About

Eigen (b. 1969, Germany) began her career in 1995 with the BT New Contemporaries Award for her series of large scale images of burned walls called ‘Lichtenhagen’. Lichtenhagen is a district of Rostock, Germany. Stones and petrol bombs were thrown at an apartment block where asylum seekers lived and neighbourhood onlookers stood by applauding them.

In 1996, a year after finishing her MA at the Royal College of Art, London she worked in the Balkans, Afghanistan, Mexico and Ukraine, to later focus on abstract natural forms, developing a distinctive aesthetic of reduction of shapes and contents, …