Von Unruhe zu Form

In the organizer's words:

Exhibition Eva Moeller - Painting - From unrest to form

Once again this year, the GEDOK e.V. would like to dedicate a solo exhibition in its Charlottenburg gallery to a long-standing and deserving member, the Berlin painter Eva Moeller. It is an outstanding tradition of the Künstelrinnen-Verein to present the artistic work of a personality anchored in Berlin's artistic life and at the same time to emphasize the founding idea of the association's founder, the Hamburg poet Ida Dehmel. One hundred years ago, the aim was to give the hidden qualities of women who worked creatively, thought and participated in cultural progress a place in public, German-speaking life. Their skills were to become visible, acquirable and open to discussion alongside academic discourse. Now we are celebrating the anniversary of a great idea combined with an oeuvre worth seeing and asking, have we fulfilled Dehmel's progressive and open-minded ambitions after a century?

All those interested in art are therefore cordially invited to take a look at the independent life's work of the 84-year-old artist, who was able to develop her life autonomously beyond the classical consumption of art. Secured in the continuity of a working city dweller, Eva Moeller succeeded in making an uninterrupted and successful career. In addition to fine art, she transferred her knowledge of painting to the people for several decades as a VHS course instructor in Steglitz. Her constant existence in Berlin defined the cultural core, artistic exchange trips the experience of nature in all its geographical peculiarities. Berlin is her place, from which she takes the special feeling of the city and makes it her leitmotif. After studying painting at the Hochschule der Künste am Steinplatz, Moeller began working as a freelance artist in 1985, and her work shows a constant curiosity about her origins. It is the kind of strolling discovery that only attentive, alert city dwellers, who do not reject but look, can achieve. Her motifs lie along the way, reflecting reality in fantasy, understanding architecture as an urban spatial image, the change emanating from the movements of passers-by. Impressions such as those sought by the early avant-gardists of modern painting before 1900 in the color-saturated metaphors of the great outdoors still resonate with a painter like Eva Moeller. With her expressive medium of a light-pulsating, wide-ranging color palette, she abstracts allusions from the loudness of the present and forms them into still-life-like condensations.