Anke Eilergerhard

Born in 1963 in Wuppertal, Germany, Anke Eilegerhard creates beguilingly hypnotic sculptures that stimulate not only the sight, but also our senses of touch, taste, and smell. After completing her training in 1991 at École nationale supérieure des arts appliqués et des métiers d'art in Paris and 1994 at University of Wuppertal in Communications Design, Anke Eilergerhard began creating sculptures in silicone in 2004. Her applied interest in the tactile properties of materials has been at the forefront of her practice since early in her career, when she showed her paintings, which featured floral excrescences that extended outside the limits of the framing, in textured frames. Both the aestheticism of Anke Eilergerhard’s works and the themes they engage inscribe themselves within feminist discourse. The artist appropriates the meticulous technique of cake decorating while rejecting the universe of the kitchen traditionally associated with the female gender, mastering impeccably a technique that many may dismiss as a recreational pass-time acting as a testament to leisure. She also recently won the art silicone Tempelhof-Schönberger-Berlin Art Prize, and in 2017 launched a collaboration entitled Sweet Dream with international fashion house FENDI. Her works are represented in numerous collections, including Fendi Rome, Paris, Hong Kong; Fidelity Investments, London; Four Seasons, Abu Dhabi; Luciano Benetton Art Collection, Treviso; Insiders Technologies, Kaiserslautern, Berlin; Arte Al Limite, Santiago de Chile; The Leinemann Collection, Berlin.