Eva Fabregas – Devouring Lovers

Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart, Berlin

Exhibition documentation, 2023

This series documents Eva Fàbregas’s monumental site-specific installation in the historic hall of Hamburger Bahnhof. The commission focuses on the dialogue between her soft, biomorphic sculptures and the industrial iron architecture of the space, tracing how colour, scale and subtle movement transform the museum’s axial hall into an immersive, organic-technical environment for visitors.

Exhibition text by Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart

Eva Fàbregas transforms the historic hall of the Hamburger Bahnhof with a monumental, site-specific installation. The artist's largest solo exhibition to date expands the boundaries of sculpture and invites visitors to a sensual spatial experience. Biomorphic sculptures transform the museum hall's architecture, characterized by industrial iron girders, into an organically grown space.

Eva Fàbregas (born 1988 in Barcelona, ​​lives and works in London and Barcelona) engages with the architecturally designed passageway of the historic hall in her work at Hamburger Bahnhof. The soft, almost corporeal objects characteristic of the artist's work penetrate the space laterally, from the ceiling, and across the steel beams, spreading outwards. The subtle vibrations and movements emanating from them are not clearly defined spatially, yet almost physically palpable. The interplay of sculpture and movement disrupts the perception of the hall's otherwise clear orientation. The boundaries between technologically generated, human, and non-human worlds blur. Visitors are immersed in this organic-technical environment.

[Text source: Hamburger Bahnhof]