Biography
Günel Eva (b. Azerbaijan) is a multidisciplinary artist and experience designer based in London. She graduated from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia and has worked internationally across Europe, Asia, and the United States. Her practice spans oil on canvas, watercolor, textiles, set design, costume, installation, and experimental film.
Eva’s work often explores themes of ecology, feminism, lucid dreaming, and the subconscious, transforming collective pain into intimate spaces of beauty and care. She moves fluidly between painting and multi-sensory environments that integrate sound, scent, light, and participatory processes.
She has collaborated across hospitality, theatre, and large-scale immersive experiences, creating projects that dissolve boundaries between gallery, stage, and environment. Her current focus lies in ecological and participatory installations that invite audiences to experience art not only as an object, but as a living ecosystem of perception, memory, and story.
My artistic practice lives alongside my work in immersive experience design — where I craft worlds, rituals, and stories that invite people to feel, connect, and remember.Artist Statment
My paintings, installations, and time-based works attempt to dissolve the sovereignty of the human body and open it back into the ecological continuum. My practice unsettles the boundary between inner and outer landscapes, tracing the porous edges where memory, psyche, and ecology converge. Through oil on canvas, watercolor, textiles, and experimental film, I explore how intimacy, grief, and kinship reconfigure our relationship to more-than-human worlds, proposing tenderness and wonder as radical forms of survival.
Drawing from feminism, lucid dreaming, archetypal imagery, and speculative ecologies, I create immersive environments that merge sound, scent, light, and touch. By weaving painting and textile traditions into multi-sensory landscapes, I counter the separation of nature and culture, while also transforming collective pain into spaces of beauty and care. Threaded throughout are reflections on fragility, kinship, metamorphosis, and freedom — a search for new myths of belonging in precarious times.
My works invite viewers to linger in spaces where boundaries collapse — between self and environment, subconscious and waking, human and more-than-human. They are not static images, but ecosystems of perception, asking: How do our inner states alter the ecologies around us? What does it mean to imagine kinship across species and matter? And how might art become a site where we rehearse alternative futures — tender, porous, feminist, and shared?
