born in Dublin, in 1971. She lives and works in London.
Predominantly sculptural, yet highly conceptual, eva Rothschild’s work is rendered in a varied range of materials including aluminium, jesmonite, leather, wood, tiles and paper. Her work references art movements of the 1960s and 1970s, and is also informed by the aesthetics of protest and spirituality.
eva Rothschild is concerned with the physical experience of sculpture and our relationship with objects and ways of looking. She has a materials based studio practice but also works on major public and outdoor commissions.
eva Rothschild’s work has been the subject of institutional solo exhibitions including Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (2018), Dublin City Gallery, the Hugh Lane (2014), Nasher Sculpture Center (2012), The Hepworth Wakefield (2011), South London Gallery (2007), and Kunsthalle Zürich (2004). In 2009 she was awarded the Tate Britain annual Duveens’ Commission, for which she produced Cold Corners, a vast rambling geometric sculpture that occupied the length of the neo-classical galleries. In 2019, she represented Ireland at the 58th Venice Biennale.
eva rothschild’s work is in many permanent collections, including those of Aïshti Foundation, Antelias; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; Dallas Museum of Art; Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; Israel Museum, Jerusalem; MOMA, New York; Sammlung Goetz, Munich; Tate, London; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis.
shows at kaufmann repetto
Eva Rothschild (b.1972 dublin) Lives and works in London.
Selected solo exhibitions
2025
still lives, hepworth wakefield, wakefield
irish art now, embassy of ireland, London
2024
Familiars, Encounter, Smithson Plaza, London
Modern Art, London
2023
Arms Folded and Unfolded, 303 Gallery, New York
2022
Our Life, Our Sweetness and Our Hope, Modern Art, London
2021
the shrinking universe, void, derry, Northern Ireland
Peak Times, The Modern Institute, Glasgow
2020
The Shrinking Universe, Visual, Carlow, Ireland
2019
Irish Pavillion, 58th Venice Biennale, Venice
Eva rothschild: kosmos, City Gallery Wellington, wellington
2018
Kosmos, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne
2017
kaufmann repetto, milano
2016
Alternative to Power, The New Art Gallery, Walsall
The Gated Community, Sonneveld House, Rotterdam
2015
Setup, produced by fig-2 and Block Universe at ICA Studio and ICA Theatre (with Joe Moran)
Middle Temple, kaufmann repetto, Milan
2014
Eva Rothschild, Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin
What The Eye Wants, Modern Art, London
2013
Narcissus, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich
This and this and this, outdoor project, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich
2012
Childrens Art Commission: Eva Rothschild: Boys and Sculpture, Whitechapel Gallery, London
Sightings, The Nasher Sculpture Centre, Dallas
The Modern Institute, Glasgow
The Paradise [38],The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin
2011
Hot Touch, Kunstverein Hannover, Hannover
303 Gallery, New York
Public Art Fund Project, New York
Hepworth Wakefield, Wakefield, England
2009
La Conservera, Murcia, Spain
Eva Presenhuber, Zurich
Cold Corners, Tate Britain Duveens Commission, Tate Britain, London
francesca kaufmann, Milan
2008
Tate Britain, Millbank, London
Modern Institute, Glasgow
2007
South London Gallery, London
303 Gallery, New York
2006
Living Spring, Eva Presenhuber, Zurich
2005
Art Basel 36 with the Modern Institute, Glasgow
Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin
2004
Kunsthalle, Zurich
2003
The Modern Institute, Glasgow
francesca kaufmann, Milan
2002
Whitechapel Gallery, London
Project Art Centre, Dublin
Modern Art Inc., London
2001
Arnolfini trouble shooting, Bristol
Els Hanappe, Underground, Athens
Cornerhouse, Manchester / The Showroom, London
francesca kaufmann, Milan
1999
The Modern Institute, Glasgow
1998
Titanik Galerie, Turku, Finland
1997
Great Wall/Black Hole, Iain Irving projects Aberdeenshire, Aberdeenshire
1996
Center for Contemporary Art, Glasgow
1995
Bercsenyi Gallery, Budapest
Selected group exhibitions
2025
Modern Love, Palas, Sydney
All Flowers in Time Bend Towards the Sun, Coach House Gallery, Dublin
A World of Water, Sainsbury Centre of Visual Art, Norwich
2024
Redux: Contemporary Irish sculptors at Venice, IMMA, Dublin
303 GALLERY: 40 YEARS, 303, New York
2023
Crossing the river by feeling the collectors, David Chau’s collection, curated by Xu Zhen, Cc Foundation, Shanghai
The Milton and Sheila Fine Collection, Carnegie Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh
Visitante Ocasional, Centro de Arte Contemporânea de Coimbra, Coimbra
Paris, Modern Art, Paris
2022
In Plain Sight, Wellcome Collection, London
Keep On Moving, Fondazione Morrangreco, Napoli
Pigeon Park 2, 33 Manor Place, London
STATUS need a world interlude, The Modern Institute
On Jupiter, Olin Hall Galleries, Roanoke College, Salem
2021 Spirit of Kindergarten, Kasteel Wijlre estate, Wijlre
Sculpture in the City 10th Edition, London
Sculptors at Work, F.E. McWilliam Gallery & Studio, Banbridge
The Line, Bow Creek, London
2020 Breaking the Mould: Sculpture by Women since 1945, An Arts Council Collection Touring Exhibition, Longside Gallery, Yorkshire Sculpture Park
Vent’anni – Twenty Years, 20th anniversary exhibition, kaufmann repetto, Milan
2019
Irish Pavillion, 58th Venice Biennale, Venice
objects of wonder, palaispopulaire, berlin, curated by elena crippa and daniel slater
2018
Shadowed Forms, Andersen’s Contemporary, Copenhagen, Denmark, curated by Kevin Francis Gray
2017
The Oslo Museum of Contemporary Art, Kunsthall Oslo, Oslo
An Eyeful of Wry, Brynmor Jones Library gallery, University of Hull, Hull
31 Women, Breeselittle, London
2016
Royal Academy of Arts – Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London
IMMA Collection: A Decade, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, curated by Christina Kennedy
2015
Lustwarande ‘15 – Rapture & Pain– Fundament Foundation, park De Oude Warande, Tilburg, The Netherlands
Art as a Verb, ArtSpace, Sydney
The Grass is Singing, Mendes Wood DM, Sao Paulo
Works on paper, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich
Vibrant Matter, KIOSK, Ghent
2014
QUIZ, Poirel Galleries, Nancy, curated by Robert Stadler
You Imagine What You Desire, 19th Biennale of Sydney, Sydney
We are living on a star, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Oslo
2013
A Conspiracy of Detail, Mackintosh Museum, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow
Eva Rothschild and Clare Woods, New Art Centre, Roche Court, United Kingdom
2011
Making is Thinking,Witte de With, Rotterdam
Kompass: Zeichnungen aus dem museum of modern art New York,Martin Gropius-Bau, Berlin
Sculpture Now, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich
We Regret To Inform You There Is Currently No Space Or Place For Abstract Painting, Martos Gallery, New York
Making is Thinking, Witte de With, Rotterdam
2010
Highlights form the collection,The Goss-Michael Foundation, Dallas
Big new Field,Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas
Undone: Making and Unmaking in Contemporary sculpture,Henry Moore Institute, Leeds
The Dark Monarch,Towner Contemporary Art Museum, Eastbourne
2009
The Dark Monarch: Magic and Modernity in Britsh Art,Tate St. Ives, St. Ives, England
Bhart Kher, Yayoi Kusama, Eva Rothschild and Mindy Shapiro,Marianne Boesky, New York
Valentin Carron, FOD, Manu Muniategiandikoetxea, Eva Rothschild and Gert & Uwe Tobias, La Conserva, Ceutì, Spain
2008
Sphinxx, Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London, curated by Alexis Vaillant
A Life of Their Own, Lismore Castle, Lismore, Co. Waterford, Ireland, curated by Richard Cork
2007
Un-monumental: Falling to Pieces in the 21st Century, The New Museum, New York curated by Richard Flood and Laura Hoptman and Massimiliano Gioni
2006
How to Build a Universe That Doesn’t, CCA Wattis Instituite for Contemporary Art, San Francisco
New British ArtTate Triennial, Tate Britain, London
Sixty Years of Sculpture in the Arts CouncilCollection, Yorkshire Sculpture Park – YSP, Wakefield
2005
British Art Show6, BALTIC The Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead
2004
54th Carnegie International, Pittsburgh
2003
Primary Colours, The City Gallery, Leicester
3D, Frederich Petzel Gallery, New York
The walls Have Eyes, Modern Art Inc, London
Playschool, Galleri Christina Wilson, Copenhagen
This was Tomorrow, The New Art Centre Sculpture Park & Gallery, Salisbury
Object in mirror are closer than they appear, with Jim Lambie and Remy Jugerman, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe
Breathing the Water, Galerie Hauser+Wirth+Presenburger, Zurich
Someone to WatchOver Me, Smart Space, Amsterdam
2002
Electric Dreams, The Barbican, London
Early one Morning, Whitechapel Gallery, London
Tailflading, British Council Touring Exhibition
My Head is on Fire but my Heart is full of Love,Charlottenberg, Copenhagen
2001
Prodigal Prodigy, White Box, New York
Tattoo Show,Modern Art, London
Tailsliding, British Council Touring Show
All That Is Solid… , London Print Studio, London
Kalam to Computer‚ Crafts Museum, New Delhi
Troubleshooting, Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol
Swenglish, IASPIS, London
Silhouettes and Cut-outs, Lenbachaus, Munich
The seat with the clearest view…, Grey Matter, Sydney
Brown,The Approach, London
Circles° 4 ZKM, Karlsruhe
2000
Perfidy, Kettles Yard, Cambridge/ Convent of La Tourette, Eveux
Pavillion Mark Muller Gallery, Zurich
Hard Candy, Gallery Wieland, Berlin
Proper, Center for contemporary art, Vilnius, Lithuania
Comes the Spirit…, Jerwood Space, London
Tonight, The Modern Institute, Glasgow
Dream Machines, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee
1999
High Red Center, CCA, Glasgow
Palace, Glassbox, Paris
Utopias, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin
Luftfarer, Riksutstillinger, Norway
1998
Cluster Bomb Morrisson/ Judd, London
Habitat, Center for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne
Seeing Hozoman, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh
How to build a universe…, Fly Gallery, Glasgow
Crystal state, 3 Month Gallery, Liverpool
Excellent Dynamite Palace studios, Dublin
Bed and Workshop, Square Doyen Milou, Rennes
1997
Superstore, Norwich gallery & The Tannery, London
Performance Festival, Gallery Tommy Lund, Odense
Dialogue, W139, Amsterdam
Tutor with an Idea, 3 Month Gallery, Liverpool
Let’s Rock, Alexandra Mansions, Norwich
European Couplet, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow
If it wasn’t for the mist… , Grays School of Art, Aberdeen
1996
World of Ponce, South Park, Glasgow
Singled Out, Catalyst Arts, Belfast
City Limits,Staffordshire University, Stoke on Trent, Staffordshire
Deep Signal, Gasworks, London
Sick Building, Globescope, Copenhagen
Art for People, Transmission Gallery, London
EV + A,Limerick , Ireland*
Into the Void, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
Public and Museum collections
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Tate Gallery, London
Carnegie Museum Collection, Pittsburgh
Arts Council Collection, London
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
Ebrahim Melamed/Honart Museum, Tehran
T-B A21 – Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Wien
MORA-ART Foundation, San Antonio, TX
Education
1997-99
MFA Goldsmiths, London
1990-93
BA Hons Fine Art University of Ulster, Belfast
1989-90
National College of Art and Design, Dublin
Awards/ Commissions
2000
Delfina Trust, Studio residency 2000-2002
Camden Arts Center, Artists in residence Sep.-Oct.
1997
PaDT/BAA Heathrow Arts Programme, Belfast Lounge commission
Independent Public Arts/ Stirling Council, “National Flags” project
1996
Scottish Arts Council, Amsterdam Studio residency
Eva Rothschild, 2014
Ridinghouse
Eva Rothschild, 2010
La Conservera
