EVA BRUNNER
BERLIN / GERMANY
Swiss-born writer and photographer Eva studied Communications (Major: Film & Photography 1979-82) at the American College of Rome, Italy.
After first jobs as a theatre photographer, she started writing plays that premiered in Rome (Teatro in Trastevere). In 1985, she was a resident playwright at the Municipal Theatre of Lucerne, Switzerland. In 1987 she won a Writer’s Residency by the Berlin Senate and relocated to Berlin, working as a writer and translator ever since. In 2005 she returned to photography. From 2007 to 2011 she was a masterclass student with Professor Arno Fischer at Ostkreuzschule für Fotografie Berlin, followed by workshops and seminars with Anders Petersen, Sven Marquardt, Wolfgang Zurborn, and Tomasz Laczny (Photobook Making). In 2010 Eva was a founding member of exposure 12 – a producers’ gallery for contemporary photography. 2020 she founded the indie publishing company Edition Babev. 2016 she married science fiction author and translator Bernhard Kempen – her model.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2020
No Escape from Paradise, HAZE Gallery, Berlin
2016
Phase Transitions, Galerie Buchhandlung Hirslanden, Zurich, Switzerland
2013
Street Memories, Galería acces, Figueras, Spain
2012
Street Memories, Espai d’art Mas d’en Dorra, Fortià, Girona, Spain
2011
Paysages urbains, Galerie Dialogue c/o Festival Voies Off, Arles, France
Side Views, Galerie exp12 / exposure twelve, Berlin
2010
Bild & Bildnis, Café Lenau & Paulusgalerie, Albstadt-Tailfingen, Germany
Street Memories, Buchhandlung Galerie Hirslanden, Zurich, Switzerland
Paisatges urbans, Artefusa, Castelló d’Empúries (GE), Spain
2009
Passatges, Casa de Cultura Les Bernardes Salt, Girona, Spain
weggehen – Streetphotography, Galerie Das Ding, Lucerne, Switzerland
2008
Nebenansichten, Galerie Buchhandlung Hirslanden, Zurich, Switzerland
weggehen, Fenster61, Berlin, Germany
2007
marcharse, Bosc d’escultures Can Ginebreda, Girona, Spain
2006
Reflexiones Barcelona-Berlín, Galeria El Local, Figueras, Spain
2005
NY von fern – Willisau ganz nah, Stadtmühle Willisau, Willisau, Switzerland
1982
L’arte della performance, Foyer Teatro dell’Orologio, Rome, Italy
VIRTUAL SOLO SHOW
2022-2024 No Escape from Paradise Babev Versum
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
The World of Photography, 2 FotoNostrum – Mediterranean House of Photography, Barcelona, Spain
Shape, PH21 Gallery Budapest, Hungary
Significant Colour, PH21 Gallery Budapest, Hungary
-scapes, PH21 Gallery @ Valid World Hall Barcelona, Spain
Silence, PH21 Gallery Budapest, Hungary
Feminine / Masculine, PH21 Gallery Budapest, Hungary
20th Julia Margaret Cameron Award, Story Telling – Honorable Mention, Curated by Elizabeth Avedon, FotoNostrum – Mediterranean House of Photography, Barcelona
2023
Dolling up the lens: Barbie, PH21 Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
Past & Present, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany
Time, PH21 Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
The Natural and The Artificial, PH21 @ ART150 Gallery, Jersey City, NJ, USA
Silence, PH21 Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
19th Julia Margaret Cameron Award, Honorable Mention, FotoNostrum Mediterranean House of Photography, Barcelona, Spain
Feminine / Masculine, PH21 Gallery, Budapest
Photographic Visions, PH21 Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2022
Shape, PH21 Gallery, Barcelona, Spain
-scapes, PH21 Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
Bodyscapes, Honorable Mention – PH21 Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
Silence, PH21 Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
Feminine / Masculine, PH21 Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2021
Listen to the photographs, Pop-up Galerie Grindelallee, Hamburg, Germany
Mensch Arno, siehste! Arno-Fischer-Schüler, Treptow Ateliers, Berlin
Perceiving Landscape(s), Korai, Nicosia, Cyprus
Bodyscapes, PH21Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
100 x 100 Mujer, Goyart International, Madrid, Spain
2020
Imagination, PH21 Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
Feminine/Masculine, PH21 Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
The Art of Photography, Valid World Hall, Barcelona, Spain
2019
Pop-Up Art Exhibition Series 3, The Ballery, Berlin
Art Vs. Wall,s Goyart @ Ex-Grilfriend, Berlin
A Book About Death 10th Anniversary Ed, Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY USA
CorpoRealities, PH21 Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
Significant Colour, PH21 Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
Another Day in Paradise, In the In-Between / Gravy Gallery, Philadelphia, PA USA
Stories, PH21 Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
Postcard Salon, Jarvis Dooney Galerie, Berlin
Feminine/Masculine, PH21 Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2018
Intimate Narratives, Studio AU, Berlin
Corporealities, PH21 Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
Schaf & Wolf, mit Barbara Sturm, Kunstmesse Liste Basel, Switzerland
Significant Colours, PH21 Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
Peripheral Visions, PH21 Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
Postcard Salon, Jarvis Dooney Galerie, Berlin
Staged, PH21 Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
Morgenstund hat Kunst im Mund, Hotel Wartmann, Winterthur, Switzerland
2017
LOL, PH21 Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
Stories, PH21 Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
Art on A Postcard, The Printspace, Shoreditch, London, UK
Portraits Without Faces, PH21 Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2016
Filmriss, 7th European Month of Photography, Boulevard Berlin, Berlin
Charity-Auction Terre des femmes, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin
Schönheit der Vergänglichkeit, Seminar OKS Sven Marquardt, Station Berlin
2015
5 Jahre, exp12/exposure twelve Berlin
Kleister Weiber, Open-Air-Action, Berlin
2014
Road to Europe, S-Bhf Potsdamerplatz, 6th European Month of Photography Berlin
Kolga Tblisi Photo, International Photofestival in Tblisi, Georgia
2013
Am Rande, MfG Berlin, Open-Air-Exhibition Viadukt am Nollendorfplatz Berlin
Nebenansicht, Lange Nacht der Bilder, Galerie 22, Berlin-Lichtenberg
Kleister Weiber, Open-Air-Action, Berlin
The Flood Wall, Slide-Show, Biennale de la photographie, Mulhouse, France
Siehste, jeht doch!, Meisterklasse Arno Fischer Haus am Kleistpark Berlin
Charity-Auction Terre des femmes, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin
2012
skinning, exp12/exposure twelve Berlin, im Rahmen des MfG, Berlin
Kleister Nord, Open-Air-Action, Gleimtunnel Berlin
Fotofest Paris, Lens Culture, Paris, France
The Flood Wall, exp12 Berlin, Basis Amsterdam (NL), Chiasso (CH)
The Davis Lisboa Mini-Museum of Contemporary Art, Barcelona, Spain
Shortlist, Kolga Tblisi Photo, International Photo Festival in Tblisi, Georgia
Venerdi Treize, exp12/exposure twelve, Berlin
2011
A book about death Seattle, Quetzalcoatl Gallery Seattle, WA, USA
The ties that bind, The Second Ave Firehouse Gallery, Bay Shore, New York, USA
Ateliers Portes Ouvertes Malakoff, Paris, France
Signs of Our Times Croatia, Galerija SKC, Rijeka, Croatia
Troyart, Museu Brasileiro da Escultura (MuBE), São Paulo, Brasil
2010
Ray Johnson & A Book About Death, SAL Art Gallery Brookville, NY, USA
retake, exp12/exposure twelve 4th European Month of Photography Berlin
Fluxhibition #4 FluxMuseum, Curated by Cecil Touchon, Fort Worth, Texas, USA
Til’ Death Due Us Part, RNG Gallery, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
Surrealestate, ArtRages Mobius, Boston, MA, USA
A Book About Death, The Tabernacle MoMa Wales, Machynlleth, Wales, GB
Um livro sobre a morte, Museu Brasileiro da Escultura (MuBE), São Paulo, Brasil
Twelve exposures, Galerie exp12 / exposure twelve, Berlin
2009
Minimale Alpineum Produzentengalerie, Lucerne, Switzerland
A Book About Death, Emily Harvey Foundation Gallery New York City, USA
PHOTOGRAPHIC PUBLICATIONS / PHOTOBOOKS
2025
Eva Brunner, Perchance To Dream, Edition Babev Berlin, Germany
2021
Eva Brunner, No Escape From Paradise, Edition Babev Berlin, Germany
COMPILATIONS
2024
The World of Photography 2 FotoNostrum Publishing, Barcelona, Spain
2024
Elogio del Fracaso by Alfonso Alzamora, Caligrama Editorial, Spain
2023
Die Erfindung des Realen Berliner Seminar by Wolfgang Zurborn, Lichtblick School Cologne, Germany
2016
Filmriss European Month of Photography, Bezirksamt Steglitz-Zehlendorf, Berlin
2014
Photocatalogue Kolga Tbilisi Photo, Georgia
6th European Month of Photography Berlin Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg, Germany
2013
Siehste, jeht doch! Meisterklasse Arno Fischer Letzter Jahrgang Catalogue Exhibition Galerie Haus am Kleistpark Berlin, Germany
2012
Photocatalogue Kolga Tbilisi Photo, Georgia
A Book About Death – Seattle Quetzalcoatl Print, Seattle, USA
2010
4th European Month of Photography Berlin Kulturprojekte Berlin, Germany
2009
Eva Brunner Paisatges Amb Figura Text by Jaume Fàbrega, Casa de Cultura Les Bernardes Salt Girona, Spain