Vivian Eckstein explores the intricate relationship between identity, culture, and human experience through her multifaceted artistic practice, characterized by a fusion of figurative painting, collage, installation and wearable art.
Her multidimensional works reflect on the transformative power of art and travel and critically examine societal roles and the representation of the female body, through storytelling, surrealism, mysticism and figuration. References to history, literature and feminist history are woven into the paintings, while she gives the depicted figures further space to unfold through textile, wearable objects, collages and installations.
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ABOUT the artist
Vivian Eckstein studied at the State Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe and the Beaux-Arts de Paris, receiving the title of Meisterschülerin in Karlsruhe. Eckstein exhibits regularly in Germany and abroad and has received numerous prizes and grants, e.g., the Eb Dietzsch Art Prize for Painting and the Baden-Württemberg Graduate Fund travel scholarship, which she spent in Madrid in 2022.
As an art educator, Eckstein has worked at renowned museums including the ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, Kindl Berlin, and the Kleines Grosz Museum. She has been living and working in Berlin since 2023. In her paintings, collages, and wearable objects, she critically examines the representation of the female body, social roles, and questions of identity and perception.
