The Heatings made from loden inherently carry the heat within them: Loden is created through friction, pressure, and heat - a material transformation process. Here, heat is a physical, social, and spiritual energy that enables change.
Otto retreated from her studio on Berlin's Kurfürstendamm to a workshop in the countryside to handcraft her edition. The result is 30 unique pieces. The applied drops vary in number, size, and shape, evoking beads of sweat, tears, or breast milk.
The Heatings reference culturally feminized spheres of care, intimacy, and manual labor. They combine Beuys' idea of warmth as a creative force with Trockel's critical, feminist perspective on textile traditions. In doing so, they also direct our attention to the aesthetic, social, and political dimensions of care work.
Artist: Eglė Otto
Title: Heating
Year: 2025
Material: Rubber, Felt (wool)
Size: approx. 33 x 22 cm
Edition: 30 + 5 AP
Signed, numbered, and dated on the reverse.
The Heatings were handmade by the artist. There are 30 original pieces, each of which may differ slightly from the images shown.
Eglė Otto
The painter Eglė Otto explores bodies as bearers of social attributions and as sites of individual experience. Between abstraction and figuration, she develops a visual language that rethinks feminist art history and consciously places the female gaze at its center.
Exhibitions (selection)
2028 Paula Modersohn-Becker Museum, Bremen (Solo)
2024 I Only Work With Lost And Found – Goldrausch 2024, Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Berlin
2023 Spatial Deconstruction: New Legends, Melike Bilir Gallery, Hamburg (Solo)
2021 Eglė Otto signs her children, Mathias Güntner Gallery, Berlin (Solo)
2018 The Female Gaze on Body, Love and Sex I + II, Kunsthaus Erfurt and Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin
2016 Father Figures Are Hard To Find, nGbK, Berlin
Studies
2010 Master of Fine Arts, HFBK Hamburg (under Werner Büttner, Anselm Reyle)
Publications & further information
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