Eva Spierenburg – Moving as a Mountain
Bradwolff & Partners presents Moving as a Mountain, an exhibition by Eva Spierenburg. Body and landscape are not positioned as opposites, but read as a single shifting field of matter — a system in which earth, skin and form continuously interpenetrate. What appears as body behaves like landscape; what appears as landscape operates like body. Across painting, sculpture, textile and drawing, fixed boundaries do not disappear as an idea, but through the way material itself behaves.
What emerges is not a linear process, but matter under tension, continuously taking form. Under pressure from growth, erosion and displacement, temporary configurations arise — like rock, like skin, like sedimentary layers constantly reorganising without fixed contour. Skin, stone and sediment do not function as categories, but as shifting states within the same field.
In the concentrated drawing sense of sediment (56) (2024) — acrylic, pencil, ink and graphite on paper — this tension is compressed to an intimate scale. Dark masses settle over one another like deposits, while cutting lines open the surface like a shifting crust. The image oscillates between sealing and opening, as if the material has not yet decided its state.
In sense of sediment (emerged) (2024), this tension expands into a simultaneously bodily and landscape-like surface. Textile, thread, stuffing and acrylic form a skin that never fully closes. Seams and frayed edges act as fault lines; light lingers in openings that do not resolve but continue to signal.
The ceramic work moving as a mountain (swallowed) (2026) slows and turns this movement inward. It appears as a thin, tense skin or geological layer without a stable body: uneven, partially open, partially sealed. Traces of pressure and handling remain inscribed in the surface. A blue edge cuts the work off, holding it in a state of tension.
Throughout the exhibition, scale shifts as an unstable measure. The small gains weight, the large contracts into proximity. Body and landscape are not opposites but interchangeable conditions. What remains is not a whole, but a field in which earth and skin continually rewrite one another.
Eva Spierenburg (1987, Utrecht) works across painting, sculpture, drawing, video and performance. She studied at HKU and participated in residencies at the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten in Amsterdam, Stöðvarfjörður in Iceland and EKWC in Oisterwijk (2025–2026).
Solo exhibitions include 38CC, Delft (2025), Drawing Centre Diepenheim (2023), Kunstenlab, Deventer (2021–2022), Chinese European Art Center, Xiamen (2019) and Centraal Museum Utrecht (2019).
Group exhibitions include Missen als een ronde vorm at Stedelijk Museum Schiedam (2025–2026), On Limits at VU Art Science Gallery, Amsterdam (2025–2026), When I Was You at Chabot Museum, Rotterdam (2025–2026), Good Mom/Bad Mom at Centraal Museum Utrecht (2025), Paper Biennial at Museum Rijswijk (2024), and Do We Care? at Museum de Fundatie – Kasteel het Nijenhuis (2023).
Spierenburg’s work is held in the collections of AMC Art Collection, Centraal Museum Utrecht, Isala Art Collection, Collectie de Groen, VU Art Collection, Chabot Museum, and private collections in Germany, Morocco and Switzerland.