Eva Hertzsch and Adam Page’s projects reflect on the strategies and hierachies which define today's urban experience. Their work critiques the current transformation of public space from a common resource to a product, the denunciation of the social by an allconsuming economical and the festivalisation of cities.

Their practice is group orientated and understands art as a means of communication and exchange. They have increasingly directed their projects at specific partners in society instead of at an art public or a random passer by. They hope that the resulting collaborations with groups of residents extend participation in cultural processes to new areas of society. An example of this is the much sort after „sustainability“ which followed their „FOR SALE“ project on the Prohlis Estate in Dresden in 2006 where residents have since founded the neighbourhood arts centre IDEE 01239 e.V. with the artists. In this sense, Eva Hertzsch and Adam Page’s work more about art in the public interest rather than art in public space.

CVs of Eva Hertzsch and Adam Page

Eva Hertzsch    
1965 born in Esslingen, Germany
1986 -1991 Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Karlsruhe

Adam Page    
1966 born in Bedford, GB
1986 - 89 B.A. Honours Fine Art, Loughborough College of Art & Design
1989 - 91 Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Karlsruhe
1992 - 93 M.A. 'Art in Architecture', University of East London

Live in Berlin with children Hannah and Benny. Collaboration since 1997.
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Projects, for example in Kassel (documenta x, 1997)(only Page), Dresden (Info Offspring Kiosk, 2000-2006 and with IDEE 01239 e.V. since 2006), Den Haag (c/o Stroom, 2002), Leipzig (Heimat Moderne, 2005), Berlin (Okkupation in Neukölln, 2006 and Pari Mutuel in Tempelhof Airport, 2008), Rome (LottoaL38 in Villa Massimo 2004 and with Centro Social L38Squat, 2006), Norwich (EASTinternational, 2007) and Moscow (Moskonstrukt, 2009)

Projects with school pupils in Berlin-Neukölln („NeuköllnNews“, since 2008 and „Stadtbezirk einmal anders“, 2009). www.kanal44.de/politik.php

Initiaters of U10 - from here to the imaginary and back again, the new NGBK public art project on the Berlin Underground network, from 2009. www.U10-berlin.de

Publications include „FOR SALE. Kooperationen von KünstlerInnen und BewohnerInnen vor dem Hintergrund des WOBA-Verkaufs“, published by Eva Hertzsch, Julia Meier, Adam Page and Jan Wenzel, Vice Versa Verlag, Berlin 2007