Èv Eva Hettmer

DE/AT/SK
~ Hamburg, Vienna, Bratislava
~ born in Czechoslovakia

~ my work is an epical production, that questions quantity, quality, risk and free time.

~ making ephemeral situations my passion, i do use unstable fragile vanishing materials (when we do not count my painting). i like asking and engaging fragility and ability of persistence. however i strongly engage an inherent aesthetically form, my language is conceptual. along playing with visual seductiveness, i push the work with the perception of manifold layers of meaning.

~ my topics are build up on reflecting framed reality of my environment and contemporaneity of daily events. works are a social character in order to punctuate on priorities and gaining more free time. applying participative and performative qualities, i collect emotional energy upon with is a subject being manifested. outcome of this manipulation feels sometimes raw, it interacts with a viewer's physicality. everyday objects are altered or detached from their natural functions to question 'to must' vs. 'to need'. this associates a wish to learn from mistakes. i do not try to express proprognoses of happiness, or to criticise today for getting a better tomorrow.
i perceive myself as a femini...

2018 - 2019 HfBK Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
2012 - 2020 Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien, Austria
2007 - 2011 Academy of fine arts and design Bratislava, Slovakia

2019/06 ASA Open Studios, Karolinenstrasse 2a, Hamburg, Germany (group exhibition)

2019/08 Galerie 21 Vorwerkstift Hamburg, Germany (solo exhibition)