born in Nitra (Czechoslovakia), recently works and lives in Hamburg, Germany
HfBK Hamburg, Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien, Academy of fine arts and design Bratislava
Studio: Am Sandtorkai 27-28, 20359 Hamburg, Germany
evvanhettmer.com
STUDIES
2018-2020: HfBK Hamburg, ASA Stipendium,
student of Anselm Reyle (Drawing/Painting), Jutta Koether
(Drawing/Painting), Simon Denny (New media), Broomberg
and Chanarin (Photography)
2017: guest student in the studio of Performative art – sculpture,
Univ.-Prof. Monica Bonvicini, Akademie der bildenden Künste
Wien, Vienna, Austria
2012-2020: Mag. (MFA) diplom, Contextual painting,
Univ.-Prof. Mag. MA. Ashley Hans Scheirl, Akademie der
bildenden Künste Wien, Vienna, Austria
2007-2011: Bc. (MBA) diplom at Academy of Fine art and
Design in Bratislava, Painting and other Media,Bratislava,
Slovakia
AWARDS
2020 winner in the “Malba 2020” (Painting), 2.place with
the painting “Positive vibes only”, The VUB Foundation,
VUB Bank Intesa San Paolo, Bratislava, Slovakia
2019 winner in the “Malba 2019” (Painting), 2.place with
the painting “Seeking Butterflies”, The VUB Foundation,
VUB Bank Intesa San Paolo, Bratislava, Slovakia
2011 shortlisted (finalist) in “Malba 2011” (Painting), Foundation
of VUB Bank Intesa San Paolo, Bratislava, Slovakia
2009 Finalist in “Toiles et Toiles Prize 2009”,
Galerie Daniel Vignal, Toulouse, France
COLLECTIONS:
The VUB Foundation, Slovakia
MUSA, Vienna, Austria
private collections Slovakia, Czech, Belgium, Austria
STIPENDIUMS/GRANTS:
2020 FPU foundation, project “Dirty Reiki Healer”
granted by FPU, Slovakia
2018-2019 ASA Stipendium, HfBK Hamburg,
Toepfer Stiftung, Germany
2013 ÖH Projektföderung, Akademie der bildenden Künste
Wien, Austria
COLLECTIVE:
Vereinigung bildender Künstlerinnen Österreichs (VBKÖ),Vienna, Austria
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019 “About everything but not just about an elderly
reiki healer”, Galerie 21, Vorwerkstift, Hamburg, Germany
2017 “Artist statement” Parallel Vienna, Schnirchgasse 9A,
Vienna, Austria
2015 “body&mind”, Die Pforte – Celeste, Vienna, Austria
2014 “Über”, Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien,
Vienna, Austria
2013 “Superface”, Gallery M++, Bratislava, Slovakia
2013 “Man-set”, Schikaneder, Vienna, Austria
2012 “Wilderness”, Nitra Gallery, Nitra, Slovakia
2011 “F**king garden”, MsKS Levice,Levice, Slovakia
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2020 “Painting”, the competition of The VUB Foundation,
Galeria Nedbalka, Bratislava, Slovakia
2020 with the project “About freedom and love / About the wife
of the reiki healer that lives next door”, final diplom exhibtion,
xhibit, Gallery of the Academy of fine arts, Vienna, Austria
2019 “Soga auction of young art”, SOGA, Bratislava, Slovakia
»It is not a good artwork or a painting,
if it doesn‘t disturb you, bother you or
pursue you to fall in love with it.«
Statement
The formal body of my work and my visual language that I use, intentionally develops concept leaded by spontaneity and intuition; symbology that refers rather to emotions than representation, talks about an inside and outside; reduces colour palette, but doesn’t minimalized importance of the painting as a medium as rather than talks about decorativeness and female aspect in a painting as a colour poetry than a narrative story.
Summary
- Painting is Hettmer’s weapon and shield in the fight against chauvinism and gender determinism. -- “Èv van Hettmer makes painting her weapon and shield in the fight against chauvinism and gender determinism. Repeating motifs classically associated with femininity, she spins them back at the viewer with a vengeance, cool edge, and Medusa’s laughter. Pink, red, and purple colours flash up, full bodied vases casually claim their space at the center of canvasses that wear their heart on their skin with confrontational texts written all over them. They send their message back to all who keep perpetrating violence by passing harsh judgements on art as a thin disguise for abusively judging people who refuse to submit to binary norms and obsolete gender roles.” (Edith Jeřábková – jury member of Oskár Čepan Award 2021)
