EVA & ADELE met in 1989. Shortly after they met, in 1991, the artists decided to create the EVA & ADELE concept, through which they represented themselves publicly: daily performative acts in which life and art mix. The two artists played on sexual difference, claiming they were hermaphrodite twins from the future. Always identically dressed, always surprising and ultra-feminine in their glitter makeup and yet with their heads shaven like men, they took their “EVA & ADELE” work to the widest public, as much in the selective world of art (at exhibition openings) as in the most mundane situations: at the supermarket, in the underground and on the street. Their artwork was not “shut away” in museums and art centres, where the public have to go to see it, nor “reserved” for a minority of initiates, but fitted very naturally into everybody’s everyday life. It is this invention and presentation of themselves that made each EVA & ADELE  appearance a living work of art, quite simply because EVA & ADELE’s life itself had incorporated art.

“Wherever we are is museum,” EVA & ADELE nonchalantly replied to a museum director afraid of having missed an important exhibition opening which, according to him, they were just leaving. This quote since became the artists’ motto.

Published on the occasion of the 1999 exhibition at Neuer Kunstverein Berlin.