EVA & ADELE (Germany)

Mediaplastic (1989-2000)

www.evaadele.com Program: Vernissage   Pavilion A   Thursday (18.03) 07:00 p.m. Meeting with the artists   Pavilion A Friday (19.03) 06:00 p.m.

While browsing the major artistic expressions of contemporary art for nearly twenty years and, while travelling through the world in their stylized
pink motor home, EVA & ADELE, living icons of contemporary art, became known, recognized,popular figures. Considering that everything that they do and are is a work of art, they develop an outstanding production, based on ideas of permanent interchange with the public, in a real symbiosis between art and mass culture, between public and private life, ignoring all barriers 1 or frontiers: these are the Grenzüberschreiter.

EVA & ADELE

Over the Boundaries of Gender is a central message of the artist duo EVA & ADELE. Oscillating between a lifestyle motto and an advertising slogan, Over the Boundaries of Gender is used in interviews and everyday conversation and is also stamped on many of their drawings and paintings. Grappling with their own sexuality, discernible in their motto, is an essential element of their artistic concept and plays out literally on their own bodies. Not only in words, but also and especially visually, they produce in their appearance a sexual identity that cannot be clearly defined as male or female. At the same time, this particular design for life constitutes their artistic oeuvre. Producer and product,subject and object overlap when one’s life is declared one’s work, creating constructive confusion. The expression Lebenskunstwerk (living work of art), coined by Paolo Bianchi, aptly characterizes this process by fusing the three words life, work, and art in that this blurs the eponymous categories of the analytical interpretatio toolkit. To explain the oeuvre on the basis of the artists’ life and the life on the basisof the work is no longer feasible in the face of a work of art like EVA & ADELE.