Künstler Vivian Eckstein

Vivian Eckstein


Vivian Eckstein's oeuvre comprises expansive maze-like installations through which she lets performers move. 

Furthermore, costumes, coats and masks made by the artist, which she describes as wearable objects. These are very often lined with her own hair and appear in her paintings as clothing. 

Figurative painting is Eckstein's main focus and always the starting point for all other works. She creates scenes and moments on the canvas that are composed of everyday situations, equally dreamlike or nightmarish. 

The artist explores the relationship to her own body as a woman, social roles and interpersonal encounters. 

Identity and the ambivalence of perception are central questions that Eckstein expressively addresses through color, symbolism, surrealism and her own materiality and poetry. 

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Artworks

Vita

2023

lives and works in Berlin (GER)

2022

Scholarship residence in Madrid (ESP)

2018–2022

lives and works in Karlsruhe (GER)

2017–2018

Master student | Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe (GER) with Prof. Helmut Dorner

2016

Studies at the École Supérieure des Beaux Arts Paris (FRA), class of Prof. Jean-Marc Bustamante

2012 – 2017

Studies at the Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe (GER) with Prof. Helmut Dorner

Exhibitions (selection)

2023

View group show | Opse Project zur Berlin Art Week | DSTRCT.Berlin | Berlin (GER) (Group exhibition)

FOMONO | Hinterconti | Hamburg (GER) (Group exhibition)

2022

Die Zitronenpresserin | Das Gute Leben Galerie | Kandel (GER) (Solo exhibition)

Weil wir vergessen, dass wir Menschen sind | Kulturzentrum Schauenburgstraße | Karlsruhe (GER) (Group exhibition)

Ice Cream im Milchhäusle | Kunstraum Neureut | Karlsruhe (GER) (Solo exhibition)

Ausstellung der Nominierten des Eb-Dietzsch-Kunstpreises für Malerei (Group exhibition)

2021

V12 Jubiläumsausstellung | Karlsruhe (GER) (Group exhibition)

Spitting Diamonds Südpfalz Edition | Das Gute Leben Galerie | Kandel (GER) (Group exhibition)

Projekt F Gruppenausstellung | Karlsruhe (GER) (Group exhibition)

Projekt F Ausstellungen | curatorial work | Karlsruhe (GER) (Group exhibition)

2020

Ausstellung der Finalisten des Barcelona Gallery Award (Group exhibition)

Melusine | Bezirksregierung Münster (GER) (Solo exhibition)

Galerientag der Stadt Karlsruhe | Ateliergemeinschaft V12 | Karlsruhe (GER) (Group exhibition)

RaumSchau | Overhead Gallery | Münster (GER) (Group exhibition)

Online Viewing Room | Galerie U108 | München (GER) (Group exhibition)

Body of Work with Diana Agunbidale-Kolawole | Poly Produzentengalerie | Karlsruhe (GER) (Group exhibition)

Body of Work with Diana Agunbidale-Kolawole | Galerie Pershagen | Stockholm (SWE) (Group exhibition)

2019

Storyboard of an artist‘s persona | with Desriée Eppele | Luis Leu | Karlsruhe (GER) (Group exhibition)

237 | with Martin Pöll and Boglarka Balassa | Orgelfabrik Durlach | Karlsruhe (GER) (Group exhibition)

2018

TOP_0018 | Kunstverein Heidelberg (GER) (Group exhibition)

2017

Ariadnefäden | Diploma exhibition | Academy of FIne Arts Karlsruhe (GER) (Solo exhibition)

ARTWORKROOM Gallery | Hainfeld (GER) (Solo exhibition)

Ariadnefäden | Kalinowski-Raum | Academy of FIne Arts Karlsruhe (GER) (Solo exhibition)

Awards & scholarships

2023

Purchase of an artwork by the Berliner Abendblatt as part of the competition "Kunst für alle“ 

2022

First place in the Eb-Dietzsch Art Prize for Painting

2021

Inclusion of "Project F" in the collection of the Badisches Landesmuseum

Sponsorship | "Project F" exhibition series by the City of Karlsruhe and the Karlsruhe Regional Council

Scholarship | MWK Baden-Württemberg

Scholarship | Graduate Support Program of tthe Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe

2020

Funding within the federal program NEUSTART KULTUR

Finalist of the Barcelona Gallery Awards

Publication

2022

Eb-Dietzsch-Kunstpreis für Malerei | Exhibition catalog

2019

237 | Exhibition catalog

2018

TOP_0018 | Exhibition catalog

Vivian Eckstein - Katalog | published as part of the master student program TOP_0018 by the Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe