The Hunting Game (2023-2025)
This collage series is based on imagery from a 1950s hunting book from former Czechoslovakia, combined with other vintage sources featuring non-Western women and children. The work explores power, inequality, and survival — showing how relationships between humans, animals, nature and society are shaped by dominance. Figures caught in these images seem to fight for freedom, raising questions about how 'soft power' can resist and endure. Through this, I seek to challenge dominant narratives and highlight empathy, resilience, and inner strength.
Eva Gjaltema (1979) is a Dutch visual artist working mainly with photography, collage and mixed media and who has been living in Berlin since 2012. Her artistic work stems from a profound desire to explore and illuminate themes related to life experiences and the inner conflicts we face as human beings. She combines various archival and self-created photographic materials, removes them from their original context, and rearranges the images to unfold new meanings.
She holds a Master's degree in Cultural Studies from the University of Amsterdam (2004) and a Bachelor's degree in Photography Design from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in The Hague (2008). Currently, she is pursuing training to become an art therapist.
In 2010, her work was nominated for the Dutch Doc Award for her exhibition 'Famylje,' which was showcased at the Noorderlicht Photofestival in 2010 and at the Fotomuseum Den Haag in 2015. Additionally, it was acquired by the Fries Museum in the Netherlands. She received a grant (Post Middendorp Assignment) to create the work 'Knoalster' in 2011, which was displayed at the Kunsthal Rotterdam and as a solo exhibition at the Noorderlicht Gallery Groningen.
She exhibited at various venues including Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, Frauenmuseum Wiesbaden, Rencontres d'Arles, Jarvis Dooney Gallery Berlin, Hellerau Photography Awards, Incadaques Photofestival. Her series 'Hiding/Hidden' was among the winners of the Hariban Award 2022, nominated for the Critical Mass top 50 2023 and Julia Margaret Cameron Award (Fine Art) 2024.
Opening:
19.09.2025 | 19:30
Opening hours:
Tuesday–Thurdsay | 10:00–18:00
Friday | 12:00–20:00
Saturday–Sunday | 12:00–17:00
Gallery of Modern Art Leon Wyczółkowski District Museum in Bydgoszcz