ArtEve and Eva-Maria Horstick | Artist at Mondoir

Nationality: German

Discipline: photography, collage, Sculpture

Based in: Dortmund, DE

Biography

ArtEve_ Eva-Maria Horstick is a contemporary artist whose practice centers u.a. on analog and digital exploration and formal clarity. Her work investigates the interplay of structure, dreams, and emotional resonance, resulting in compositions that are both restrained and expressive. Through a rigorous yet intuitive approach, Horstick develops works that engage space and perception, showing viewers into a quiet, reflective dialogue between presence and conceptual depth within contemporary artistic and exhibition contexts internationally. New, fresh, with positive Energy.

Artist Statement

My name is Eva María Horstick_ArtEve and I am a visual artist working primarily with photography and conceptual series that explore the tension between beauty and violence, visibility and silence, strength and vulnerability. My artistic work is deeply shaped by lived experience. I have worked in post-war contexts such as Kosovo and on documentary projects addressing human trafficking, while also engaging with the language of fashion, unretouched portraiture, and staged imagery. This contrast is central to my practice: I am interested in how femininity, cities and identities are aestheticized, controlled, or erased—and how art can reclaim space for complexity, dignity, and resistance. I did some projects against fasht fashion and plastic waste, projects for peace, families in rhe Ruhrearia, travllling to Israel 8 times- also for portraits and interviews with young women in Israel and Palastine. I did not involve any PR in my projects. For me my art is a direct language to speak with people from different countries. Women play u.a. a role in my work, not as symbols or ideals, but as real presences: fragile, powerful, contradictory. In projects such as Daughters of the Earth, I portray models and non-models alike, questioning who is allowed to be seen and how. Questions about the future from young women via short Interviews 2010-2020. My work without humans shift this perspective u.a. to urban nightscapes, where cities lose their identity—mirroring inner landscapes shaped by memory, trauma, and survival. please see also wikipedia and artfacts.net

Exhibitions

Selected Solo Exhibitions 2003 – 2490 Gendermainstreaming, Galerie am Arkona Platz, Germany Arteve 2005 – Photo meets Manga, Galerie Zimmermann & Heitmann, Germany Arteve 2008 – Meditativ, Galerie Camera Obscura, Dortmund, Germany Arteve 2008 – RetroSehen, Stadtgalerie Torhaus Rombergpark, Dortmund, Germany Arteve 2009 – Eva jenseits von Eden, Galerie Camera Obscura, Dortmund, Germany Arteve 2009 – Photo meets Manga, Deutsches Haus and Galerie Nicole Malmede, New York City, USA Arteve 2010 – Cancer Positiv, Museum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, Dortmund, Germany Arteve 2018 – Photography meets Manga, OAG – Deutsche Gesellschaft für Natur‑ und Völkerkunde Ostasiens, Tokyo, Japan OAG Ostasiens 2025 – Treppentwist – von oben und unten, von gestern zu morgen, HANS B, Dortmund, Germany Ars Tremonia Selected Group Exhibitions & Projects 2022 – BBK NRW State Art Exhibition, Museum Ostwall, Dortmund U, Germany Eva-Maria Horstick Visual Artist 2022 – Verschwörung, Kulturbunker Ehrenfeld (k101), Cologne, Germany Eva-Maria Horstick Visual Artist 2021 – Light Year 70: Spatial Empathy, Leo Kuelbs Collection (online/Brooklyn & Berlin) Eva-Maria Horstick Visual Artist 2020 – OUTSIDES, Virtual Group Exhibit presented by Lehr/Kuelbs Project Eva-Maria Horstick Visual Artist 2020 – GEWALT – STAAT – ÄSTHETIK, Kunstklinik Hamburg, Germany Eva-Maria Horstick Visual Artist 2019 – Benefit Art Auction for Terre des Femmes at Berlinische Galerie, Germany Eva-Maria Horstick Visual Artist Recent & Ongoing Exhibitions 2024/45 – Frauenbewegungen, Frauenmuseum Bonn, Germany (AI‑generated portraits of historical women) Eva-Maria Horstick Visual Artist 2024 – Exhibition of 8 objects in Jerusalem/Israel (Mamilla Alrov AVE) Eva-Maria Horstick Visual Artist 2025 – Vernice Art Fair, Italy Eva-Maria Horstick Visual Artist 2024 – 2490 Lost Paradise (KI works on fast fashion & plastic), WIHH Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands If you want to know more please look Wikipedia and Artfacts.net Thank you.

Awards

Awards & Scholarships Artist Scholarships from the Ministry of Culture and Science of North Rhine‑Westphalia (NRW) – granted in 2020, 2021, and 2022, supporting her ongoing artistic work

Education

ArtEve_Eva Maria Horstick received her artistic education through formal studies and continuous professional development in the visual arts. Her training emphasized traveling, conceptual thinking, and critical discourse. Complemented by study at the FH Dortmund, her education established a strong foundation for an experimental practice grounded in art and technical skill, reflective inquiry, and contemporary artistic. Long before she study - she worked as a choreographer and photographer. For her there is no Box to fit in.