Eva Rubinstein
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“Photography, more lucid than handwriting, and more permanent than dreams, can raise, and sometimes speak to, the most profound and fundamental questions of our lives. I have no doubt that photography, because of its ability to “take” information in hundredths of a second, and then to remain as a witness, is a unique instrument allowing us to see beyond the surface of our lives.“ –Eva Rubinstein
Born 1933 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, while her parents Aniela Mlynarska and Arthur Rubinstein, the famous pianist, were on a concert tour in South American. When the family was not traveling, they lived mainly in Paris. With the outbreak of World War II in 1939, they emigrated to the United States.
Eva Rubinstein made a career as a dancer and actress in New York on and off Broadway, including the original production of “Diary of Anne Frank”. Her marriage to Reverend William Sloane Coffin and three children had brought a whole new awareness of the “real” world, as contrasted with her previous life, and after the divorce she could never have returned to make-believe.
In photography she found a way to research her surroundings and what she calls “the third dimension” - the result of a fusion of outer reality as we perceive it, with our own deepest sensibilities and responses to that reality. This fusion produces a kind of interior landscape beneath the surface of the image, which we are free to explore and try to understand.
Eva Rubinstein's work has been exhibited internationally and is held in numerous private and public collections like The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (US), Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts, Hokuto (JP) Museum Ludwig, Cologne (DE).
Born 1933 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, while her parents Aniela Mlynarska and Arthur Rubinstein, the famous pianist, were on a concert tour in South American. When the family was not traveling, they lived mainly in Paris. With the outbreak of World War II in 1939, they emigrated to the United States.
Eva Rubinstein made a career as a dancer and actress in New York on and off Broadway, including the original production of “Diary of Anne Frank”. Her marriage to Reverend William Sloane Coffin and three children had brought a whole new awareness of the “real” world, as contrasted with her previous life, and after the divorce she could never have returned to make-believe.
In photography she found a way to research her surroundings and what she calls “the third dimension” - the result of a fusion of outer reality as we perceive it, with our own deepest sensibilities and responses to that reality. This fusion produces a kind of interior landscape beneath the surface of the image, which we are free to explore and try to understand.
Eva Rubinstein's work has been exhibited internationally and is held in numerous private and public collections like The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (US), Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts, Hokuto (JP) Museum Ludwig, Cologne (DE).
Biography
Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1933.
Lives and works in New York, USA.
Solo shows (selection)
2021
Elegies, Galerie Clara Maria Sels, Düsseldof, Germany
2009
“Élégies,” In Camera Galerie, Paris, France
“Élégies,” Jan Krugier Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland
2008
“Elegies,” Jan Krugier Gallery, New York, USA
“Contemporary Artists in the Wake of van Gogh,” Debrecen, Hungary
Municipal Library, Berlin, Germany
2007
Bremen, Germany
Museum of the History of the City of Lodz, Lodz, Poland
2006
Alliance Française, New York, USA
2004
Château de la Petite Malmaison, Reuil-Malmaison, France
2003
Europa Gallery, Brooklyn, New York, USA
2002
National Philharmonic, Warsaw, Poland
2000
Opera House, Lodz, Poland
1999
Polish Consulate, New York, USA
Polish-American Cultural Center, Washington, D.C., USA
1998
International Cultural Center, Philadelphia, USA
Instytut Polski, Bratislava, Slovakia
Galeria Pusta, Górnoslonskie Centrum Kultury, Katowice, Poland
Galeria Korytarz, Jelenia Góra, Poland
Muzeum Regionalny, Wrzesnia, Poland
Centrum Kultury Zamek, Poznan, Polan
1997
The Hungarian Museum of Photography, Budapest
XVII Konfrontacje Fotograficzne, Gorzów Wielkopolski, Poland
Galleries of the Polish Institute: Sofia, Bulgaria Moscow Berlin Prague
I. Beszkova Gallery, Plewen, Bulgaria
Group shows (selection)
2024
je suis, Galerie Clara Maria Sels, Düsseldorf, Germany
2016
“Miscellaneous,” InCamera, Paris, France
InCamera, Photo London, United Kingdom
2015
With Cartier-Bresson, Capa, & Sander, Beijing, China
“Intimités,” Mois de la Photo, Paris, France
Savannah College of Art Museum, Georgia, USA
2014
[With Jiang Jian] American Cultural Center, Beijing, China
2013
Photofair, Lianzhou City, Quangdong Province, China
2009
Art Paris, Grand Palais, Paris, France
Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, Mass, USA
2008
Galeria Carla Sozzani, Milan, Italy
Museo di Roma di Trastevere, Rome, Italy
Presentation House Gallery, N.Vancouver, B.C., USA
2007
“Lisette Model and her Successors,” Aperture Gallery, New York, USA
Museum of the History of Lodz, Lodz, Poland
2005
XL, la collection photographique du musée d’Arles, France
2004
Floating Foundation of Photography, New York, USA
2003
Gutman Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA
Skulski Gallery, New Jersey, USA
2002
Anniversary Exhibit, Lodz Photographic Society, Poland
Zacheta Gallery, in honor of Ryszard Stanislawski, Warsaw, Poland
