Eva Ďurovec

What would Francis of Assisi and Napoleon talk about if they looked down from the heavens today? Eva Ďurovec revisits the premise of Ernst Toller’s Nie wieder Friede in a series of large collages—cut out of dailies from different countries—whose silhouettes recall characters from the play and thus retell it. Made in spring and summer 2025, the collages document the increasingly distant prospect of peace—whether in Ukraine or Palestine—giving way to ongoing or future wars. While the antiheroes of the action multiply in many different poses, current events are complemented by frightening foreshadowings of civil war in the United States or a bigger confrontation with China.

Eva Ďurovec (1981, Snina, Czechoslovakia) is an artist who often combines autobiographical texts with global and local issues in her objects. She deals with living spaces and fulfillment in the context of social, economic, and environmental crises, as well as with corporate power and kleptocracy and their impact on our planet. Her works have been shown, for instance, at After the Butcher, Berlin (2022); Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof, Hamburg (2021); and Galerie Wedding, Berlin (2019). Ďurovec has had solo exhibitions at the Jozef Kollár Gallery, Banská Štiavnica, among others. She lives in Košice and Berlin.