Biography

It started with an old, discarded Kodak box camera — one a six-year-old had set her heart on. That first camera set something in motion for Eva-Maria Fahrner-Tutsek: a way of looking at the world that has never quite let go of her since.
For years, though, her path led elsewhere: into the world of science. She earned a master’s degree in psychology and a PhD in natural sciences, and went on to work as a research psychologist at the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry and at the Technische Universität München, later leading a research group at a nonprofit research institute. Along the way, she published numerous scientific essays and books, a body of work built on precision, evidence, and rigorous thought.
In 2000, she became founding Chairwoman of the Executive Board of the Alexander Tutsek-Stiftung in Munich, a role she has held ever since. From the very beginning, she has shaped the foundation’s vision and guided its growth. As CEO and Art Director, she curates art exhibitions and writes on international contemporary glass art and photography, moving fluently between the roles of organizer, thinker, and creative eye.
And through it all, the camera never left her hand. Alongside her scientific and curatorial life, she kept photographing and publishing several photography books. For Eva-Maria Fahrner-Tutsek, photography has never been a departure from her other work so much as a parallel path: a way of exploring the world that stands apart from data and discourse, offering instead a different, more intuitive kind of understanding. She takes photographs, still drawn by the impulse that a camera can reveal the world in a way nothing else quite can.

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