Eva Koťátková
Inspired by surrealism Eva Koťátková’s distinctive artistic vocabulary unites sculpture, text and performance. As metaphor of modern civilization her comprehensive work illustrates dreams, expectations and deals with mutual anxieties mainly experienced by children, elderly people and animals – the so-presumed weak of society to indicate the fragility of the subject facing maintained structures. She further explores the relationship between the private and personal on one hand and the public, authoritarian sphere on the other and their antagonistic relation constantly implying and questioning a sublime institutional critique beneath the surface.
![How many giraffes are in the air we breathe?](https://meyer-riegger.de/media/pages/medialibrary/0ba8631933-1697206046/nc-ek-091-50x.jpg)
![How many giraffes are in the air we breathe?](https://meyer-riegger.de/media/pages/medialibrary/ecde02384a-1697206056/nc-ek-057-50x.jpg)
![How many giraffes are in the air we breathe?](https://meyer-riegger.de/media/pages/medialibrary/ebb18b4c17-1697206044/nc-ek-095-50x.jpg)
![How many giraffes are in the air we breathe?](https://meyer-riegger.de/media/pages/medialibrary/33e611fc80-1697206057/nc-ek-074-50x.jpg)
![My Body Is Not An Island](https://meyer-riegger.de/media/pages/medialibrary/bcb81fa7bd-1692440673/kotatkova-ruhrtriennale-5-50x.jpg)
![My Body Is Not An Island](https://meyer-riegger.de/media/pages/medialibrary/3f5c9852d8-1692440648/kotatkova-ruhrtriennale-15-50x.jpg)
![My Body Is Not An Island](https://meyer-riegger.de/media/pages/medialibrary/b80d414504-1692440728/kotatkova-ruhrtriennale-7-50x.jpg)
![My Body Is Not An Island](https://meyer-riegger.de/media/pages/medialibrary/bef229c2ff-1692440792/kotatkova-ruhrtriennale-10-50x.jpg)
![My Body Is Not An Island](https://meyer-riegger.de/media/pages/medialibrary/8641a4cff4-1692440686/kotatkova-ruhrtriennale-1-50x.jpg)
![I Sometimes Imagine I’m a Fish with Legs](https://meyer-riegger.de/media/pages/medialibrary/1a1f0e6520-1685968477/1-arter-eva-kotatkova-bir-balikmisim-bacaklari-olan-i-sometimes-imagine-im-a-fish-with-legs-flu7651-edit-50x.jpg)
![Night workers](https://meyer-riegger.de/media/pages/medialibrary/01a19e3e97-1685967944/eva-kotatkova-moje-telo-neni-ostrov-narodni-galerie-praha-2022-1-50x.jpg)
![My Body Is Not an Island](https://meyer-riegger.de/media/pages/medialibrary/06dafe40a2-1685967944/eva-kotatkova-moje-telo-neni-ostrov-narodni-galerie-praha-2022-8-50x.jpg)
![from the series Blankets, Monsters, Anna and the World](https://meyer-riegger.de/media/pages/medialibrary/9ade1a3aa1-1651573123/kotat-22-42-50x.jpg)
![Monster 2 (for Dreaming)](https://meyer-riegger.de/media/pages/medialibrary/a4b9ac4dd1-1651573187/kotat-22-46a-50x.jpg)
![Daydreaming Workstation](https://meyer-riegger.de/media/pages/medialibrary/327a014ae1-1659004916/off-biennale-budapest-eva-kotatkova-kassel-2022-018-50x.jpg)
![Daydreaming Workstation](https://meyer-riegger.de/media/pages/medialibrary/869f04b08a-1659005188/off-biennale-budapest-eva-kotatkova-kassel-2022-023-50x.jpg)
![Error](https://meyer-riegger.de/media/pages/medialibrary/b081ce2d00-1659002838/kunsthalcharlottenborg-evakotatkova-09-50x.jpg)
![Interviews with the Monster](https://meyer-riegger.de/media/pages/medialibrary/996c077177-1618674322/meetfactory-evakotatkova-01-50x.jpg)
![Interviews with the Monster](https://meyer-riegger.de/media/pages/medialibrary/8b6f23f737-1618674505/meetfactory-evakotatkova-03-50x.jpg)
![Interviews with the Monster](https://meyer-riegger.de/media/pages/medialibrary/4fc9266d4b-1618674781/meetfactory-evakotatkova-07-50x.jpg)
![The Machine for Restoring Empathy (detail)](https://meyer-riegger.de/media/pages/medialibrary/967d78b70e-1659003195/eva-kotatkova-the-machine-for-restoring-empathy-detail-installation-view-stuk-photo-kristof-vrancken-50x.jpg)
![In the body of a fish out of water](https://meyer-riegger.de/media/pages/medialibrary/e7bb0dab7e-1659003400/installation-view-eva-kot-atkova-kestner-gesellschaft-2019-2020-10-50x.jpg)
![Confessions of a Piping System](https://meyer-riegger.de/media/pages/medialibrary/890a6e3c50-1618846361/kunsthalcharlottenborg-evakotatkova-01-50x.jpg)
![Confessions of a Piping System](https://meyer-riegger.de/media/pages/medialibrary/5b1b4d81fe-1618846360/kunsthalcharlottenborg-evakotatkova-04-50x.jpg)
![Room for Restoring Empathy](https://meyer-riegger.de/media/pages/medialibrary/5d953a56d3-1618846362/kunsthalcharlottenborg-evakotatkova-14-50x.jpg)
![The Dream Machine is Asleep](https://meyer-riegger.de/media/pages/medialibrary/c38cf6dc50-1618846360/kunsthalcharlottenborg-evakotatkova-16-50x.jpg)
![Interviews with the Monster](https://meyer-riegger.de/media/pages/medialibrary/78c805c7f2-1618846362/kunsthalcharlottenborg-evakotatkova-17-50x.jpg)
![from the series Me and others, me from parts](https://meyer-riegger.de/media/pages/medialibrary/0692a96f2a-1618912518/kotat-20-02-20-50x.jpg)
![from the series Me and others, me from parts](https://meyer-riegger.de/media/pages/medialibrary/d1925f741c-1618912592/kotat-20-02-34-50x.jpg)
![The Machine for Restorating Empathy](https://meyer-riegger.de/media/pages/medialibrary/8d9faec487-1618845860/istanbulbiennial-evakotatkova-01-50x.jpg)
![The Machine for Restorating Empathy](https://meyer-riegger.de/media/pages/medialibrary/421b8de0b1-1618845859/istanbulbiennial-evakotatkova-11-50x.jpg)
![from the series Unlearning instinct](https://meyer-riegger.de/media/pages/medialibrary/590260e510-1618911124/kotat-19-05-16-50x.jpg)
![from the series Unlearning instinct](https://meyer-riegger.de/media/pages/medialibrary/f8a8d668d8-1618912367/kotat-19-05-06-50x.jpg)
![from the series The Dream machine is asleep](https://meyer-riegger.de/media/pages/medialibrary/28b15785de-1618911125/kotat-18-21-gesamt-50x.jpg)
![Stomach of the World](https://meyer-riegger.de/media/pages/medialibrary/eea0e27ded-1618845041/stomachoftheworld-evakotatkova-02-50x.jpg)
![Stomach of the World](https://meyer-riegger.de/media/pages/medialibrary/d0038d340c-1618845041/stomachoftheworld-evakotatkova-03-50x.jpg)
![Stomach of the World](https://meyer-riegger.de/media/pages/medialibrary/5cc175efd2-1618845045/stomachoftheworld-evakotatkova-01-50x.jpg)
![The Dream Machine is Asleep](https://meyer-riegger.de/media/pages/medialibrary/9c0f7485ca-1618845044/stomachoftheworld-evakotatkova-04-50x.jpg)
![Diary no.3 (I-Machine)](https://meyer-riegger.de/media/pages/medialibrary/82190eaa8a-1618845045/kotat-18-12-50x.jpg)
![Stomach of the World](https://meyer-riegger.de/media/pages/medialibrary/17bf0bbed3-1618845046/kotat-18-15-50x.jpg)
![Diary no.2 (I-Animal)](https://meyer-riegger.de/media/pages/medialibrary/0fad9a453d-1618845046/kotat-18-11a-50x.jpg)
![Diary no.2 (I-Animal)](https://meyer-riegger.de/media/pages/medialibrary/5f80fbabee-1618845047/kotat-18-11b-50x.jpg)
![Stomach of the World](https://meyer-riegger.de/media/pages/medialibrary/a38db5cf0b-1618845041/stomachoftheworld-evakotatkova-film-01-50x.jpg)
![Stomach of the World](https://meyer-riegger.de/media/pages/medialibrary/9f3f909e1e-1618845041/stomachoftheworld-evakotatkova-film-03-50x.jpg)
![Stomach of the World](https://meyer-riegger.de/media/pages/medialibrary/9a52aec6b1-1618845042/stomachoftheworld-evakotatkova-film-04-50x.jpg)
![Büro für Augen, Nase, Zunge, Mund, Herz, Hand und Maske (die alles überdeckt)](https://meyer-riegger.de/media/pages/medialibrary/1b3250a081-1618844883/kotat-17-56-50x.jpg)
![Diary of a stomach](https://meyer-riegger.de/media/pages/medialibrary/a9327c6bb8-1616096473/kotat-17-09a-50x.jpg)
![Diary of a stomach](https://meyer-riegger.de/media/pages/medialibrary/b409a19d04-1616096016/from-the-diary-of-a-stomach-04-50x.jpg)
![Diary of a stomach](https://meyer-riegger.de/media/pages/medialibrary/5833f49554-1616096011/from-the-diary-of-a-stomach-07-50x.jpg)
![Justizmord des Jakob Mohr](https://meyer-riegger.de/media/pages/medialibrary/937c64c3cc-1618843395/heidelberg-evakotatkova-01-50x.jpg)
![Justizmord des Jakob Mohr](https://meyer-riegger.de/media/pages/medialibrary/0a7a78b2e0-1618843394/heidelberg-evakotatkova-02-50x.jpg)
![Cutting the Puppeteer’s Strings with Paper Teeth (Brief History of Daydreaming and String Control)](https://meyer-riegger.de/media/pages/medialibrary/1f0bfed90b-1618843281/kotat-16-15b-50x.jpg)
![Becoming a bird or a cage (depending on the occasion)](https://meyer-riegger.de/media/pages/medialibrary/8bf8bff676-1618847233/kotat-17-12a-50x.jpg)
![Theatre for 6 hands, For a hand which is temporarily handicapped](https://meyer-riegger.de/media/pages/medialibrary/1b519c2429-1618911125/kotat-16-45-50x.jpg)
![Cutting the Puppeteer’s Strings with Paper Teeth (Brief History of Daydreaming and String Control)](https://meyer-riegger.de/media/pages/medialibrary/d30e9df83f-1618842971/cuttingthepuppeteers-evakotatkova-01-50x.jpg)
![Cutting the Puppeteer’s Strings with Paper Teeth (Brief History of Daydreaming and String Control)](https://meyer-riegger.de/media/pages/medialibrary/72e85118a8-1618842981/cuttingthepuppeteers-evakotatkova-02-50x.jpg)
![Cutting the Puppeteer’s Strings with Paper Teeth (Brief History of Daydreaming and String Control)](https://meyer-riegger.de/media/pages/medialibrary/1967654549-1618842980/cuttingthepuppeteers-evakotatkova-04-50x.jpg)
![Aleš's devices to measure the world](https://meyer-riegger.de/media/pages/medialibrary/cfa1fd4d3b-1618911124/kotat-16-07-50x.jpg)
![Training in Ambidexterity](https://meyer-riegger.de/media/pages/medialibrary/5aa3f120b7-1618911124/kotat-15-85-50x.jpg)
![from the series Collection of suppressed voices](https://meyer-riegger.de/media/pages/medialibrary/713a9c4fe9-1618911064/kotat-15-80-50x.jpg)
![Emil](https://meyer-riegger.de/media/pages/medialibrary/06e9150541-1618911002/kotat-15-20-50x.jpg)
![Theatre of speaking objects](https://meyer-riegger.de/media/pages/medialibrary/ff6e9798d1-1618910855/kotat-14-17-50x.jpg)
![Theatre of speaking objects](https://meyer-riegger.de/media/pages/medialibrary/5b442465d2-1618910898/kotat-14-22-50x.jpg)
![Anatomical Orchestra](https://meyer-riegger.de/media/pages/medialibrary/5502e68b9e-1618842760/schinkelpavillon-evakotatkova-01-50x.jpg)
![Anatomical Orchestra](https://meyer-riegger.de/media/pages/medialibrary/8ebeb7220d-1618842764/schinkelpavillon-evakotatkova-04-50x.jpg)
![Anatomical Orchestra](https://meyer-riegger.de/media/pages/medialibrary/193b1c0557-1618842764/schinkelpavillon-evakotatkova-05-50x.jpg)
![Untitled (Theatre of speaking objects)](https://meyer-riegger.de/media/pages/medialibrary/eb63269b10-1618910663/kotat-12-110-50x.jpg)
![Not how people move, but what moves them](https://meyer-riegger.de/media/pages/medialibrary/067ec2ed28-1618910723/kotat-13-30-50x.jpg)
![Untitled](https://meyer-riegger.de/media/pages/medialibrary/92820fa241-1618910609/kotat-11-22-50x.jpg)
![Fragmented Body 1 (installation for a performance)](https://meyer-riegger.de/media/pages/medialibrary/62f30cda5c-1616153989/they-are-coming-05-50x.jpg)
![Fragmented Body 1 (installation for a performance)](https://meyer-riegger.de/media/pages/medialibrary/970db0df88-1616153983/they-are-coming-07-50x.jpg)
![Educational Model](https://meyer-riegger.de/media/pages/medialibrary/9d58ffac3c-1618842583/kv-diepenheim-evakotatkova-03-50x.jpg)
![untitled](https://meyer-riegger.de/media/pages/medialibrary/c493d0e62d-1618910551/kotat-10-245-50x.jpg)
![Educational Model](https://meyer-riegger.de/media/pages/medialibrary/67ed6ebe01-1618842605/kv-diepenheim-evakotatkova-06-50x.jpg)
![Educational Model](https://meyer-riegger.de/media/pages/medialibrary/8aec260d54-1618842606/kv-diepenheim-evakotatkova-07-50x.jpg)
![House Arrest No. 4](https://meyer-riegger.de/media/pages/medialibrary/a4b7c044bf-1618847233/kotat-09-05-50x.jpg)
![House Arrest No. 4](https://meyer-riegger.de/media/pages/medialibrary/f9351c85e5-1618847227/kotat-09-05b-50x.png)
![House Arrest no.1](https://meyer-riegger.de/media/pages/medialibrary/96aaaaee02-1618910486/kotat-09-08b-50x.jpg)
![House Arrest (Detail)](https://meyer-riegger.de/media/pages/medialibrary/ec4a6358a2-1618847227/eva-kotatkova2009-50x.jpg)
![Drinking](https://meyer-riegger.de/media/pages/medialibrary/0d35a0a47d-1618842346/drinking-2008-50x.jpg)
![Behind between over and under in (the room)](https://meyer-riegger.de/media/pages/medialibrary/20cb33e42d-1618910432/kotat-07-11-50x.jpg)
![Behind Between Over Under In (The Room)](https://meyer-riegger.de/media/pages/medialibrary/e98faa8320-1618842346/behind-between-over-under-in-the-room-01-50x.jpg)
![Behind Between Over Under In (The Room)](https://meyer-riegger.de/media/pages/medialibrary/bebbc2c07f-1618842346/behind-between-over-under-in-the-room-03-50x.jpg)
![Behind Between Over Under In (The Room)](https://meyer-riegger.de/media/pages/medialibrary/d6fb3c65f8-1618842346/behind-between-over-under-in-the-room-02-50x.jpg)
![Alphabet](https://meyer-riegger.de/media/pages/medialibrary/d33e1d310c-1618910379/kotat-04-03-50x.jpg)
Eva Koťátková