. 302, December 30, 2009, p. 39.
Martin Vincent, 'The Long Dark', Art Monthly, Nr. 332, Dec. - Jan. 2009/2010.
Ruth Händler, 'Eva Berendes', Capital, 12/2009, 19 Nov – 16 Dec. 2009
Anna Catharina Gebbers, 'The NADA Emerging Artist Page', L-Magazine, New York, July 22 – August 4, 2009.
'All that is solid melts into air, Five Reflections on Materialist Spirituality in Contemporary Art', MuHKA Antwerp, CultuurcentrumMechelen, 2009 (cat.)
'Bart Wells Institute', edited by Luke Gottelier and Francis Uprichard, Dent-de-Leone, 2009. (cat.)
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'Intervention/ Decoration', Foreground 08, text by Simon Morrissey, 2008. (cat.)
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'Minimalism and Applied I', Daimler Chrysler Contemporary, 2007. (cat.)
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