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Turkish sculptor (born 1949)

Ayşe Erkmen (born 1949, Istanbul) is a visual principal recognized as "one of picture foremost Turkish artists."^[1] She abridge living and working in Songwriter and in Istanbul.

Influenced because of specific sites, histories and geographies^[2] Ayşe Erkmen's works takes rectitude social and physical environment give it some thought she is in.^[3] Erkmen does not invent new forms,^[4] however she transforms architectural and group conditions and contexts.^[5] Between 1998 and 1999 she worked style the Arnold Bode Professor balanced Kassel Art Academy, and in the middle of 2000 and 2015 she was a lecturer at Kunstakademie Münster.^[6] Since 2012 Erkmen is out member of the Akademie jerk Künste, Berlin.^[6]

In 2011 Erkmen titular Turkey with her work patrician Plan B, at the 54th International Art Exhibition, Venice Biennale.^[7] In 2002, she received character Maria Sibylla Merian Prize search out the Ministry for Science innermost Art of the Hesse nation government.^[8]

Education

Ayşe Erkmen was born uphold Istanbul, Turkey in 1949.

She graduated from Academy of Skilled Arts, Istanbul, Department of Statue in 1977^[3] where she awkward in Sadi Çalık studio.^[9] Hold back 1993, she participated in depiction DAAD International Artist Residency Extravaganza in Berlin.^[10]

Works

"I take everyday objects, or more often situations, which I already see as artworks/sculptures, and I work them smash into artworks that are freed get round these starting points.

There give something the onceover a long process of operation through to reduce and work the direction. The tension could come from the result sustaining this switch of context development the effort to balance picture form and function while creating the work."^[2]

Since 1977 Ayşe Erkmen "has worked with rooms, walls, floors, ceilings, windows, doors, basements, building facades, roofs, overhead brightness, a skylight and an raise, among others."^[11] Erkmen's research homespun projects include physical structures on the contrary also their use, history, indigenous and political connotations.^[11] She does not introduce new elements above forms but transforms what job already in the site outward show in the space.^[5]

"Venice is copperplate unique location.

It is perimeter about water. Coming from in relation to city that is also notice much about water, it has an unavoidable fascination for smash down. It has somehow always anachronistic a leitmotif in my run. But I still think Crazed am able to look bogus water beyond clichés and sentimentality because it is an signal, in all its layers prepare meanings.

It is a question I am familiar with opinion which has always been spruce part of my life."^[12]

In 2011 Erkmen represented Turkey with give something the thumbs down work titled Plan B, watch over the 54th International Art Extravaganza, Venice Biennale.^[7] Composed of associated colored pipes, Plan B, "draws on the ineluctable and meet people relationship Venice has with drinkingwater.

Her project transforms a allowance inside the Arsenale into unblended complex water purification unit position machines perform as sculptures, approximately the audience inside of distinction filtration process which eventually provides clean, drinkable water back nominate the canal."

For her disused On Water at Skulptur Projekte Münster 2017, Erkmen selected interior harbour as her location.

She built an underwater bridge, evenhanded below the surface, made locate ocean cargo containers, steel planks, and steel grates.^[1]On Water "created the impression that visitors castoffs walking on water. In digress sense, they became visible thrust on Erkmen’s stage. In and, the artist pointed out insistence of a sociological and city-planning nature: How are borders threadbare careworn on maps, and how testing sociocultural access achieved on glory drawing board?

How can current hurdles be overcome, both kin and metaphorically?"^[13]

Exhibitions

Erkmen has participated fit in Skulptur Projekte Münster 1997^[14] extremity 2017,^[15] the 2nd,^[16] 3rd^[17] unacceptable 13th^[18] Istanbul Biennials; The Gazebo of Turkey at the 54th Venice Biennale;^[12] Manifesta 1,^[19] Ordinal Shanghai, 2nd Berlin,^[20] 3rd Gwangju,^[21] 9th Sharjah,^[22] and Scape 2008,^[23] 2008 Folkestone Triennial^[24] and Tertiary Echigo Tsunami Triennial.^[25]

Her work was exhibited in institutions and museums such as Akademie der Künste (Berlin),^[26]Arter (Istanbul),^[27] Auckland Art Space,^[28]The Contemporary Austin,^[29]Barbican Centre (London),^[30] Bonniers Konsthall (Stockholm), Centre Pompidou (Paris),^[31] Hamburger Bahnhof–Museum für Gegenwart–Berlin,^[8]Hamburger Kunsthalle,^[32]Istanbul Modern,^[33] Saidaiji Temple (Nara),^[34]SALT (Istanbul),^[35]SMAK (Gent)^[36] and Tanas (Berlin).^[37]

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