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Photography by Heungman, Shanghai - New York City © 1999

Born 1975 in Karlsruhe Germany, Eva Moll started her art education at age thirteen attending sketching and life drawing classes with Michael Siegel at the "Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Städelschule" in Frankfurt/ Main. In 1990 she had her first exhibition at the community center in her hometown Dietzenbach. 1991 she donated her first work for a charity project to benefit war children of Bosnia. 1992 she went to an expedition of the documenta IX in Kassel with her art major class. Her early works was laden with symbols from different cultures and faiths, abstract profile faces, figures, symbols and ornaments. Eva's early influences drew on tribal themes, Art Nouveau and Bauhaus. At age nineteen - after graduating with an "Abitur" (German secondary school University-entrance diploma) from the Rudolf-Koch-Schule in Offenbach - Eva left her hometown to study old master oil techniques with the restorer and church-painter Manfred Scharpf in Leutkirch for one year. 1995 to 2000 Moll completed her studies in Visual Communication and Fine Arts at the Kunsthochschule Kassel in Germany. During her studies her focus was on the graphic arts such as free drawing, fine art print making as well as painting, room installation, experimental video, digital art and photography. For the global project "The ornamental Symbol (1996 – 1998)" the art student traveled throughout Europe, Africa, Asia and America to explore old & new art media and techniques, possibilities and enviroments. In 1998 she began the black and white line-art urban project "Eva in the Big Apple (1998-2000)", a collective of works portraying her experiences in New York including the Artist Book "Urbanism 2000" with personal draws of the year 1999. Originally planned to be a 3-month visual diary and artist book project, it evolved to the creation of extensive room installation works of black ink drawings on objects, paper and large scale canvas. In 1999 3M sponsored Moll to paint a Jaguar for the Art-Automobile Expo in Cologne. In 2000 she graduated from art school with honors in Visual Communication (MA), Prof. Walter Rabe and Prof. Paul Driessen. Upon locating to New York in 2000 Moll continued with the ongoing evolution of her ever present alter ego "Eve" and works inspired by New York City life. She combinded reduced versions of her ornamental black and white line drawings of the 90's with stylistic characteristics of American Pop Art. The same time Moll started working fulltime as an artist assistant to Pop-Artist Peter Max for the duration of 2 years. In 2002 she launched the Eva Moll Art Studio. Travels - to Miami, Los Angeles, Big Sir, San Francisco, Portland/Oregon, Seattle - and life in New York inspired her to create a new range of works. With her solo travel exhibitions throughout art and culture spaces of New York City neighborhoods she received critical acclaim, leading to numerous commissioned projects for paintings, murals, graphic art and theatre sets including the NY Metropolitan Youth Orchestra and the Children Museum of New York and the United Nations. In 2004 Moll co-founded the artist group Galaxy Girls NYC leading to exhibitions, happenings and performances at the WCO Biennial Lincoln Center in New York NY, Asterisk Gallery Brooklyn NY and P.S.1. MoMA Contemporary Art Center in Long Island City NY to name a few. Moll's flat, colourful and bold extensive pictorial imagery including Apples, Eve's and New York Cityscapes have been appealing to a wide audience leading to art sales to consumer and collector markets. In 2005 Moll opened make-shift art studio in Germany due to the terminal care of her mother. 2006 and 2007 she traveled throughout European Cities visiting art and culture sights of Athens, Barcelona, Berlin, Budapest, Copenhagen and Luxemburg. Solo exhibitions include "Big Apple - Big Art" at the Art Expo, Jacobs Javits Center in New York (2006), "Eva Moll - Contemporary Pop Art" at the Galerie Bürgerhaus Dietzenbach (2006) and "Bin im Garten" (I'm in the Garden) at the Galerie Kunst Raum Mato in Offenbach (2007). In the room-strategy "Bin im Garten" - in reference to her mother's passing - Moll made a radical break to her Pop-Art works by creating paintings of her mother's garden with stylistic elements of German Expressionism (Emil Nolde), Neo-Expessionism (Georg Baselitz) and abstract paintings by Gerhard Richter. She then arranged the paintings with selected ready-made imagery, "hobby-photography" and objects of her mother's garden and estate in the gallery space. In a performance to a stunned audience Moll took on the role of a tour-guide refering to Moll's mother's life and passing bridging it to terms of gardens and paradies in today's society. Further Group exhibitions with artists of the arts club "Kunst Raum Mato" include "Kunst der Erlösung - Erlösung durch Kunst" at the Galerie Doppel DE in Dresden (2006), "Denk ich an Deutschland..." (If I think of Germany...) at the Galerie Kunst Raum Mato in Offenbach (2007) and at the Kunstfabrik (Art factory) in Darmstadt (2008) as well as "Migrare-Wandern" at the Museum of the City of Offenbach (2007). At the week of the New York Art Fairs in February 2007 Eva Moll and Rainbow Girl realized the Art Happening „Apples and Tipis“ in front of the Armory show, MoMA, Met, Whitney and Guggenheim Museums and an exhibition at Karma Lounge in New York City. The first photo session of the project "All about Eve and the Big Apple" followed at "Rainbow Land" in Tulsa Oklahoma. Back in Europe Moll performed "Eva Apple" in public space including the Museum for Kunst Copenhagen, Documenta 12 Kassel and Art Forum Berlin. Moll also worked as a curator for several exhibitions including "Rainbow Girl - Earthgirl and the Big City" and "Denk ich an Deutschland" at the Galerie Kunst Raum Mato (2007). In 2008 she became patron of the non-profit organisation "American Friends of Germany" based in San Francisco and Berlin. As an Artist/Curator she organized the exhibitions "In Verhandlung" at the Salon 13 in Offenbach, "Summer of Love", "Migu M. Syed - Topografien von Menschenhand" und "Kerstin Lichtblau - Augenmädchen, sing what you see" at the PV Gallery in Frankfurt/Main. In her studio she worked on the photography project "WYND" with Samira Ramic. In fall she was part of the art expedition to Fingano in Toscane/ Italy with artists and friends of the Kunst Raum Mato. Solo Exhibitions include Galerie Goldhahn Germany and Apollo Braun Fashion, Karma Lounge and La Mama Gallery in the Lower Eastside of New York City. In January 2009 her work was exhibited at the Interkulturelle Bühne (Intercultural Stage) in Frankfurt/ Main. In February 2009 Moll started her new exhibition program "Contemporary Interior", based on the concept that brings original art positions to where people experience every day life, namely in public, business and private space focusing cultural activities on Germany and the United States. At the same time she briefly worked in art production at the art studio of Tobias Rehberger in Frankfurt/Main. More projects include "MatoLiebt" and "Schrankstipendium | Internationaler Kunstpreis - International Art Award" at the Kunst Raum Mato in Offenbach: Cultural activities that deal with every day life matters of contemporary local, urban, international and global artists. After a visit to Art Basel in June, Moll started to work as part of the "Sommer Atelier 2009" at the Kunstverein Familie Montez in Frankfurt/Main. An eight week open artist in residence program initiated by Mirek Macke. On location she was part of two staged photography projects, collaborated on one video project and presented herself with one wall-drawing, several performances and changing installation works made out of ready-made images and objects as well as her works on canvas and paper. Cultural activities and shows in 2010 include "V_Kunst" at the Galerie Wagner + Marks in Frankfurt, "ARTEON in motion" at La Mama Gallery & Theatre, Bowery Poetry Club in New York City as well as "Stadt Zirkus" at the Kunstverein Familie Montez, "Gallus Calling" in Frankfurt and ARTEON Berlin. 2011 she performed "EVE II – Painting the town" during the Armory Show Week 2011, "EVE IV" at the opening of an exhibition at Kunstvereinfamilie Montez Frankfurt, "Call for Artists! Schrankstipendium" Baumwollspinnerei Leipzig and "What's Happening?" at the "Akademie für interdisziplinäre Prozesse" (academy of interdisciplinary processes), where Moll holds chair in "contemporary art | all media" exploring, researching and teaching her master class, performance-lectures and performance-happenings. In January 2012 "EVE – Splashing Balloons Every Day!" at a "Times Square Sunday Art Walk" with Galaxy Girls NYC & Friends. The Jurymembers of the art project "Schrankstipendium" including Eva Moll recieved an art award 2012, by the"maecenia frankfurt - foundation for woman in science and arts". She holds chair in "contemporary art - all media" (exploration, research & teachings) at the private academy of interdisciplinary processes in Offenbach. In June she performed at the opening day of the dOCUMENTA (13) in Kassel. Her artwork is represented by the New Yorker Artist/Curator Uta Brauser owner of the Fish with Braids Gallery with Pop Up Shows in the New York Metropolitan Area.