Anyone who met EVA & ADELE and felt confident enough to speak to them would hear them say, always with a smile: ‘We come from the future.’ The inseparable artist duo EVA & ADELE dissolved the boundaries between life and art, identity and performance, past and future with their public appearances, which were always planned down to the smallest detail of clothing and jewellery. Every single performance was part of an ongoing art project that began in 1991. EVA passed away on 21 May 2025 in Berlin-Charlottenburg. The Instagram post on their joint profile reads: “EVA went back to the future today. She has left this world and entered the eternal stage. Her belief in the power of art was infinite. FUTURING”
Since their first joint performance in 1991 at the Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin, where they presented themselves as a same-sex couple in white wedding dresses under the title HOCHZEIT METROPOLIS, EVA & ADELE have seen themselves as a walking Gesamtkunstwerk. This is also where they used their word invention FUTURING for the first time, namely in the form of a stamp. The word was to become a key concept for their entire oeuvre, appearing again and again in their works, exhibitions and accompanying texts. EVA & ADELE’s appearance – shaved head, identically dressed in extravagant, often pink-coloured women’s costumes, expressively made up – was not only a permanent performative project, but also …
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Fig. above: at EVA (right) & ADELE (left) in Charlottenburg, © ART at Berlin + DEEDS.NEWS