Entransito 2026 Terminal de ferries
Perception and reality in transit
LINKS:
www.egleotto.com
For “En Tránsito,” Eglė Otto presents a constellation of works — “Fortunas Reise,” “Abendliche Akkumulation,” “Jeanne d’Arc II,” as well as “Fortuna auf Kur I” and “II” — in which identity does not appear as fixed, but as something set in motion. Her works draw on motifs from mythology, religion, and art history, yet translate them into contemporary, open constellations. In the Petersburg-style hanging, proximities emerge between figure, fragment, and projection that do not offer a linear narrative, but instead make perception itself tangible as a state of transition.
Eglė Otto is relevant to “En Tránsito” because her works do not narrate transition in a documentary way, but render it palpable as a shift between image, body, and meaning — precisely where perception and reality become unstable.
Eglė Otto is a German-Lithuanian artist living and working in Berlin and Hamburg. After studying at the University of Fine Arts Hamburg, she completed her diploma in painting in 2010 under Prof. Werner Büttner and Prof. Anselm Reyle.
Her work has been presented in numerous solo and group exhibitions nationally and internationally. In 2028, the Paula Modersohn-Becker Museum will present Otto’s first museum exhibition in Germany. In 2024, she was awarded the Goldrausch Artists’ Project in Berlin.
Alongside her exhibition practice, Otto is actively engaged in teaching and critical discourse and held a teaching position at the University of the Arts Berlin in 2025. She has also given lectures at national and international professional institutions.
In her artistic practice, Otto understands painting as a contemporary space for thinking and experience, in which art-historical narratives, authorship, and corporeality are renegotiated. Her works draw on figures, motifs, and visual traditions from myth, religion, and art history, translating them into contemporary constellations. Rather than producing closed representations, she focuses on the conditions under which images, bodies, and meanings come into being.
In Otto’s work, motherhood, authorship, and artistic production do not function as isolated themes, but as interwoven practices through which art-historical categories and the canon itself are subjected to renewed inquiry.
Curriculum Vitae
Eglė Otto ist eine deutsch-litauische K.nstlerin. Sie lebt und arbeitet in Berlin.
K.nstlerinnenf.rderung
2024 Goldrausch K.nstlerinnenprojekt, Berlin
Ausbildung
2010 Diplom f.r Freie Kunst an der Hochschule f.r bildende K.nste (HFBK) in Hamburg
bei Prof. Werner B.ttner und Prof. Anselm Reyle
Einzelausstellungen
2028 Paula Modersohn-Becker Museum, Bremen, kuratiert von Esenija Bannan
2026 Sechster Tag der Zellteilung, Offener Raum, Berlin, kuratiert von Johanna Petersen
2023 Verr.umte Dekonstruktion: Neue Legenden, Melike Bilir Galerie, Hamburg
2021 Eglė Otto signiert ihre Kinder, Mathias G.ntner Galerie, Berlin
2019 lex mihi ars, O&O Depopt Galerie, Berlin
2018 vom leeren ins undichte, Mirko Mayer Galerie, K.ln
this is not what Adorno was trying to say, Mathias G.ntner Galerie, Hamburg
2014 Entgrenzte Bildr.ume, monarc, Hamburg
2013 Existenz von Wirklichkeiten, Collection Budersand, Sylt
Ge.nderte Dialektik, Kunstforum Markert, Hamburg
2012 Malerei 2.0, Kunstraum Poststra§e 20, Hamburg
2011 Malerei 1.0, Kunstraum 71, Hamburg
Gruppenausstellungen (Auswahl)
2026 EnTr.nsito: Wahrnehmung und Wirklichkeit auf Durchreise, Sant Antoni de Portmany, Ibiza
Evolving ‹ Berlin meets Tokyo, Kunstraum Kreuzberg / Bethanien, Berlin
Blickwechsel, Duo-Ausstellung mit Alex Feuerstein, Galerie Burster, Berlin
2025 Reveries Of A Solitary Muse, Haverkampf Leistenschneider Galerie, Berlin
2024 I Only Work With Lost And Found, Kunstraum Kreuzberg / Bethanien, Berlin
Gestural Reßective and Inquiring Tales, Drawing Projects UK, Dundee, Scotland
G.R.I.T., a painting exhibition bridging Europe, Kunstpunkt, Berlin
Sunrise, Pop-up Show, VOLK, Berlin
2023 Shaped by Time, The Space, Hamburg
We are Present, Kunstraum Brunnenstra§e 22, Berlin
380-780 nanometer extraklasse, Neues Schloss Herrenchiemsee, Chiemsee
Episode I, BrowningÕs Art Club, Berlin
Alptraum, Polarraum, Hamburg
2022 Anonyme Kunst, Kunstverein Familie Montez, Frankfurt am Main
100 unter 1000, Schindler Art Lab, Potsdam
I hought I was an Alien, Polarraum, Hamburg
2021 Tolle. Frauen. Malerei., Schindler Art Lab, Potsdam
2020 super charged,Tacheles Kunsthaus Berlin
2019 Aufbrechen, Barlach Halle K, Hamburg
bOObs goes Hamburg, Raum linksrechts, Hamburg
Kunst gegen Rechts, Uferhallen Berlin
Kunst gegen Rechts, Werkraum Erfurt
2018 masterpieces / personalities, Mirko Mayer Galerie, K.ln
The Female Gaze on Body, Love and Sex II, Haus am L.tzowplatz, Berlin
The Female Gaze on Body, Love and Sex I, Kunsthaus Erfurt
bOObs – Wir zeigen Brust, Karl Oskar Galerie, Berlin
Looking for Dick, Schau Fenster, Berlin
2017 Kunst gegen Rechts, Kunstraum Botschaft, Uferhallen Berlin
2016 Father Figures Are Hard To Find, nGbK, Berlin
2015 Scheitern, xpon-art, Hamburg
2014 Helden-Vorbilder-Idole, Elektrohaus, Hamburg Malerei, Richter Galerie, L.tjenburg
2013 Velada Remix, Garage, Art-Week Hamburg
2012 Feministische Standortbestimmung, Oel-Fr.h Galerie, Hamburg
2011 Petersburger Salon Nr.2, Blau Raum, Hamburg
2010 Nur die Kunst ist k.nstlich, alles andere ist Theater, Oel-Fr.h Galerie, Hamburg
2009 builder vor boatin, Silvershad Gallery, New York
Fever, Oasis Gallery, Peking
Hunger, LeRoy Neiman Center Gallery, Columbia University, NewYork
Paintings from German Art Schools, FOCI, Miami
2008 Lumen Christies, St. Katharinen, Hamburg
Bibliografie (Auswahl)
2025 Juliane Rohr: ãFeministische und Queere KampfzonenÒ, Kunstforum Band 302, S.109
2024 Utta Raifer: ãHerausragende Kunst von FrauenÒ, Berliner Morgenpost,
Ausgabe 21.09.2024, S.1-3
Brigitte Werneburg: ãDer Fund ist erst der AnfangÒ, taz.de, 06.09.2024
Ferial Nadja Karrasch: ãI only work with lost and foundÒ, art-in-berlin.de, 08.09.2024
ãWill You Be My Valentine Ally?Ó, Katalog, Goldrausch K.nstlerinnenprojekt
2023 Julie B.§ler: ãFarben der ExtraklasseÒ, sueddeutsche.de, 31.08.2023
Magdalena Froner: ãMut zur L.ckeÒ, in: stayinart, Heft, Juni Ausgabe, S. 64-69
2021 Eglė Otto signiert ihre Kinder, Katalog, Mathias G.ntner Galerie
Claus Friede: ãFollow Arts: Texte zu digitalen Welten und analogen Formaten,
Transcultural Studies and Interdisciplinary Literature and Humanities for Sustainable
Societies 5.Ò, Peter Lang Verlag, S. 258-263
Capital, ãWomen in ArtÒ, Beiheft in/pact, September Ausgabe, S. 18-19
2020 Lorena Juan: ãMalerei von Eglė OttoÒ, inpactmedia.com, 01.08.2020
2019 ãlex mihi arsÒ, Katalog, Ortner & Ortner Galerie, Berlin
2018 Laura Storfner: ãUnter die HautÒ, in: weltkunst.de, 22.01.2018
Gabriel Montua: ãBotticelli referenced in the works of contemporary artists to address
issues of gender and global politicsÒ, S. 290-306, ISBN: 9781787354616
Wienerin, ãZeitgeist: Wiener Art CollectionsÒ, Heft, Dezember Ausgabe, S. 24-25
This is not what Adorno was trying to say, Katalog, Mathias G.ntner Galerie
2013 Ge.nderte Dialektik, Katalog, Kunstforum Markert
Lehrauftr.ge / Symposien
2025 Artist Talk mit Sophia Wagner; Im Dialog mit den Alten Meistern, Gem.ldegalerie, Berlin
2024/25 Dozentin, Universit.t der K.nste Berlin (UdK)
2024 Painting Symposium, University of Dundee, Schottland
2022/23 GEKO ‹ Gesellschaft f.r Europa- und Kommunalpolitik, Berlin
2021 ESSM ‹ European Society for Sexual Medicine, Mailand
