Eva von Platen (b.1965) Nuremberg, Germany.
Eva von Platen has always enjoyed the process of destroying newspapers and other printed matter and glueing the pieces together to create something new, triggered by the impulse to find out what things are made of, exploring their potential in new, unexpected contexts. Since then Eva has used these principles of collage in the media of drawing and film as well.

She studied visual communication and fine arts in Offenbach, New York and Cologne and today works as a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg.

Eva’s work process is clearly divided into the slow-paced and thorough collection of footage and materials that can expand over years, and then the fast, intuitive “playing around” with these elements. Her stated objective is to aim for the bizarre, contradictory and irrational in an intelligent and transparent way, as these are the more relevant aspects in her life.

Although using digital media allows more flexibility with variations, Eva prefers traditional practices in her work because they more easily show the love they were made with and “look more sexy”.