EVA KRAUSE

Eva Krause (1970), born in Düsseldorf, Germany, currently lives and works in Rotterdam. After two years of studying Object-Design at the Fachhochschule (art academy) in Krefeld, Eva Krause graduated in Visual Communication at the Fachhochschule in Düsseldorf (1996). In 2001 Eva Krause graduated from the Willem de Kooning Academy. Krause has been exhibiting her work in art spaces, galleries and museums. Among these are WTC Gallery (Rotterdam), Huis Henk Visch (Eindhoven) and Museum Kunstpalast (Düsseldorf, Germany). Krause also had an artist-in-residence at Vincent Van Gogh Huis (Zundert).

In her youth, Eva Krause visited every church that came their way during holidays at her father’s insistence. The deeper into southern Germany, the richer the decorations, the more detailed the carvings, altars, crosses and windows. For Krause, not religiously, these were impressive experiences. Before she graduated from the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam, she studied Object Design at the FachHochschule in Krefeld, where she took classes in more traditional disciplines such as woodcarving. All previously practiced disciplines come together in her recent paintings.

According to Eva Krause, paintings have a language of their own. A language full of emotion, instinct and sense. Art is not always a universal language. One can only understand art in a limited way, depending on our own individual parameters at a social and cultural level. Ultimately, we have to do with our own limited interpretative capacity. People look at art and reflect on their own experiences, and from that a new experience grows. Krause has abandoned  the ‘need to understand’ and loves it when her work remains mysterious and inexplicable. Her misleading imagery is a game with the aim of confusion. She plays with the human need to want to understand everything.  By suggesting a connection between unrelated elements, the viewer is challenged to try to understand, solve and trace the origin of her work.

Krause paints without a preconceived plan. The outcome is uncertain. Her canvases provide a stage for the banal, wrong and marginal in a society more focused than ever on perfection and profit maximization. Someone described her work as a carnival that goes on for a while after all the people have left. Even though people are the biggest absentees on her canvases, the traces they leave behind are visible. The carelessly abandoned objects have characteristics of mass production. Lying in the grass, or hanging from a bush, they are brightly colored and therefore very artificial. Man has never been so present and at the same time so incredibly absent. You take a seat on a chair still warm from its predecessor.

Exhibitions at Galerie Nasty Alice: Art Rotterdam 2025 . Een moment van onbevangen verwondering 2023 . De Schaar van de Schorpioen 2022 . Art The Hague 2022 . Barocco 2021 . Land of Glory 2019 . Best of Portfolio days 2018 .