---
type: exposition
title: Eva Koťátková
language: en
url: "https://www.belvedere.at/en/eva-kotatkova-0"
---

# Eva Koťátková

## Stomach of the World

![Eva Koťátková](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/header_cropped_1920x480_fp/public/jart-images/_499086577129.jpg.webp?itok=gaUecv4h) 

**Duration:** 15 November 2017 - 18 February 2018

**For Eva Koťátková, the evolution of the self is a tightrope walk between internal and external pressures. Featuring a multitude of objects generating an expansive installation, her exhibition on the lower level of the Belvedere 21 revolves around the film *Stomach of the World* (2017), which forms the fulcrum of this thought.**

*Stomach of the World* has a running time of 46 minutes and is exhibited in a loop. In this surreal yet humorous film, the world is experienced from the perspective of children performing a sequence of exercises. The young actors imagine the world as a body that ingests objects and subjects and transforms them. Koťátková drafts the notion of a world as a stomach filled with stomachs and with what they engulf; the world like a snake in whose belly stockpiles another snake. It’s all about the politics of eating or being eaten.  

Eva Koťátková was born in 1982 in Prague, where she still lives today.  

Curated by Severin Dünser.  

\#stomachoftheworld21

### [Belvedere 21](https://www.belvedere.at/en/visit/belvedere-21)

**Opening hours:** Tuesday to Sunday, 11 am - 6 pm; Late Night: Thursday, 11 am - 9 pm

**Address:** Belvedere 21, 1030 Vienna ([Getting there](<https://www.google.com/maps?q=Belvedere 21,+Arsenalstraße 1,+1030+Vienna>))

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## Impressions

- ![Eva Koťátková — Eva Ko?átková, Stomach of the world, 2017 — Courtesy the artist, Meyer Riegger and hunt kastner, Prague](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/jart-images/_499086577128.jpg.webp?itok=N4WghFuB)
- ![Eva Koťátková — Eva Ko?átková, Stomach of the world, 2017 — Courtesy the artist, Meyer Riegger and hunt kastner, Prague](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/jart-images/_499086577130.jpg.webp?itok=tWz5rcQi)
- ![Eva Koťátková — Eva Ko?átková, Stomach of the world, 2017 — Courtesy the artist, Meyer Riegger and hunt kastner, Prague](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/jart-images/_499086577131.jpg.webp?itok=KVxFn4_I)
- ![Eva Koťátková — Eva Ko?átková, Stomach of the world, 2017 — Courtesy the artist, Meyer Riegger and hunt kastner, Prague](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/jart-images/_499086577132.jpg.webp?itok=YjMkNrXt)
- ![Eva Koťátková — Eva Ko?átková, Stomach of the world, 2017 — Courtesy the artist, Meyer Riegger and hunt kastner, Prague](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/jart-images/_499086577134.jpg.webp?itok=09DhBJ2u)
- ![Eva Koťátková — Eva Ko?átková, Stomach of the world, 2017 — Courtesy the artist, Meyer Riegger and hunt kastner, Prague](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/jart-images/_499086577133.jpg.webp?itok=lZl9uI9o)
- ![Eva Koťátková — Eva Ko?átková, Stomach of the world, 2017 — Courtesy the artist, Meyer Riegger and hunt kastner, Prague](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/jart-images/_499086577129_0.jpg.webp?itok=bXWSgv6b)
- ![Eva Koťátková — Photo: Sandro Zanzinger, © Belvedere, Vienna](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/jart-images/_508737856878.jpg.webp?itok=-ktYW-Mu)
- ![Eva Koťátková — Photo: Sandro Zanzinger, © Belvedere, Vienna](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/jart-images/_508737856877.jpg.webp?itok=CLOAeS-k)
- ![Eva Koťátková — Photo: Sandro Zanzinger, © Belvedere, Vienna](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/jart-images/_508737856876.jpg.webp?itok=Do6N1tKu)
- ![Eva Koťátková — Installation view Eva Ko?átková. Stomach of the World — Photo: Johannes Stoll, © Belvedere, Vienna](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/jart-images/_508737853907.jpg.webp?itok=3zUD-C4M)
- ![Eva Koťátková — Installation view: Eva Ko?átková. Stomach of the World — Photo: Johannes Stoll, © Belvedere, Vienna](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/jart-images/_508737853905.jpg.webp?itok=Dek8dVAS)
- ![Eva Koťátková](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/jart-images/_508737853900.jpg.webp?itok=5leew3Wg)
- ![Eva Koťátková — Installation view: Eva Ko?átková. Stomach of the World — Photo: Johannes Stoll, © Belvedere, Vienna](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/jart-images/_508737853897.jpg.webp?itok=Pn5b8TMA)