Uta Eisenreich, a visual artist based in Amsterdam, works at the crossroads of photography, performance, and philosophy. Arranging everyday objects in front of the unblinking eye of her camera, she creates playful tableaux that invite viewers into a peculiar game of logic, language, and meaning — ultimately challenging us to rethink our ways of relating to the world.

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Short bio

Uta Eisenreich is a visual artist based in Amsterdam.

Born in West Germany in the 70s into a family of teachers, a forgetful Mathematician, an erratic elementary school teacher with an obsession for order,

she explored her interests in theatre and photography in the 80s to start studying philosophy in Frankfurt a.M. in the 90s.

In 2000 she graduated from Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam, showing humorous photographic works that conflate these interests and reveal and ridicule the hidden rules and structures of order.

Since then, she has developed an oeuvre arranging enigmatic object combinations in front of the unblinking eye of her camera.

Triggering the viewer’s impulse to construct meaning, her images explore the poetic and humorous space between the sign and its meaning.

Next to the image, language plays a key role.

Ultimately, her images question our means to relate to the world, our way to perceive, understand, misunderstand, represent.

She published on issues of analogy and representation with Roma Publications:

A not B (2010) and As If (2021) both books are made in collaboration with graphic designer Julia Born.

Also, she has shown work in exhibitions and on stages internationally.

Uta Eisenreich is represented by Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam, and teaches at Gerrit Rietveld Academy.

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