Null Uhr Nachtaktiv Eiffelturm
Paris
Photoart cm 50 x 70 2010
Photoart cm 70 x 100 2010
Berlin
NYC 1
Photoart cm 40 x 70 2010
Photoart cm 70 x 100 2009
NYC 2 - Police station
Bag - Vogue
Photoart cm 40 x 50 2007
Photoart cm 70 x 100 2000
Sulla sua Arte
EVA-MARIA HORSTICK has been photographing since the age of ten. From 2000 to 2003, she studied Photodesign at the Dortmund University of Applied Sciences and completed her degree with a thesis in Kosovo on the theme of police work and the UN’s role. Three of these works were exhibited in a traveling exhibition by Terre des Femmes between 2005 and 2016.
Before her studies, Horstick worked as a choreographer and photographer, and in the early 1980s, she also worked as a model for fashion shows. It was during this period that she developed the idea of mixing fashion shows with theatre, pop music, rock music, opera, and dance. Her shows were presented from 1986 to 1997 in North Rhine-Westphalia with her then show and model company.
In 1997, after her brother died in a car accident, she decided to leave the show and modeling industry behind. Since then, she has focused on non-profit projects related to peace and tolerance, as well as identity and the consequences of war. Her first solo exhibition in the Galerie am Arkona Platz in Berlin addressed the Iraq War, the UN’s responsibility, and the concept of the Iraq War being sold like an advertising campaign. Gendermainstreaming 2490 explored the role of women in wars and the neglect of victims. This was followed by further exhibitions on domestic violence, human trafficking, and forced prostitution. Between 2005 and 2008, she also worked on projects like Families in the Region, Photo meets Manga, and Babaismus, which critically addressed the beauty obsession of contemporary times.
In 2006, Horstick created an installation with eleven mannequins in collaboration with the Dortmund Art Association, highlighting the power of FIFA. In 2005 and 2006, she performed at the Art Fair Cologne with Blind Spot and Autovoyeurism. In Blind Spot, the artist photographed the fair visitors with her eyes blindfolded, while they simultaneously saw themselves on a screen placed behind her. In 2006, she was invited to the Frauenmuseum in Bonn to collaborate with other artists on an exhibition about human trafficking. Other exhibitions followed on the theme of violence against women. From 2008 to 2010, she lived in New York City, where she exhibited at the German House in Manhattan (Photo meets Manga) and at the Jewish Center in Manhattan (2490 against Human Trafficking, in collaboration with Brooke Bryant from NYC). Alongside her non-profit work, she produced several contemporary art series.
Horstick’s later projects included Daughters of the Region, a series in Israel, peace projects, and projects in the Ruhr area with local people. Between 2004 and 2016, she worked on the In a Room series, which reflects on identity and her life. Since 2008, she has been photographing cities at night as part of an ongoing series. Between 1990 and 1997, she was often a guest at the Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck. She was friends with Johannes Wasmuth, the museum’s director at the time, who introduced her to the art world before he passed away in the same week as her brother Uli in 1997. During her marriage from 1994 to 2016, she was known as Horstick-Schmitt.
Since 2023, Horstick has been working on sculptures, which will be exhibited in Jerusalem in 2024 and 2025. Since 2022, she has also been working with Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs). She will be the first artist in Germany to showcase AI-based works in a museum (Frauenmuseum Bonn) starting March 8, 2024. Furthermore, she has revived her theme of plastic and fast fashion from 1999 and conceptualized a new AI-generated exhibition, which will premiere in Amsterdam at the WIHH Gallery in 2024.
Works in Museums
32 works in the collection of the Museum for Art and Cultural History Dortmund
3 works in the collection of the Federal Republic of Germany
1 work in the Museum for Applied Arts Cologne
1 work in the State Library
Terre des Femmes Auction NRW Link
Grants
Three artist grants (2020, 2021, 2022) from the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia.
Solo Exhibitions
2003 Galerie am Arkona Platz "2490" Gendermainstreaming
2005 Galerie Zimmermann und Heitmann "Photo meets Manga"
2006 Dortmunder Kunstverein Installation with 11 Mannequins
2008 Galerie Camera Obscura Dortmund Eva "Meditative"
2008 Stadtgalerie Torhaus Rombergpark Dortmund "RetroSehen"
2009 Galerie Camera Obscura Dortmund "Eva Beyond Eden"
2009 Deutsches Haus NYC "Photo meets Manga"
2009 Galerie Nicole Malmede "Photo meets Manga"
2010 Museum for Art and Cultural History Dortmund Cancer Positiv
2010 Levantehaus Hamburg "Photo meets Manga"
2011 Museum for Art and Cultural History "Unretouched" Families in the Region
2012 Aaartfoundation Austria "What a Wonderful World"
2013 Galerie Art Engert Eschweiler "Null Uhr Nachtaktiv"
2014 Stadt Galerie in Altena "Daughters 2010–2014" "Unretouched" Families in DE
2014 Galerie So-66 Münster "Null Uhr Nachtaktiv"
2015 Museum Gescher "What a Wonderful World"
2015 Studio Galerie Düsseldorf "Babaismus"
2015 Art Beat Gallery Brussels Eva Horstick-Schmitt
2015 NRW Landesvertretung "Unretouched - Families in the Region"
2016 Art Beat Gallery Brussels "Manga Photos Manga"
2016 Galerie Hovestadt Nottuln "Eva 2490"
2018 Deutsche Gesellschaft für Natur- und Völkerkunde Ostasiens (OAG) in Tokyo, Japan "Photography meets Manga"
Group Exhibitions
2005 Kunsthalle Tübingen with Terre des Femmes "Without Glamour and Shine"
2005–2016, 85 further exhibitions with Terre des Femmes
2005 Zeche Zollverein Essen Kunstquadrate 05
2006 Frauenmuseum Bonn Sex Trafficking Myths and Violence
2006 Zollverein Essen Kunstquadrate 06
2006 Galerie Art Isotope "Art Goal Wall"
2008 Moorvilla Freiman Munich "Feme Fire Fanaticism"
2008 Lahnstein "Change of Tracks"
2009 Villa Romenthal Diessen am Ammersee Contemporary Art
2010 Hoesch Museum "Missing Steel"
2012 Ludwig Gallery Schloss Oberhausen "At Home, The View Through the Keyhole"
2013 Altes Museum am Ostwall "Art against Female Genital Mutilation"
2013 Berlinische Galerie Berlin with Terre des Femmes – Benefit Art Auction
2014 Frauenmuseum Bonn "The Blue Rider and Her Circle"
2014 Frauenmuseum Bonn "Single Moms"
2015 Frauenmuseum Bonn "Women in War and Peace"
2015 Städtische Kunstgalerie Torhaus Rombergpark Dortmund "Insights"
2016 Berlinische Galerie Berlin with Terre des Femmes – Benefit Art Auction
2019 Berlinische Galerie Berlin with Terre des Femmes – Benefit Art Auction
2020 Kunstklinik Hamburg "Violence - State - Aesthetics" (Online due to Covid, rescheduled to 2021)
2020 Lehr/Kuelbs Project "Outsides" (Eva-Maria Horstick presented photographs from Israel) – New York City, USA
2020 Wissenschaftspark Gelsenkirchen "Parallel Worlds" – Photography on child poverty in Germany
2020 GAF Galerie für Fotografie Hannover "Theater of Life" – Street Photography
2021 Leo Kuelbs Collection – New York City/Berlin "Light Year 70: Spatial Empathy"
2022 Kulturbunker Ehrenfeld Cologne k101 "Conspiracy" – 30 Positions by Various Artists
2022 Atelierhaus Westfalenhütte Dortmund BBK Westfalen e.V. – Culture and War
2022 Lacuna Art Festival Lanzarote, Spain
2022 Museum U, Dortmund "Clear Edge" – Video Installation on the theme of water by Eva-Maria Horstick
2023 Lacuna Art Festival Lanzarote, Spain
2024 Frauenmuseum Bonn "Women’s Movements" – Eva-Maria Horstick will present 17 AI-generated portraits of deceased female writers
2024 Jerusalem, Israel, Alrov Mamilla Avenue Gates – Dove of Peace 2024 –