Christina Eva Walz

My artistic practice unfolds within the tension between memory, emotion, and transformation. I work through drawing, painting, and collage, using a layered approach in which traces, fragments, and shifting forms appear, dissolve, and re-emerge. In this way, I create abstract image spaces that invite reflection rather than fixed interpretation.
My visual language is deeply shaped by a long-standing engagement with history, archaic symbolism, and funerary cultures. During my fine art studies at the University of Mainz, I intensively explored prehistoric and Indigenous art as well as burial and mourning rituals—sources that continue to inform the emotional and conceptual depth of my work.
At the same time, contemporary themes and urban experiences increasingly flow into my practice. In my current focus, Urban Landscapes, I translate impressions of cityscapes, soundscapes, and urban atmospheres into an abstract vocabulary in which external realities intersect with inner psychological landscapes.
I do not view my works as narratives but as open spaces of resonance—quiet, poetic, and multilayered. My aim is to create visual environments that evoke inner images, memories, and associations within the viewer.
I live and work as an independe...

1992
Diploma in Fine Arts (Drawing), Mainz University of Art / Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz

1985–1992
Studies in Fine Arts, Mainz University of Art (Johannes Gutenberg University)

2025
• BAAM (Berlin Artist Art Market) exhibition: 20 works
• Galleryone962:
◦ Virtual exhibition “Color & Time”
◦ Virtual exhibition “Fragile Infinity”
1998
• Group exhibition at Städtische Galerie Brückenturm, Mainz
• Solo exhibition at Restaurant, Darmstadt
• Group exhibition at Frankfurter Hof, Mainz
• Group exhibition Bürgerhaus Hechtsheim
1997
• Solo exhibition Restaurant, Mannheim
• Solo exhibition Praxis Dores, Mainz
• Group exhibition Eisenturm, Mainz
• Group exhibition Rathausfoyer, Mainz
1996
• Group exhibition Sparda-Bank, Mainz
• Solo exhibition Café/Restaurant, Wiesbaden
• Solo exhibition Café Mailandsgasse, Mainz
• Solo exhibition Praxis Heidbüchl, Mainz
1995
• Solo exhibition Kanzlei Westphal, Darmstadt
• Group exhibition Sparkasse, Mainz
• Group exhibition Eisenturm, Mainz
• Group exhibition Lampenfabrik, Mainz
1994
• Solo exhibition, Art'n Act Gallery, Mainz
• Group exhibition, Municipal Gallery
Brückenturm, Mainz
• Group exhibition, Frankfurter Hof, Mainz
1993
• 1st prize, “Art and Artists from Rhineland-Palatinate”: Exhibition of a room installation consisting of 140 meters of labeled transparent
paper webs, Speyer
• Solo exhibition Kanzlei Schreiber, Mainz
• Solo exhibition Art'n Act Gallery, Mainz
• Group ...