Eva-Maria Horstick
Ich arbeite mit Fotografie, Collage, Manga, KI und dokumentarischen Serien. Mein Ausgangspunkt ist das Unterwegssein: Städte, Menschen,  Leere, Licht, Bewegung. Durch Unschärfe, Schichtung und Kombination entstehen Bilder, die mehr Gefühl als Form transportieren. Meine dokumentarischen und Non-Profit-Arbeiten zeigen Realität, wie sie ist – respektvoll, leise, menschlich. Meine urbanen Fotografien zeigen Städte als Atmosphären zumeist bei Nacht.
Meine Collagen verbinden analoges Material mit digitalen Impulsen.
Meine KI-Arbeiten erweitern Wahrnehmung in neue Räume. 
 

A Journey Through Africa – With a Banner for Peace (1996)one of my first projects for peace. 

It was one of those moments that etch themselves deeply into memory: my son, the daughter of my ex-husband, and I standing face-to-face with five weapons pointed directly at us. We were somewhere along a dusty road in Africa, thousands of kilometers from home — and yet, never had the message I was carrying felt more urgent.

At the time, I was traveling across Africa with a simple but powerful banner. On it were the words:
"Universal Tolerance, Love and Peace."

Over the course of 5,000 kilometers, I stopped in villages, remote communities — wherever our journey led us. In each place, I invited people of all ages to stand behind the banner. It became more than just a piece of fabric with hopeful words. It became a statement. A gathering point. A quiet protest. A collective wish for peace in a world too often divided.

On March 16, 1996, I began this journey in Germany — with nothing but this message. In the weeks that followed, I traveled across the continent with the banner. At the time, no magazine in Germany was interested in sharing this story. I was surprised — after all, peace and love are needed everywhere.

What began as a personal mission became a shared journey — with strangers, with friends, with people who spoke different languages but understood the universal language of hope.

My message: Never give up.

Documentation, Deconstruction, Dignity

The contrasts Eva-Maria Horstick explores in her work are not artificially constructed — they arise from her own life. The juxtaposition of war and fashion is not an aesthetic device, but a biographical reality. There is no divide between her documentary work on exploitation and her aesthetic explorations of identity. Instead, there is a connecting thread — an ethical line that runs through her entire body of work.

One central theme unites all of her projects: dignity.
Whether portraying women, documenting violence, or visually exploring urban spaces, Horstick is always searching for what remains when everything else is stripped away. Her art is not a spectacle, but a place of reflection, of questioning, of humanity.

Art as an Attitude, Not Decoration

In a time when art is often reduced to likes, trends, or market value, Eva-Maria Horstick represents a different approach: art as a stance. Her work demands that we look closely, pause, and empathize. She asks questions where others offer answers. She exposes what others conceal. Her images are often uncomfortable, yet deeply moving — because they do not impose meaning, but rather open space for contemplation.

Eva has participated in over 90 exhibitions against human trafficking and the exploitation of women in Germany, Switzerland, and Austria — often in collaboration with Terre des Femmes. For over 30 years, she has been committed to human rights, women’s rights, and environmental issues.

Her impact often goes unnoticed, as she is not one to loudly promote her work. Instead, she is an artist who leads by example, inspiring others and encouraging exhibition visitors to look twice, to reflect more deeply.

Art actions and exhibitions have accompanied her life for decades. Women’s issues are central to her work, as is sustainability and the fight against the exploitation of nature.
For Eva, life is art — and art is life.

She has supported and continues to support other women in gaining visibility in art, politics, and culture. With her first series, "2490" – Gender Mainstreaming OP in Berlin (2002/2003), she made a strong artistic statement against war. In a world where fast news often erases the victims of conflict, her work insists that they not be forgotten.

Eva-Maria Horstick is an interdisciplinary artist, photographer, and lyricist. Since 2005, she has been writing song lyrics in secret, and is now releasing them as music with the help of AI. Her songs explore powerful and timely themes such as war, fashion and peace, human dignity, and environmental issues — poetic, reflective, and deeply resonant.

Two of her poems have been archived in the German National Library. Her artistic work has been featured internationally, including exhibitions and projects u.a.  in Japan, New York City (JCC, addressing human trafficking in collaboration with Dr. Brooke Bryant), Belgium, Austria, Switzerland, Israel, Palestine, the Netherlands, Germany, and Kosovo, where she shows her Kosovo- film against human trafficking 2002  - infant of UN soldiers and a General.

Eva-Maria Horstick’s practice moves fluidly between mediums, blending art, activism, and poetry. Her work invites reflection on the human condition and the socio-political realities of our time.

  Eva doesn’t just keep up with the times – she tries to stay ahead of them.

Since Jan. 2022, she has created thousands of AI-generated works, including fashion concepts, manga series, and design drafts for renowned houses like Versace, now archived in her studio.

As early as 2010, Eva began conducting interviews with young women aged 14–18, exploring themes of dreams and the future. She also extended this project to include women with disabilities, giving voice to perspectives rarely seen in mainstream media.

Her work is driven by peace.

Eva’s perception defies categorization – she doesn’t care about trends or the mainstream. She does what she feels compelled to do, regardless of recognition or financial reward. Whether her photo-meets-manga series found a large audience or not was never her concern – and yet, collectors found her work, quietly, without spectacle.

Eva lives with a deep sense of humility, fully aware that we are all temporary guests on this Earth. 

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