Azade Köker

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Azade Köker (* 1949 in Istanbul ) is a Turkish sculptor, painter and university professor who lives in Berlin.

Life

Köker studied at the Art Academy in Istanbul (1968–1972). She has lived in Germany since 1973, where she continued and completed her training at the HdK in Berlin with Lothar Fischer from 1973 to 1979. She has had her own studio in Berlin since 1978. A visiting professorship at the University of the Arts Bremen (1994–1995) was followed by professorships at the Burg Giebichenstein - University of Art and Design Halle (1995–2003) and at the Institute for Architectural Art at the TU Braunschweig (2003–2014).

Her work has been shown in several solo and group exhibitions and she has received a number of awards. According to Eva Weber, your wife with a veil is considered to be one of the most concise representations of uncertainty about norms in emigration. Köker's work can be found in museum collections, but even more of her installations and sculptures can be found in public spaces (mainly Germany), e.g. B. The encounter in the human landscape of Berlin .

Works in museums - exhibitions

Works in museums and collections
Solo exhibitions
  • Unchained (Proje4L, Elgiz Museum, Istanbul, 2015)
  • Moving Spaces (Zilberman Gallery, Berlin, 2013)
  • Human Nature (Milli Reasüran's Art Gallery, Istanbul, 2007)
  • Transparency of absence (Otto-Galerie, Munich, 2004)
  • Transparency of the garden (Kunstverein Bielefeld, 2001)
Group exhibitions
  • Ultrahabitat (Zilberman Gallery, Berlin, 2016)
  • Meeting Point (Kunstverein Konstanz, 2015)
  • Dream and Reality (The Istanbul Museum of Modern Art, Istanbul, 2011)
  • Huma Kabakçı Collection: 60 years of Turkish art - between tradition and provocation (Mönchehaus Museum, Goslar, 2010)

Awards

Publications

  • Olav Münzberg: Avocados in German potato fields? , in: Aesthetics and Communication 44, Berlin, June 1981, pp. 102-108
  • Eva Weber: In two worlds , New Critique Verlag, Frankfurt a. M. 1988, pp. 91-93
  • Azade Köker: A guest in Germany, at home in the studio , in: Art , No. 5, May 1988, pp. 96–97
  • Kerstin Mey: Bodies of Substance , in: Paradoxa , Vol. 4, London 1999, pp. 11-19
  • Hermann Pfütze: Azade Köker, Special Reports , in: Kunstforum , Vol. 151, July - September 2000
  • Kerstin Mey (Ed.): Azade Koker , in: Sculpsit: Contemporary Artists on Sculpture and Beyond (= transcript ), Manchester University Press, Manchester 2002
  • Interview with Elcin Sener , in: The New Anatolian , Ankara 2005

Web link

Individual evidence

  1. Tabular curriculum vitae on the website of the TU Braunschweig
  2. Museum website (English, with illustration)
  3. ^ Website for the Meeting Point exhibition
  4. ^ Museum website