1960 | Born in Hall, Austria; she lives and works in Vienna, Austria.

In her artistic practice, Eva Schlegel explores space in all its dimensions—architectural, mathematical, and physical. Working across photography, sculpture, and installation, she investigates the relationship between objects and perception, highlighting the contradictions and ruptures that emerge in this exchange. Her installations, often experimental and materially diverse, incorporate photography on surfaces such as lead, mirror, and glass. These works reflect a deep engagement with meaning—meaning that arises through deliberately shaped associations and the layered depths they uncover. Schlegel’s art moves within the tension between concealment and revelation, dissemination and secrecy. It probes the inner architecture of desire, and the visual legibility encoded in images. At once mesmerizing and elusive, her works challenge the intellectual frameworks we use to interpret ambiguous experiences of existence and perception. Within this terrain of inquiry, her practice oscillates between the dense, fated gravity of lead and the fleeting condensation of cloud-like forms—mirroring consciousness itself, as it shifts and reshapes from moment to moment.