Artist Statement & Bio
Eva Gjaltema (1979) is a Dutch visual artist who has been living in Berlin since 2012. She discovered the potential of photography for understanding the relationship with herself and her environment around 2000. Photography always functioned as a tool for her to reveal unconscious thoughts, feelings and memories.
She engages with various contemporary themes, focusing on the concepts of identity, relationships, and memory. Specific themes include: female identity, motherhood, power structures within relationships, family and society. So far, she has primarily worked with the mediums of photography, collage, and mixed media in her projects, with the photobook also playing an important role.e.
She holds a Master's degree in Cultural Studies from the University of Amsterdam (2004) and a Bachelor's degree in Photography Design from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in The Hague (2008). Currently, she is pursuing training to become an art therapist.
In 2010, her work was nominated for the Dutch Doc Award for her exhibition 'Famylje,' which was showcased at the Noorderlicht Photofestival in 2010 and at the Fotomuseum Den Haag in 2015. Additionally, it was acquired by the Fries Museum in the Netherlands. She received a grant (Post Middendorp Assignment) to create the work 'Knoalster' in 2011, which was displayed at the Kunsthal Rotterdam and as a solo exhibition at the Noorderlicht Gallery Groningen. Other projects were nominated by Les Boutographies, Encontros da Imagem, Lensculture, Athens Photofestival, and Der Greif. She exhibited at various venues including Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, Frauenmuseum Wiesbaden, Rencontres d’Arles, Galerie Huit Arles, Jarvis Dooney Gallery Berlin, Hellerau Photography Awards, and Getxophotofestival. Her series 'Hiding/Hidden' was among the winners of the Hariban Award 2022 and nominated for the Critical Mass top 50 2023.
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Awards/nominations/grants
2023 Top 50 Critical Mass 2023 Nominee (USA)
2023 BBA Longlist Photography Prize 2023 (DE)
2023 Hiding/Hidden, Der Greif : Guestroom by Christoph Wiesner (INT)
2023 shortlist Hiding/Hidden, Les Boutographies (FR)
2022 honorable mention, Hiding/Hidden, Hariban Award 2022 (JP)
2019 nomination The First Three Years, book award, Encontros da Imagem (P)
2018 Patchwork, Der Greif : Guestroom by Diane Dufour (INT)
2017 nomination Patchwork, PHOTOGRVPHY Grant (USA)
2017 project Funding Quietude, Dutch Embassy Berlin (DE)
2015 shortlist Fernweh & Heimweh, Athens Photofestival (G)
2014 editors Pick & Conceptual Project, Fernweh & Heimweh, Lensculture (INT)
2011 nomination Famylje, Dutch Doc Award 2011(NL)
2010 winner Post-Middendorp assignment 2010 (NL)
Solo and Duo exhibitions (selection)
2019 selected works with Marty Sander, Tag des offenen Denkmals, Zittau (DE)
2017 Famylje, World in a Room, Berlin (DE)
2017 Quietude with Sarah Mei Herman, exp12, Berlin (DE)
2011 Knoalster, Post Middendorp, Noorderlicht Photogallery, Groningen (NL)
2010 Illumination I & II, Seelevel Gallery, Amsterdam (NL)
Group exhibitions (selection)
2024 Hiding/Hidden, Keep Your Eyes Peeled, AFF Galerie, Berlin (DE)
2024 Hiding/Hidden, Critical Mass Top 50 2023, Colorado Photographic Arts Center (USA)
2023 Hiding/Hidden, Portraits Hellerau Photography (DE)
2023 The Faraway World, ‘Kaleidoskop, International Festival of Contemporary Collage’, Frauenmuseum Wiesbaden (DE)
2022 BODY, ’Cartography of Care’, Spilt Milk Gallery, Edinburgh (UK)
2020 Stay at home with Raisa Galofre, Fotofestival Getxophoto, Getxo (SP)
2019 Fragments of Silence, Postcard Salon, Jarvis Dooney Gallery, Berlin (DE)
2018 Patchwork, Family of no man, Cosmos, Rencontres d'Arles (FR)
2018 Patchwork, 'Postcard Salon', Jarvis Dooney Gallery, Berlin (DE)
2018 Patchwork and Sehnzucht: The Remix , Hellerau Photography Awards, Dresden (DE)
2018 Sehnzucht: The Remix, Motherhood Unveiled, Stitches and Pics, NY (USA)
2017 Sehnzucht: The Remix, Insight, 10. Wiesbadener Fototage, Frauenmuseum Wiesbaden (DE)
2016 Sehnzucht, Polaroid festival, Paris (DE)
2016 Home Sweet Home & Fernweh & Heimweh, HomeBaseArchive, Saitama Triennale (JP)
2015 Famylje, Farming Folk. Adventures in the Countryside, Fotomuseum Den Haag (NL)
2014 Illumination I, Photography Open Salon, Office Sessions, Royal Docks, London (GB)
2013 Knoalster, Streekgenoten, Museum de Oude Wolden, Bellingwolde (NL)
2013 Illumination I, Photography Open Salon, Galerie Huit, Penang (Malaysia)
2012 Illumination I, Photography Open Salon, Galerie Huit, Arles (Fr)
2011 Illumination I, Zomerexpo, Gemeentemuseum, Den Haag (NL)
2011 Knoalster, CRISIS!, de Kunsthal, Rotterdam (NL)
2011 Illumination I, Summershow, Seelevel Gallery, Amsterdam (NL)
2010 Famylje, Noorderlicht photofestival, Land. Country life in the urban age, Leeuwarden (NL)
2010 wrang, Photo book dummy and artist books, Le Garage, Arles, France (FR)
Collections
Fries Museum (NL)
Art Gazette (UK)
Business Art Service (NL)
private collectors through Seelevel Gallery (now Caroline ‘O Breen) (NL)
private collectors through Karianne Rienks Art Agency (NL)
Publications (selected)
2023 catalogue Hariban Award 2022
2023 catalogue ‘Kaleidoskope’, Frauenmuseum Wiesbaden, 2023
2023 catalogue Hellerau Photography Awards 2023
2021 ZINE Berlin Collage Platfor, De/Re-Construction
2020 ‘To the streets’, Catalogue Getxophoto
2018 The First Three Years, selfpublished artist book, 250 copies
2018 catalogue Hellerau Photography Awards 2018
2017 catalogue 'Insight’, Fototage Wiesbaden
2016 catalogue ‘A Meditation on Place Collection’, SCOPE Art Miami
2012 catalogue Arles Photography Open Salon
2012 catalogue Seelevel Photogallery for Unseen Photo Fair
2012 Famylje, artist book, edition of 5
2012 New Dutch Photography Talent, GUP magazine
2011 publication ‘CRISIS! Voor de lens’, Fonds BKVB
2011 catalogue ‘Anoniem gekozen. Zomerexpo 2011’, Gemeentemuseum Den Haag
2010 catalogue ‘Land. Country life in the urban age’, Noorderlicht publishing
2008 wrang, self-made artist book, edition of 3
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