Eliza Ballesteros lives and works in Vienna, Austria and is also based in Düsseldorf, NRW, Germany.She completed her studies at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf in 2019 with a thesis show of strong conceptual ideas manifested within the parameters of sculptural objects that expand with textual components and site-specific orientation.Her solo exhibition, BUTCHER'S COIN, realized in 2022 at the Westfälischer Kunstverein Münster showcased a constellation of all of her interests. In a highly visual and magically visceral presentation, she combines found and fabricated objects, imbued with cultural meaning, re-contextualized and re-interpreted to interrogate the relationship of power within social structures regarding gender norms, conventional cultural practices, and the sovereignty of interpretation.Her body of work embraces traditional materials such as velvet, steel, wood and leather featured in many articulations and have a strong presence in Germany,
where her works have been exhibited in well-established institutions, galleries and art fairs including Kunstsammlung NRW K21 (DE, 2020), Kunsthalle Düsseldorf (DE, 2021), Simultanhalle Cologne (DE, 2021), NEW POSITION at ArtCologne (DE, 2022), SCULPTURE SPOTS at Art Düsseldorf (DE, 2023), DOCK20 Lustenau (AU, 2023),
Kunsthalle Recklinghausen (DE, 2023),
and with a public commission titled, SPIKED COLLARS, installed on the roof of the Künstlerhaus Antonienbrücke’s new annex building in Leipzig (DE, 2024).International presence includes presentations at Gallery 10N Brussels (BE, 2024), forseasons.ch in Zürich (CH, 2023) Kunsthalle Exnergasse in Vienna (AU, 2022), and ZONE 1 at Vienna Contemporary (AU, 2024).In 2021, Eliza received the YOUNG ARTIST PUBLISH award from the Stiftung Kunst und Kultur Bonn e.V. and Wienand Verlag Köln. The award yielded a first monograph published in 2022 with a comprehensive essay by Luisa Rittershaus.
The same year she graduated the international exchange program
The Mountain School of Art in Los Angeles, California (USA, 2022).
She was Artist in Residence at Sihl Delta, Zurich (CH, 2023) executing the collaborative format
SIHL DELTA HORIZON - Range Of Vision | Das Blickfeld, which was genrously supported by a grant of the Ministry of Culture and Science NRW, Germany.
In 2023, she was a distinguished finalist for the Young West Art Prize in Recklinghausen.
Recently she was a fellow at
Artist Residency Schloss Balmoral in Bad Ems, Rhineland Platinate (DE, 2024).For more information or portfolio requests please get in touch:
mail or via dm at @eglitzaXOXO
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