Martin Eder

Martin Eder's new body of work is inhabited by ghostly hybrid creatures. Blurring the transition between humans, animals, and supernatural beings, Eder explores the motif of the boundary and its transgression in his oil paintings. His subjects allude to an encounter with the underworld and recall Dante's Inferno. A symbolism that both reflects a (post-)pandemic unease and hints at the encounter of reality and illusion. Eerie and fascinating at the same time, the paintings outline a space marked by the collapse of a shared perception. In addition to studio insights and paintings, the volume includes an elucidating text by art historian Thomas Elsen as well as a conversation between Eder, Damien Hirst and Tim Marlow, director of London's Design Museum.

Born in Augsburg, MARTIN EDER (*1968) studied under Eberhard Bosslet at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts. His work has been exhibited internationally at Konsthal Rotterdam, ARKEN Museum of Modern Art in Copenhagen, Hirst s Newport Street Gallery in London und MUDAM Luxembourg, among others, and is part of the collections of the Museum of Modern Art New York + California as well as the Deutsche Bank Collection. He lives and works in Berlin.