Born in 1974 in Bonn, Eva Berendes studied at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Munich and the Hochschule der Künste in Berlin, prior to completing her MA in Fine Art at Chelsea College of Art and Design in 2002. Often a mixture of high art, design and basic craftsmanship, Berendes' works create meaning that reaches far beyond the works ostensibly modernist aesthetic. Berendes' works are often influenced by sources as diverse as Russian Suprematist painting, Bauhaus, Amish quilt-makers, the Arts and Crafts Movement, Hollywood sets and 1980s Memphis furniture. Employing the formal vocabularies…
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Born in 1974 in Bonn, Eva Berendes studied at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Munich and the Hochschule der Künste in Berlin, prior to completing her MA in Fine Art at Chelsea College of Art and Design in 2002.
Often a mixture of high art, design and basic craftsmanship, Berendes' works create meaning that reaches far beyond the works ostensibly modernist aesthetic. Berendes' works are often influenced by sources as diverse as Russian Suprematist painting, Bauhaus, Amish quilt-makers, the Arts and Crafts Movement, Hollywood sets and 1980s Memphis furniture. Employing the formal vocabularies of these varied sources, Berendes produces works that combine and conflate these histories, alluding not only to their rigorous aesthetics, but also to the political and cultural climates from which they arose.
Since 2003 Berendes has participated numerous group and solo shows all over Europe and the USA including Bilder über Bilder, MUMOK, Vienna (2010), All that is solid melts into air, MuHKA, Antwerp (2009), Minimalism and Applied, Daimler Contemporary (2007), Silk, Grids & Souvenirs, Jacky Strenz, Frankfurt (2009), New Schubert Pink (2008) at Sommer & Kohl, Berlin, a solo presentation at The Armory Show, New York (2009) and a solo show at Ancient and Modern, London (2007).
In 2001 Berendes received the DAAD scholarship for postgraduates. In 2006, Berendes was beneficiary of the Else-Heiliger-Fonds, followed in 2008 by the Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant. In 2009 she was awarded an Art Scope residency at the Daimler Foundation, Japan.
