Martin Eder (born 1968 in Augsburg, lives and works in Berlin) studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg and at the Academy of Fine Arts Dresden, with Eberhard Bosslet. In his oeuvre he explores cultural value judgments and the relativism of beauty in art history, through e.g. provocative portrayals of kittens, puppies, kitsch, costumes and the female, as well as male nude.
Martin Eder has participated in numerous exhibitions in Germany and abroad, including solo exhibitions at the Newport Street Gallery London, the MUDAM Luxembourg, the Mönchehaus Museum Goslar, the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, the Geementemuseum The Hague, the Kunsthalle Mannheim and the Kunsthalle im Glaspalast Augsburg. His work is part of various large collections such as the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; the Seavest Collection of Contemporary American Realism, New York; the Gemeente Museum, The Hague; and the Deutsche Bank Collection, among others.
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Richard Leydier: Martin Eder - à l'ombre des jeunes filles en pleurs, Artpress, no 375, February 2011, p. 38 - 42. Thomas Wagner: There is no correct pose in a wrong negligee. In: Martin Eder. Der dunkle Grund, exh.cat. Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden Galerie Neue Meister, Cologne 2009, p. 25 - 28.Claudia Cosmo, Im dunklen Grund summt der Ruin, January 2009. Abstract published Zeitmagazin, 22 January 2009, p. 28-33.