Born in Frankfurt am Main, Schwab studied Fine Arts at Düsseldorf Art Academy and completed as Master student of Prof. Markus Lüpertz in 1996. In 1992, Schwab received the Arts Award of the Düsseldorfer Kunstverein and a residency at Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris. In 2002, she taught as a visiting professor at the Royal Academy KABK Den Haag. Following that were work and residency Scholarships in New York, Vienna, Jinan/China and numerous national and international exhibitions. Her work is represented in various private and public collections. Schwab is a member of the International Graphzine Artist Collective Ruw!, of Female Painters Network Berlin/Leipzig, and of Female Painter Network Frank* Frankfurt/Main and co-curator of HilbertRaum Artspace, Berlin.
Eva Schwab lives and works in Berlin.
"In my painting I have been working for more than two decades on an extensive family album. My research into the complexity of family connections has evolved from the personal into the universal. It increasingly includes elective kinship relationships, alter egos, art historical and neurobiological quotations, as well as mythological and contemporary historical elements. I use the distinct physical and sensual qualities of encaustic painting to visually explore the recurrent themes of my work: Overwritings of memories, paradoxical communications, intergenerational emotional inheritance and afterimage phenomena."
