Ayşe Erkmen

Heated benches by Ayşe Erkmen on the banks of the Spree in Berlin

Crystal Rock on the roof of the NRW.Bank, Düsseldorf

Ayşe Erkmen (* 1949 in Istanbul , Turkey ) is a Turkish artist who works in Berlin and Istanbul.

Life

Erkmen studied sculpture and graduated from the Istanbul State Art Academy in 1977 with a degree in sculpture. From 1993 she received a scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Service in Berlin. In 1998 she worked as a guest lecturer at the University of Kassel . In 2000, she accepted a visiting professorship at the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main . In 2010 she was visiting professor for two semesters at the Kunstakademie Münster , where she then took on a professorship for sculpture (successor to Guillaume Bijl ). In 2011, Erkmen represented Turkey at the 54th Venice Biennale .

Of the numerous artistic interventions that she undertook, her contribution to the exhibition " Skulptur.Projekte " in Münster 1997, her "Shipped Ships" campaign by Deutsche Bank in Frankfurt and her installation "Kuckuck" at the St. Gallen Art Museum are among the most famous. Today she pays her main attention to sculptures , objects , installations and interventions.

In May 2012, Erkmen was elected to the Academy of Arts in Berlin.

In 2020 she was awarded the Ernst Franz Vogelmann Prize for contemporary sculpture .

Works

• 1997: Benches heated with transformer waste heat in front of the Berlin-Mitte thermal power station in Berlin.
• 1994: On the house 40 Turkish suffixes were added to a house on Oranienstrasse in Berlin-Kreuzberg.
• 2008: Crystal Rock on the roof of the NRW.Bank , Düsseldorf

Exhibitions

• 1997: “Sculptures on Air”, Skulptur.Projekte , Münster
• 2000: Kwangju Biennale
• 2001: Museum Friedericianum Kassel and Berlin Biennale
• 2002: “Not a good sign”, Vienna Secession , Vienna
• 2004: “bound to”, Museum Abteiberg , Mönchengladbach
• 2005: “Soaked”, Kunsthalle Schirn , Frankfurt am Main
• 2008: “Path Companions”, National Gallery in Hamburger Bahnhof , Berlin; K21 Art Collection North Rhine-Westphalia , Düsseldorf
• 2008 “Above the Fold” (with Ceal Floyer and David Lamelas ), Kunstmuseum Basel
• 2010: Emscherkunst. 2010 with the project Turm 79
• 2017: "On Water", Skulptur.Projekte , Münster
• 2017/2018: "Displacements / Entortungen" in the Museum of Fine Arts in Leipzig

literature

• Das Haus, Ev, The house. Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-89357-041-1 .
• In Berlin. Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-89357-050-0 .
• I-MA-GES. Recklinghausen 1997, ISBN 3-929040-33-6 .
• Not a good sign. Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-901926-42-9 .
• Edhem Eldem : Plan B: Ayşe Erkmen . Istanbul Kültür ve Sanat Vakfi, Istanbul 2011, ISBN 978-975-7363-93-4 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Ayşe Erkmen in the catalog of the German National Library
• Video interview Ayse Erkmen - Exhibition Hamburger Bahnhof Berlin 2008
• Exhibition "bound to" Abteiberg 2004
• Ayse Erkmen - portrait picture
• Christiane Meixner: " Ayse Erkmen shows a poetic retrospective at Hamburger Bahnhof " 2008
• Ayse Erkmen: "Coffee", 2007 (video)

Individual evidence

1. ^ New members of the Akademie der Künste Akademie der Künste, press release June 18, 2012.
2. ^ Westfälische Nachrichten : Sculpture Prize for Ayşe Erkmen , Münster / Kultur, Nachrichten, Gerhard H. Kock, September 21, 2019
3. ↑ Crystal Rock , on nrwbank.de
4. ↑ skulptur-projekte-archiv.de: Ayşe Erkmen, Sculptures on Air, 1997 , accessed on September 21, 2019
5. ^ "Tower 79" , accessed on April 24, 2012.
6. ↑ Projects for Münster 2017 ( Memento from 23 August 2017 in the Internet Archive )
7. ^ Website of the museum for the exhibition