Abstract
In Postcards from Europe Eva Leitolf examines the ways Europe, and specifically the European Union, deals with its external borders and the associated internal conflicts, by bringing together images of places with carefully researched texts about past migration-related events at those places. Since 2006 the artist has undertaken long field trips to the most affected border regions in Spain and the Spanish exclaves of Melilla and Ceuta in Morocco, Hungary, southern Italy, and Greece, as well as to the English Channel ports of Calais and Dover. The project is not limited to the borders themselves: she is currently working on sites in Germany and Austria.
The project has been selected and displayed in following exhibitions:
- 2022: "HOME AGAIN. Migration | Zuhause | Erinnerung". Organized by:Heller A, Krebs O (Freundeskreis Willy-Brandt-Haus, Berlin, 01.07. - 25.09.2022). Link to the website: https://www.fkwbh.de/ausstellung/home-again
- 2022: "It takes time to build and a second to wreck". Organized by: Felix M (Städtische Galerie Delmenhorst, 09.07.-06.11.2022)
- 2022: "Mix & Match. Die Sammlung neu entdecken". Organized by: Kunze K, Schwenk B (Pinakothek der Moderne München, Munich). Link to the website: https://www.pinakothek.de/mixandmatch
- 2021: "Kassel ... mit allen Wassern gewaschen“. Organized by: Sandra A (MHK / Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel). Link to the website: https://museum-kassel.de/de/ausstellungen/kassel...-mit-allen-wassern-gewaschen
- 2018: "Space of Flows". Krakow Photomonth Festival.The Seweryn Udziela Ethnographic Museum. Link to the website: http://photomonth.com/en/portfolio/eva-leitolf-postcards-from-europe/
- 2018: "Whose land have I lit on now? Contemplations on the notions of hostipitality" Savvy Contemporary, Berlin. Link to the website: http://savvy-contemporary.com/en/projects/2018/whose-land-have-i-lit-on/
- 2018-2020: "The World to Come: Art in the Age of the Anthropocene". DePaul Art Museum, University of Chicago/USA, (2020); A. Alfred Taubman Gallery, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor/USA, (2019); The Harn Museum of Art at the University of Florida, Gainesville/USA, (2018). Link to the website: http://www.harn.ufl.edu/theworldtocom
- 2017: "Performing the Border". Kunstraum Niederösterreich, Wien. Link to the website: https://www.kunstraum.net/en/Exhibitions/1-performing-the-border
- 2017: "Global Prekär: Flucht, Trauma und Erinnerung in der zeitgenössischen Fotografie". Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich/DE. Link to the website: https://www.pinakothek.de/ausstellungen/global-prekaer-flucht-trauma-und-erinnerung-der-zeitgenoessischen-fotografie
- 2016/2015: "Zoom: Picturing Architecture and the City". Architekturzentrum Wien/Austria; Architekurmuseum München/Germany. Link to the website: https://www.architekturmuseum.de/en/publications/zoom-picturing-architecture-and-the-city/
- 2015: "When Water Matters: Painting and Photography from William Turner to Olafur Eliasson". Bucerius Kunst Forum, Hamburg/Germany (catalogue). Link to the website: https://www.buceriuskunstforum.de/en/exhibitions/when-water-matters-painting-and-photography-from-jmw-turner-to-olafur-eliasson
- 2015: "When there is Hope". Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg/Germany. Clemens von Wedemeyer et al. (catalogue). Link to the website: https://www.hamburger-kunsthalle.de/ausstellungen/when-there-hope
- 2015/2016: POSTCARDS FROM EUROPE 10/15. Solo show. Organized by: Leidl B, Kaspar-Eisert V, Leitolf E. Kunst Haus Wien, Vienna/Austria.