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Eva Grubinger
Artist's Name: Eva Grubinger
Preferred medium: installation
birth year: 1970
Nationality: AT
City: Berlin

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The artist, who was born in Salzburg in 1970 and has been living in Berlin since 1989, addresses a delicate subject in her group of installative works created for the Rupertinum: today man is caught in a contradictory social system of security and danger, deregulation and control, and he has hardly any chance to esape. The human psyche is torn between revolt and surrender, harmlessness and panic. What serves the pleasures of sports and the anticipation of a vacation trip, all of a sudden turns into a perilous instrument; Grubinger's photographs of fences and transitory spaces, her use of barrier tapes like those at airports and customs offices, her opaque partition walls and compacted control and cooling towers transpose the viewer into a scenario of irritating ambivalence. The objects leave many questions unanswered and provide some clues at the same time: In an unsettled world the meanings of objects change and rapidly take the form of baleful symbolisms. "Trespassing" is the title of this exhibition which alludes to taboo areas such as prohibited zones as well as to rhetorics of power in urban areas, which use architecture as a means to direct or exclude glances and bodies or turn them into unlawful intruders. In this way normal human actions are stigmatized as abuses, gestures of everyday life are toppled. Eva Grubinger confronts the viewer with a world in which violence is lurking behind a facade of security, where firm terrain drifts into abysms, in which the perceptive individual is subjected to terrifying uncertainty. (Museum der Moderne Salzburg Rupertinum)

important exhibitions from Eva Grubinger

Exhibition Location City Country Date
Eva Grubinger Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt DE 29.11.2007
Eva Grubinger Trespassing Museum der Moderne Salzburg Mönchsberg Salzburg AT 07.02.2009
e-flux VIDEO RENTAL KW Institute for Contemporary Art Berlin DE 05.03.2005
jetzt/now - Eva Grubinger Berlinische Galerie Berlin DE 22.10.2004
Eva Grubinger BALTIC The Centre for Contemporary Art Gateshead GB 13.09.2003
Geheimgesellschaften Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt DE 23.06.2011
Funky Lessons Bawag Contemporary - BAWAG Foundation Wien AT 17.12.2004
SECRET SOCIETIES To Know, To Dare, To Will, To Keep Silence capc Musée d'art contemporain Bordeaux FR 09.11.2011
TRIENNALE LINZ 1.0 Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz Linz AT 03.06.2010
e-flux video rental Portikus Frankfurt DE 04.09.2005

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Collections representing
Eva Grubinger

Berlinische Galerie
Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig GfZK
Kiasma - Museum of Contemporary Art
Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst
MUSA - Museum auf Abruf
Museum Abteiberg
Museum Moderner Kunst - Stiftung Ludwig - MUMOK
Ursula Blickle Stiftung