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
2011
'The Somerset Curtain', Elisa Platteau & Cie Galerie, Brussels, Belgium
'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, Germany
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
The Return Gallery, Goethe Institute, Dublin, Ireland
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2011
'Art Scope: Eva Berendes, Meiro Koizumi, Hiroe Saeki, Jan Scharrelmann', Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
'Beyond Gestaltung', Bielefelder Kunstverein, Bielefeld, Germany
'Invited',
Galerie Klaus Benden, Köln, Germany
Jacky Strenz Galerie, Frankfurt, Germany
'Bold Tendencies 5', sculpture commission, Peckham Multi-Storey Car Park, London, UK
Group Show, curated by Sarah Staton, Mount Stuart Trust, Isle of Bute, Scotland, UK
'Modernism has two faces....',
Mount Stuart, Isle of Bute, Scotland
'Madame Realism', MARRES, Center for Contemporary Culture, Maastricht, The Netherlands
'Der Menschen Klee', KIT, Düsseldorf, Germany
'Making is thinking', Witte de With, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2010
'Construction and its Shadow', curated by Andrew Bick, Leeds Arts Gallery, UK
'Between the lines, works by Eva Berendes and Zoe Paul', Cass Sculpture Foundation, Goodwood, West Sussex, UK
'The Long Dark', curated by Michelle Cotton, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, UK
Elisa Platteau Galerie, Brussels, Belgium
'Bilder über Bilder', Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig (Mumok), Wien, Austria
'INTER #4', Galerie Zink, München, Germany
'The Berlin Box', curated by Friederike Nymphius, Kunsthalle Andratx /CCA, Mallorca, Spain
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, MuHKA Antwerp in 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
'Back and Forth 1: Otto Boll, Eva Berendes, Matthew Burbidge, Ali Kaaf', Villa Grisebach Gallery, 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
2005
'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
2003
'Put Out More Flags', curated by Christabel Stewart, Sutton Lane, London, UK
'The Fragile Underground', curated by David Thorpe, Bart Wells Institute, London, UK
BIBLIOGRAPHY
'Eva Berendes, People and Events will be the decoration', S1 Artspace, 2011 (exh. booklet)
'Making is thinking', Witte de With, 2011 (ebook)
'The Long Dark', Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, 2010 (exh. booklet)
'Between the lines, works by Eva Berendes and Zoe Paul', Cass Sculpture Foundation, 2010 (exh. booklet)
'Jacky Strenz Galerie', Elle 06/2010, City Frankfurt, Kunst & Kultur, p. 41
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.
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.)
Christiane Rekade, 'What do we do with it ?', Mousse Magazine, Feb. /March 2009.
Jack Mottram, 'When exhibitions hang together', The Herald, Dec. 12, 2008.
Oliver Tepel, 'Halb/Zeit Half/Time', Checkpoint#6, Sept. – Dec. 2008.
Oliver Tepel, 'Im schönen Nichts ist alles egal', Spex #316, Sept. / Oct. 2008.
Colin Glen, 'Intervention / Decoration', Art Monthly, Nr. 317, June 2008.
'Intervention/ Decoration', Foreground 08, text by Simon Morrissey, 2008. (exh. booklet)
Melissa Gronlund, 'Eva Berendes', Frieze 111, Review, Nov. - Dec. 2007.
'Minimalism and Applied I', Daimler Chrysler Contemporary, 2007. (cat.)
Charlotte Bonham-Carter, Florian Baudrexel, 'Eva Berendes: Chess', Contemporary Magazine #92, June 2007, p. 69.
'Minimalism and After, Tradition and Tendencies of Minimalism from 1950 to the Present', DaimlerChrysler Contemporary, Hatje Cantz Verlag (cat.)
Peter Abs & Oliver Tepel, 'Listing Best of 2006', Spex #306, No 01-02/2007.
Catriona Black, 'Material benefits', Sunday Herald, Jan. 7, 2007.
Jack Mottram, 'Peeking behind the curtain', The Herald, Dec. 22, 2006.
Robert Clark, 'Friedrich Edinburgh', The Guardian Guide, Dec. 23 - 29, 2006.
Tim Scott, 'Communism at Project', CIRCA 112, 2005.
Robbie O’Halloran, 'Communism at Project', CIRCA 111, 2005, pp. 110-111.