Eva Berendes and Arantxa Etcheverria

Eva Berendes was born in Germany in 1974 and studied an MA in Fine Art at Chelsea College of Art & Design. Her approach is characterized by thinking through purely abstract and visible forms in the diverse fields of decoration, exhibition, furniture design, and urban infrastructure. She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, the HdK (UdK) in Berlin, and Chelsea College of Art and Design in London. Her work has been exhibited in galleries and institutions such as the Hara Museum in Tokyo, the CRG Gallery in New York, the Witte de With in Rotterdam, the Daimler Collection in Berlin, the S1 Artspace in Sheffield, and the S1 Artspace in Vleeshal in Middelburg. She has received scholarships from the DAAD, the Art Fund Foundation, and the Pollock Krasner Foundation, and was recently awarded the Bonner Kunstpreis 2021.

Arantxa Etcheverria was born in France in 1975 and has lived and worked in Romania since 2006. She studied visual arts at the Villa Arson in Nice and set and costume design at the Théâtre National de Strasbourg. Her recent solo exhibitions include Red Door (2018), at the Creart gallery in Bucharest, Interiors (2017) at the Victoria Art Center, or Comedy and Given Random in Musette Cube and Atelier 35 (2015). Anatomy (2014) in Alert studio Bucharest, Corner (2014) at Calina Gallery in Timisoara or Studio / Structures (2014) at the MNAC Anexa. Arantxa has participated in several group exhibitions, such as Media Art Festival in Arad (2016-2018), in