Eva Isleifs, born in 1982, works in Reykjavik Iceland. She received a Bachelor of Arts in Fine Arts from the Art Academy of Iceland in 2008 and a Master of Fine Arts in Sculpture from Edinburgh Institute of Art in 2010. She has participated in international exhibitions and initiatives as well as workshops and co-curated exhibitions. Recent exhibits include Anywhere Out of the World — Part 2. Site-specific at the Polish Sculpture Center, Oronsko, Poland, the solo show This is our little mistake in Living Room Gallery in Athens Greece, The Earth is my bed at Kling&Bang in Iceland 2023,  HIC SVNT DRACONES in the Galleri Kverk. Iceland 2022. Listval, Reykjavik's Dialectic Bubble Iceland 2022. Morning Briefing in Harbinger with Kevin Harman. Iceland 2021. Idavöllur, a group exhibition at the Reykjavik Art Museum 2021. Iceland. LIPIU, 2020, a group show in A-DASH, a collaboration with Rakel McMahon. Greece's Athens. 2020 outdoor exhibition in Glasgow, Scotland called Safari of Sorts. Dialectic Bubble, a 2019 collaborative project It´s the media not you! í LTD Ink Corporation in Edinburgh, Scotland. Looking for Proxies solo show in Gallery Port, Reykjavik 2019,  Real time by all solo show in MEME in Athens, Greece 2019, Top Model, 2018, group show in Govan Project Space in Glasgow. And then what? in The Living Art Museum 2019 and The Wheel 2018 outdoor exhibition by the Sculpture Association of Reykjavik, part of the Art Festival in Reykjavik. 

Eva ́s work is often reflecting the exhausted human, how the man perceives himself, the everyday and the social discourse. Ghosts of a bastard craft are lingering in the work, but as a way of replication and distortion within a historical context. She often plays with humor where hope and hopelessness play against each other and what is left are questions on how valuables and values are perceived and created. In her sculptural work she works with the notion of the replica, fact or fictional environment where she constructs performances, live or within the setting itself.  Her recent work, mainly her drawings of the symbols of a distorted and dream-like scenery, delve into a world revealing Eva’s inner rich ancestral spirits. She possesses a firm yet malleable hold between the many worlds surrounding us – binding them together and uncovering a myriad of images overflowing with cultural and spiritual meanings while fully determined to be felt.

Eva works on numerous exhibition projects in collaboration with others. Eva established the artist initiative A - DASH in Athens Greece 2017 - till today which she runs today with Christina Petkopoulou and Zoe Hatziyannaki. A - DASH is a contemporary art platform based in Athens Greece. Initiating collaborations with art practitioners from various disciplines and places in the world. She co-founded the project Staðir / Places Biennale in the West of Iceland with Þ.Olafsdottur and Becky Forsythe, curating HEAD to HEAD 2021 - 2024 an bilateral project between Iceland and Greece in collaboration with Kling and Bang. TIME TAKES TIME 2019 - 2020 with Noemi Niederhauser and Andreas Brunner. It's the media not you ! 2013 - 2020 collaboration with Rakel McMahon and Katrin I.J.H and curated the Beyond Human Impulses in Athens and Reykjavik 2018.



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