GROUP EXHIBITION

The installations and sculptures of Carolin Eidner embody the freely associative structure of thought. As the artist follows her intuitive thread, she lets her materials–found objects, wood, fabric, vegetables, ceramic glass, bamboo, fire–come together with a lightness that mirrors her process. Neither fixed nor solid, objects lean, lie or float, combined with ethereal drawing and painting, merging with the exhibition space rather than occupying it. Eidner’s enticingly rambling, yet conceptual work evades ideology and narrative, embracing the ambivalent.

Carolin Eidner (b. 1984, Berlin, Germany) studied at the Alanus University for Arts and Social Sciences, Bonn (2007–2009); the University of Applied Arts Vienna (2009–2010); and the Düsseldorf Art Academy (2010-14), where she was a ‘Meisterschülerin’ of Rosemarie Trockel. Her work has been shown at the Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel; Natalia Hug, Cologne; Manifesta, Belgium; Galerie Max Mayer, Düsseldorf; Therme Gallery, Tokyo; and Interstate Projects, New York, to name a few. Eidner won the 2014 Audi Art Award, and was shortlisted for the 2014 and 2015 Peter-Mertes stipend. The artist lives and works in Düsseldorf.

Yevgeniya Baras’s work can be seen as a combination of geology and physiology. Rough and mountainous textures are covered with thick and scarred skins of paint, evoking bodies marked by life. The artist constructs her canvasses through carving, embroidering, and collaging, intentionally creating a challenging surface on which to paint. As her works are built over a prolonged period of time, each one forms an extremely local history, a visual testament to its own creation. Abstract symbols hover right at the edge of the recognisable, hinting towards collective archetypes.