Tim Eitel Leonberg, Alemania, b. 1971

Born in 1971, Tim Eitel lives and works in Berlin and Paris.
He studied at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst in Leipzig between 1997 and 2001. Since 2015, he has been teaching at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris.

Eitel uses painting to create analogies with reality, constructing fictional parallel worlds based on situations he has seen or experienced. His paintings are based on photographed encounters, objects, or existing spaces. Rather than telling stories, his works present a moment in which there is no before or after, defined by the constellation of figures within a space, the fall of light in architectural environments, and the relationships between colors.

He has participated in group and solo exhibitions worldwide, including at Museum zu Allerheiligen, Schaffhausen, Switzerland (2004); the Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri (2005); Kunsthalle Tübingen (2008); Rochester Art Center, Minnesota (2013); Essl Museum, Klosterneuburg, Austria (2013); Kasteel Wijlre, the Netherlands (2018); Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig, Germany (2019); Daegu Art Museum, South Korea (2020); and the Böttcherstraße Museum, Bremen (2022).

Eitel’s work is held in numerous important collections, including the Albertina, Vienna; ARKEN Museum of Modern Art, Ishøj, Denmark; the Deutsche Bank Collection, Germany; Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin; Museum Frieder Burda, Baden‑Baden; and the Rubell Family Collection, Miami.