Eva-Fiore Kovacovsky

🌿Still need a present?🌿 My book Feeding on Light published by @roma.publications is available at @san.serriffe @zabriskiebuchladen @ideabooksnl @cahiercentral @doyoureadme_berlin @athenaeumboekhandel @kunsthallebasel @stampa.galerie.basel @bradwolffpartners @kadeboeken @leporello.books and many more 🌿 Eva-Fiore Kovacovsky Feeding on Light, 2023 Roma 449 13 x 20 cm, 416 pages, printed with plant based ink Design by Dongyoung Lee, Roger Willems. Essays by Margot & Roland Spohn, Sina Ribak, Taco Hidde Bakker Feeding on Light examines photosynthesis through experimental photography and is laid out as a field guide. Imagine a collection of perforated leaves in which organisms like insects, fungi, or bacteria living in or eating the foliage have created an array of patterns. Transporting the outdoors into her analogue colour darkroom, Eva-Fiore Kovacovsky experimentally captured the traces of the often symbiotic tree-insect-sun relationships. An extensive index links the 136 photograms, 87 contact prints and 496 leaf negative prints to the plant species‘ common and scientific names. Three essays contextualise her light harvest record from the perspectives of biology, ecology and philosophy. Photos: Roger Willems

Saturday 16 May 2026
Blooming from Ashes
Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp, BE @research_royalacademyantwerp As part of the public programme, Sina Hensel @sinahensel and Eva-Fiore Kovacovsky will collaborate on Tasting Photosynthesis From Altered Grounds (Wild Ice Cream Shop) — a collective exploration of photosynthesis, polluted landscapes and ecological interdependence through foraging, tasting and conversation. Together with artist Brandon Ballengée and scientists Hanne Diels and Ronny Blust, participants will explore the ecosystems surrounding the Schelde estuary, gather wild plants and trace the toxic histories embedded in the polluted industrial grounds surrounding Antwerp. Working with plants growing in contaminated soil conditions, the workshop reflects on what it means to ingest landscapes altered by extraction, industry and environmental pollution. Programme: 10:00–11:30
Field trip to the dry docks and the Schelde estuary (Stormkop) 13:00–14:00
Collaborative wild plant ice cream making and tasting
(The Tempel, Academy) 14:30–15:30
Meet the artists of Blooming from Ashes in the Eco Lab

Blooming from Ashes
Group exhibition and public programme
14–17 May 2026
The Tempel, Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp, BE
Part of Antwerp Art Weekend With contributions by Brandon Ballengée @ballengeestudio , Fabiola Burgos Labra @fabiolaburgoslabra , Liza Goncharenko @sergisdottir , Sina Hensel @sinahensel , Eva-Fiore Kovacovsky, Ligia Poplawska @ligiapoplawska and Delphine Wibaux 
Curated by Roel Arkesteijn The exhibition brings together works addressing ecological entanglement, environmental toxicity and multispecies relations. @research_royalacademyantwerp Eva-Fiore Kovacovsky’s research explores how energy is passed on within ecosystems and how the process of photosynthesis can be made tangible through artistic and sensory experience. Influenced by Lynn Margulis’ Endosymbiosis Theory, ecofeminist thought, and participatory reading practices developed in the reading group Between Us and Nature, her work focuses on entanglement, collaboration, and the relationships between humans, plants, and other living organisms. Her contribution to the exhibition includes textile and photographic works created using plant juices, chlorophyll, cyanotype and anthotype processes. Plants become both medium and collaborator: their pigments, textures, and reactions to sunlight are directly embedded into fabric surfaces. The works investigate photosynthesis not only as a biological process in which light is transformed into Image 2 and 3 documentation Froh Ussicht, Samstagern, CH

Installation views from our exhibition “Light Layers” on view till the 19th of May. Visit the show by appointment or at the Finissage on the 19th of May from 17:00 till 20:00 at @projectspace_kimgo . @luca_caciagli_studio @evafiorekovacovsky @seufert.stefanie #artexhibition #artphotography #analogphotography #finissage

You are cordially invited to attend the next Reading Club BETWEEN US AND NATURE: this time, it will take place under the title “Milliseconds or Millions of Years - Light Time” at PROJECT SPACE KIMGO (NOT in the bookshop!), as part of the exhibition LIGHT LAYERS. We will read again from Leanne Betasamosake Simpson’s THEORY OF WATER. BETWEEN US AND NATURE is hosted by Eva-Fiore Kovacovsky and Sina Ribak. Admission is free, but registration is mandatory at betweenusnature (ath) gmail (doth) com. Where: PROJECT SPACE KIMGO, John-Schehr-Straße 1, 10407 Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg. When: Wednesday 22 April at 6:15 pm. @sinaribak @evafiorekovacovsky @projectspace_kimgo @biidaasamose In our past session while reading on nibi - the concept of water by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, the concept of time embraced us in our conversations. Asking what time is, brings us to reflect on light. Is it yellow in your imagination? Light as energy. Sunlight for photosynthesis. Light as time. Water as time. Between Us and Nature is an ongoing reading club. Attendees read passages together out loud, and share experiences and thoughts about the nature they live in. Looking beyond disciplines, the group creates a space to learn from and with soil, water, bacteria, algae, fungi, and multinaturalist narratives. This session takes place within the exhibition LIGHT LAYERS at PROJECT SPACE KIMGO. The exhibition opens today, Friday, 17 April 2026, 17–20h, and features works by Eva-Fiore Kovacovsky, Stefanie Seufert & Luca Caciagli, curated by Luca Caciagli. #betweenusandnature #leannebetasamosakesimpson #theoryofwater #zabriskiebookshop

It is with great joy that we would like to invite you to the opening of LIGHT LAYERS @evafiorekovacovsky , @seufert.stefanie & @luca_caciagli_studio @projectspace_kimgo Berlin Opening Friday, 17th of April 2026 17-20h Opening hours during Gallery Weekend: Saturday 2.5. and Sunday 3.5. from 14-18h Finissage with drink on the 19th of May from 18h 💫 The exhibition is open until May 20 by appointment. Please contact Luca Caciagli +49 15228318863 [email protected] Wednesday 22th of April 2026 18:15-20:30h Between Us and Nature - A Reading Club #59 Milliseconds or Millions of Years - Light Time Hosts: Eva-Fiore Kovacovsky & Sina Ribak @sinaribak In collaboration with Zabriskie Buchladen für Kultur und Natur @zabriskiebuchladen RSVP@ [email protected] Kimgo Project Space - Berlin John-Schehr-Straße 1, 10407 Berlin Light Layers brings together the three artists who return to the elemental chemistry of photography—working hands-on, creating unique images that reveal a direct relationship between the thing being imaged and the image itself. As a response to the dematerialisation of pictures in the digital environment and the endless reproduction of virtual images, these works reassert the image’s tangible connection to the world through touch, surface, and material presence. Through tactile and process-based approaches, Kovacovsky, Seuffert and Caciagli explore photography’s materiality and its relationship to light, touch, and sensory experience. The photograph becomes not a window onto reality, but a physical object—one that embodies interaction, transformation, and the invisible dynamics of its making. The exhibition is curated by Luca Caciagli

ZIIGWAN - THE SEASON OF RENEWAL is the title of the next edition of the reading club BETWEEN US AND NATURE. Save the date: next week Wednesday, 25th March from 6:30 pm (sharp!) to 8:30 pm / Doors 6:15. Hosted, as always, by Eva-Fiore Kovacovsky and Sina Ribak. Admission is free, everybody is welcome, but rsvp is mandatory via betweenusnature (eth) gmail (doth) com. @evafiorekovacovsky @sinaribak The snow has melted. The Anishinaabe season Ziigwan, invites us to the first part of spring, when the sap starts to flow again in the tree trunks. In our favourite time of the year, this season of renewal and radical transformation, we gather around nibi, the concept of water. We follow the eel how it used to swim from the Sargasso Sea to the Nishnaabeg territory now blocked by dams and polluted water. We dive into the pressing and personal writings of Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg scholar, writer, musician and artist Leanne Betasamosake Simpson in her latest book “Theory of Water – Nishnaabe Maps to the Times Ahead”. @biidaasamose In “Theory of Water” she tells stories of nibi, water, in its different states and her relationships to it. She connects water to elders‘ knowledge, and practices of resistance to counter colonialism and ecocides. #betweenusandnature #ecofeminism #leannebetasamosakesimpson #theoryofwater zabriskiebookshop

Cyanotype Workshop: Exploring Fabric as a Haptic Image Carrier with Eva-Fiore Kovacovsky, 18-19.2 kl(o) 10-17 Filmverkstaden presents a two-day hands-on workshop led by Eva-Fiore Kovacovsky. In this workshop, we will dive deep into the cyanotype technique. Invented in the 19th century, it was a woman, Anna Atkins who published the first photobook depicting the seaweed of Great Britain in cyanotype prints. Today, cyanotypes offer an interesting way to capture direct sunlight with a smaller chemical footprint than many other photographic techniques. In this workshop, we will focus on working with fabric as an image carrier. Participants will explore the multiple haptic fabric dimensions, experiment with double exposures by exposing both sides, and consider scale. We will focus on photograms and the implications of working at a 1:1 scale. Eva-Fiore Kovacovsky is a Swiss/Slovak artist and researcher based in Berlin. Her work centers on how energy is transferred in ecosystems. For example, she attempts to make the biological process of photosynthesis — how plants convert light into sugar — visible and tangible through photographic means and experimental formats. Visitors to her installations often experience sensory interactions, such as tasting a sorbet made from beech leaves while exploring her photographic works on the developmental process of spring. Participation fee is 80€, all materials are included. Max 8 students. Sign up by sending an email to [email protected] The workshop language is English. #filmverkstaden #cyanotype #fabricprint #analogphoto #photogram @nordiskkulturkontakt @taikegram @kulturfonden @vaasavasa

Eva-Fiore Kovacovsky, Fotogramm / Alder, 2011, 64 × 50.5 cm C-print, analogue multiple exposure, optical enlargement, colour filter On view in the group exhibition First Light at Bradwolff & Partners. Exhibition until 28 February 2026! A leaf, not as origin but as echo. Light falls in layers, yet vanishes as it arrives. The yellow exists only as presence — vivid, open, without background. The form hovers between memory and sight, between presence and loss. No edge, no name, only perception magnified. Recording as landscape, silence as material. ©️cvdb #fotogram #conceptualart #art #artcollection #bradwolffpartners

Art & Ecology Reading Group → Upcoming sessions → Eco Lab @royalacademyantwerp The Art & Ecology Reading Group meets monthly at the Eco Lab of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts. Each session focuses on reading and discussing urgent and relevant texts at the intersection of art, ecology, and activism. The group is open to everyone. Researchers, staff, students, alumni, and others are warmly welcome to join for a single session or the entire season. Upcoming sessions take place at the Eco Lab on Thursdays from 17:00 to 19:00 15 January 2026 12 February 2026 19 March 2026 23 April 2026 21 May 2026 18 June 2026 Organised by Roel Arkesteijn, Sina Hensel, and Eva-Fiore Kovacovsky from the Art & Ecology research group of the Academy. → More information on reading materials and how to particpate #linkinbio 📷 (1) Art & Ecology Reading Group during the duo exhibiton by Inês Neto dos Santos and Sina Hensel at the Wintertuin, Academy, November 2025, photo by Sina Hensel / (2) Upcoming session on 15 January #researchroyalacademyantwerp #artandresearchantwerp #royalacademyantwerp #artandecology #art&ecology #readinggroup @sinahensel @evafiorekovacovsky #roelarkesteijn

Tasting Photosynthesis - 47.2015627, 8.6778692, 2025 On-site photographic experiments with light, plant parts, and cyanotype on fabric, cyanotypes, approx. 160 x 80 cm each Expanded Fields : ERDE/N curated by @sabinerusterholz and @carolemonique13 @froh_ussicht @hofblum , Samstagern, CH Documentation: Michel Gilgen, Eva-Fiore Kovacovsky and Veronika Spierenburg

Inspiration – Expiration Eva‑Fiore Kovacovsky On view until 25 October at Bradwolff & Partners Eva‑Fiore Kovacovsky approaches breath through nature. Her photographs and installations focus on light, leaves, and the passing of seasons. Cyanotypes and analogue processes reveal rhythms of growth, decay, and transformation. Plants are not just subjects — they are collaborators. Light leaves traces, chance becomes partner, and time becomes visible. Her works breathe slowly. Warm welcome! #art @bradwolffpartners #breath #comtemporaryart #photogram #galleryviewer #amsterdamart #exhibition