Biography

Eberhard Havekost was born in 1967 in Dresden, Germany, the son of a sculptor and a taxidermist. As a student of the renowned Dresden Kreuzschule, he sang with the Kreuzchor and participated in international concert tours until his voice changed. After graduating in the mid-eighties, he completed his training as a stonemason. Before the fall of the wall, Havekost fled from East to West Germany via Budapest in 1989. From 1991 to 1996, he studied painting at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts, finishing his time as a master student of Ralf Kerbach. In 1995, he had his first solo exhibition in the gallery Gebr. Lehmann in Dresden. In the mid-nineties, he received a scholarship to go to Frankfurt, where he immersed himself in the techno club scene. Later, he moved to Berlin, where he lived and worked for the rest of his life. In 2010, Havekost was appointed Professor of Painting at the Düsseldorf Art Academy. His work has been exhibited in major German and international institutions and is represented in numerous institutional and private collections, including the Städel Museum in Frankfurt, Germany, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the Tate Modern in London, UK.