Nezaket Ekici

01/11/1970 born in Kirsehir Turkey/ lives since 1973 in Germany
Lives and works in Berlin and Stuttgart
http://www.ekici-art.de/

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Statement
The idea, the thought, the draft are the bases for the execution of my artwork. Ideas come from everyday life situations, social and cultural atmospheres. Then the idea expresses itself in the performances and installation art. As well as this, I use the body as a means of expression.
The artistic idea is expressed using the body alone, as part of the installation and within the context of an audience.
The subjects I deal with are time, movement, space, material, body, action/interaction. I try to create works of art that leave for the viewer, free space for associations and new possibilities. I take a special situation from everyday life and without illustrating this one for one; I place it into a new context.
I aim to create art where all of the elements are connected together to form a whole work of art ( Gesamtkunstwerk)


Education
1990 – 1993 Degree in Layout Operator and Printing Plate training, Duisburg and München
1994 – 2000 M.A. Degree in Art Pedagogy and Art History, with Prof. Wolfgang Kehr, Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München
1996 – 2000 Studies sculpture, with Prof. Heribert Sturm, Akademie der Bildenden Künste, München
2001 – 2003 Degree in Fine Arts, with Prof. Dr. Marina Abramovic, Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweig
2004 MFA-Degree, with Prof. Dr. Marina Abramovic, Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweig


Scholarships, Grants, Awards (Selection)
2003 Bursary for Artist in Residencies , Stiftung Künstlerdorf Schöppingen
2004 Bursary for Artist in Residencies, Barkenhoff-Stiftung Künstlerhäuser Worpswede
2004 GASAG Art Award Berlin 2004
2005 Bursary for Artist in Residencies BM Contemporary Art Center ISTANBUL
2005 Arbeitsstipendium Stiftung Kunstfonds Bonn
2006 Project grant from Goethe Institut Los Angeles/ USA
2007 Bursary for Artist in Residencies, Schloß Wiepersdorf
2007 U2 Alexanderplatz, NGBK, Art Award
2008 Fado International Artist in Residencies, IDea series Toronto Canada
2009 Project grant from Goethe Institut Tbilissi
2009 Project grant from Goethe Institut Ankara
2010 Arbeitstsipendium Berliner Senat
2010 Project Grant from Goethe Vietnam
2010 Project Grant Karin-Abt Straubinger Stiftung


Solo Exibition (Selection)
2002 „Emotion in Motion“ Kissperfor./Instal. Gallery Valeria Belvedere Milano
2005 „Orientación-Nezaket Ekici“ Performance, Video, Fotoeditions; Goethe Institut Madrid, Spain
2005 „National Anthems“ Videoinstallation, Proje 4L Artvarium, Elgiz Museum of Contemporary Art
2005 „Gözü Kara/ Fearless“ Karsi Sanat Calismalari, Istanbul
2006 „Self Deversity“ Kasa Gallery, Istanbul
2007 „Blind“ Staatsgalerie Stuttgart
2007 „Life Extreme“ U2 Alexanderplatz Berlin
2008 Nezaket Ekici, Performance and Videos, Gallery TPW, Toronto Canada
2008 Memories of Objects, DNA Gallery Berlin
2009 Umgestülpt, Kunstmuseum Heidenheim
2009 Kopfsonate, Claire Oliver Gallery NYC
2010 Alles Fließt, Kunstverein Friedrichshafen
2010 Zitate, DNA Galery Berlin
2011 Retrospektive Nezaket kici, Museum Marta Herford


Group Exibition (Selection)
2011
exhibition: Selected Artists 2010, Stipendiatinnen und Stipendiaten des Arbeitstipendiums für Bildende Kunst des Berliner Senats
Performance: Veling and Reveiling, at , Pathological Esthetics V, HAN University, Nijmegen
exhibition: "Shadows of the Bright", A Tribute of selected Artists due to the 5 th anniversary of Berliner Kunstkontakter, 25.3.-17.4.2011, im Showroom Unter den Linden 40, Berlin
exhibition: Momenum/ Berlin Inaugural Exhibition Sydney / Berlin / Worldwide: Works from the Momentum Collection 28 January– 28 March 2011, Kunstquartier Bethanien Berlin
exhibition: Spagat, Design Istanbul Tasarimi, Marta Herford
exhibition: Alles wandelt sich, Video group show, DNA Galerie Berlin
exhibition: Geist ist Geil, Künstlerdorf Schöppingen
videoscreen: at Kuli Theater, Performer Stammtisch, Month of Performance rt, Berlin
exhibition: Patria o Libertad! On Patriotism, Immigration and Contemporaqry Populism, Cobra Museum Amsterdam
exhibition: Of women's modesty and anger, Villa Empain,Boghossian Foundation, Brussel
performance: Dani hrvatskog performansa ovog tjedna slave svoj 10. rođendan, Varazdin
performance: Kunstfrühling 2011, Gedok Bremen, Güterhalle Bremen
exhibition and performance: Global Contemporary. Art Worlds after 1989, ZKM Karlsruhe
2010
Groupexhibition: "Reflection"; DNA Galerie Berlin
Performance/Installation: "Das Fundament der Kunst - Die Skulptur und ihr Sockel seit Alberto Giacometti", Städtisches Museum Heilbronn
Groupexhibition: The Haifa Mediterranean Biennale Haifa, Israel
Performance und Workshop At Macalester Collage St Paul, Minnesota, USA
Groupexhibition: Unpossessing femininity: No more bad girls? Kunsthalle Exnergasse Vienna
Groupexhibition: glyptikes afigisis - sculptural narration, Museum Alex Mylona, Athen
2009
Exhibition: Heykelsi Eylemler, Skulpturale Handlung, BM Suma Contemporary Art Center, Istanbul
Performance and Exhibition: 5th Latin American Biennial of Visul Arts – Vento Sul, Curitiba
Exhibition: Die Berliner Istanbul Stipendiaten, Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Berlin
Exhibition: Palais für Aktuelle Kunst, Kunstverein Glückstadt summer
Performance: ebent Festival 2009, Barcelona and Sabadell,
Performance: MARCO Museo de Arte Contemporánea de Vigo
Performance: The 10th Open International Performance Art Festival Beijing, China
Groupexhibition: "Rebelle Art and Feminism 1969-2009", Museum voor Moderne Kunst Arnhem, Niederlande,
2008
Exibition: „Il Velo“ CeSAC Centro Sperimentale per le Arti Contemporanee, Caraglio (CN) Italy,
Exibition: „Türkisch Delight“, Galerie der Stadt Backnang,
Performance: Artfair Arco with DNA Gallery Madrid,
Performance and Workshop: CONTENEDORES_8_octava muestra internacional de arte de acción, Sevilla
Exibition: „Mahrem“ Kunsthalle project space Wien,
Exibition, Performance, Workshop: Temsilde Huzursuzluk, Siemens Sanat, Istanbul
Exibition: “Ceremonial Actions” Image Festival, Harbourfront centre; York Gallery, Toronto
Exhibition: Mahrem, Gallery Tanas, Berlin, 14.6.2008-10.8.2008
Performance and Exibition: "Save As...", Triennale Bovisa Museum, Milano
Performance and Gastcurator: Sinopale, Second Sinop Biennale, Turkei
Performancefestival: "10th Asiatopia" Bangkok,thailand
2007
Exibition: "Meltem of Istanbul" Proje 4L, Elgiz Museum of Contemporary Art Istanbul
Exibition: "Into me out of me" Kunst Werke Berlin
Exibition and Performance : "Fashion Accidentally." Museum of Contemporary Arts, Taipei/Taiwan
Venice Biennale/ Performance: 5th International Festival of Contemporary Dance Body & Eros (Curator Ismael Ivo), The Erotic Body, (IPG )Curated by Marina Abramovic, 52nd Venice Biennale
Exibition and Performance: „RARE ESSENCE“ Aeroplastics Contemporary Brüssel
Exibition: „Mahrem“ Santral Istanbul Galerie 1, Istanbul
2006
Exibition: Blessed are the Merciful Groupexibition, Galerie Feigen, New York
Performance: Foi#3 International Performancefestival Singapore and Satu Kali Festival Malaysia
Exibition: “Into me, Out of me- “PS1 New York
Exibition and Performance: Sinopale, 1 Sinop Biennale, Turkey
Exibition and Performance: "Depicting Action" “Galerie 18th”, Performanceseries, Festival: Santa Monica and Goethe Institut Los Angeles
Exibition and Performance: All for one, One for all, aeroplastics Contemporary, Brüssel
2005
Exibition and Performance: Persistent and Gradual Loss of Self-Control«, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam
Exibition and Performance: Let Love blossom with IPG, Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea, Trento
Exibition and Performance: „Orientación“ Reina Sofia Museum and Goethe Institut Madrid, Spanien
Performance: IPG, Gallery Illy, New York/ USA
2004
International Performancefestival Boston
Performance: Cleaning the House Project, NMAC Foundation Montenmedio Arte Contemporáneo Cadiz, Spanien
Performance: Loop Performance, PS1 Contemporary Art Center New York
Performance: Raumkonzepte, Marta Museum Herford
2003
Exibition and Performance: “Rituale- in der zeitgenössischen Kunst” Akademie der Künste Berlin
Performance: Women’s Art Festival 5TH International Aleppo/Syria
Performance: As soon as possible/ Performance Loop, PAC Milano
Performance: Recycling the future, Venice Biennale
Performancefestival: 4th International Performancefestival Odense, Dänemark
2002
Exibition and Performance: No Place , Ifa Galerie Bonn
Performance: "Short Play" Workshops "Clean the House/ Marina Abramovic Museum Galego de Arte contemporaneo, Santiago de Compostela,
Performance: “Body Power/ Power Play” Würtembergisches Kunstverein Stuttgart


image: Inafferrabile

Collection and galleries

collection
Elgiz Museum of Contemporary Art Istanbul/ Turkey
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal/ Canada
Museo Ayuntamiento de Pamplona, Spain
Kunstmuseum Heidenheim
Sammlung Marta Herford


galleries
DNA Berlin
Aeroplastics Contemporary Brüssel
Claire Oliver Gallery NYC


image: Living Spot

"Border Inside" Videoperformance and Object 2011

The boundaries of nation typically arise in our minds and settle in many forms, as shown in the national anthem or the flag as a symbol. The artist describes the American flag, a phenomenon that has shaped the culture and way of life of large sections of humanity in the last 150 years, reaching a point wehre the American flag was taken as an instrument of border settlement even on the Moon (1969) as a visible sign. Chewing gum is also known ever since industrialization in the United States as trademark (eventhough science points out, chewing gum has already been found 2500 years before in agypt).
Ironically, the artist plays with the border in our heads. The viewer can follow in the videoperformance (time shortend) showing the process of creating the american flag with chewing gum, inscribing a frontier in our consciousness.
In the Videoperformance she chews one after the other and glue the chwening gums on the glass. during the prosess, the american flag is developed and ends when the flag is done. this performance needs 10 hours – the video 10 minutes.
After the performance, the glasconstructions stands as object.


Duration of the Performance: 10 hours
Duration of the Video: timelaps10 min


Equipment:
1000 Chewing gums (3 colours white, red and blue)
2 m high x 1 m wide x 12 mm deep
metallconstruction for the glas that stands in the room.
the size of the flag will be around 50x75 cm.
costume, white gloves


Camera and Photos by Branka Pavlovic

"Form it able"/ Berlin Performance Installation 2010

In the space, there are different size of white pedestals fixed . The artist and the modells are grouped on the pedestals or on the floors..
Next to each pedestal are fotos of painting on musicstands, on which groups of figures from art history of the past 600 years ( for Sandro Botticelli, Angelika Kaufmann, Orazio Gentileschi, Alexander Andreyevitch Ivanov, Guido Cagnacci, Egon Schiele, can be seen.
A voice of the artist recorded on a cd, animates the viewer to work on the models with their own hands according to the paintings. All viewers are encouraged to participate. The viewer will become an active part of the artwork, while the models remain passive over the whole period of the performance / installation. The viewer assumes the role of the sculptor for the model copying the original.
Thus the viewer has not only the passive role of spectator, reduced to the consumer, but learns by mimicking.
The artist and the models stand and lie at the in the beginning on the pedestals or on the floor. Viewers are encouraged to model the characters as they do on the painting. Viewers are encouraged by the voice off to go there to model.
Two helpers in the room support by approaching the viewer .
The performance ends when all models are modeled perfectly one by one and can be seen as a sculpture park in the overall picture.


Duration of the Performance:45 min


Presented at:
Macalester Collage St Paul, Minnesota, USA , 22-31.3.2010
Solo Exhibition: Zitate, DNA Galerie Berlin, 3.9.-16.10.2010


Equipment:
6 white pedestals of different sizes, HIFI Boxes Amplifier, Spotlights, Music stands,
14 Modells and the artist, 2 helpers


Photos by Stefan Erhard

"Living Room" Performance Installation 2010

In the performance installation "Living Room" by Nezaket Ekici, the viewer discovers on the way through the forest (Sales ditch, Fürstenfeld Össterreich) 10 people from different cultures and the artist in bathtubs (Africa, Korea, Turkey, Austria, Serbia, Germany). The white tubs of our time are removed from their original place of habitation and transplanted into nature. This leads to a skuril scenario: bathing is renatured. Historically seen, bathing became was important since the early civilizations. For the ancient Greeks and Romans, bathing culture had a very high priority, esspecially bathing in public. This changed in accordance with social conventions and new technologies over the centuries: In modern times, bathing transformed into an intimate process. The intimicy of bathing can be seen as an aspect of identity formation of modern humans. With Gertrude Stein one could say: I am me, because I have a bath.
The people in the performance installation do ritual washing in nature and and seem to be a part of the natural environment. Viewers hear, smell and see the forest and the bathers. The bathing people sing or hum in their language and they splash in the foam. The name of the work is program: "Living Room”. They turned a public place into theri onw living room, offering the viewer the opportunity to look into the intimate process of bathing. The viewer can see into the bathroom of other people and other cultures at the same time and so the distinction between private and public forces to gain a new perspective.


Duration of the performance: 1h30min


Presented at:
2 Fürstenfelder water Biennale, Yahoo-Garden, Sales ditch Fürstenfeld Austria, 10.07.2010


Equipment:
10 players plus the artist, 8 baths, water system, natural products and bathing equipment


Photo: Günther Pedrotti 

Camera: Mark Haslam 

Video Editing: Branka Pavlovic 

Text: Andreas Damm 



Thanks to organizers and Kuartor: Günther Pedrotti, thanks Assistant: Ursula Schopf thanks to the models: Anna Stefanovic, Irmgard Wambrechtshamer u Sonja Wilhelm, Nadja curlew and Martin Horn , Liam Lia, O. Macus, Thomas and Catherine Reif, Robert Stuc Thanks to the sponsors: Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Institute of art in public. Space Styria, municipality Fürstenfeld.

"Defiant" Performance Installation 2009

The artist Nezaket Ekici wears a dress made of a persistend material that is normally used in the automotive industry. The material corresponds with the name of the art work: "Defiant" (German: Widerspenstig) already contains the basic message.
The red dress is studded with over 4000 individual toothpicks and reminds the viewer of a defensive fortress.
In a subtle way, the artist deals in her performance with the topic of defense, speaking about protect mechanisms, which everyone uses. If someone falls below a certain distance to another person, one reacts repelling. If someone comes too close, he can even injure himself. The invisible defensive shield, everyone carries around, will now be made visible in an aesthetic way.
During the performance the artist invites the audience to come closer to touch the dress. At the border of the dress, people will be rejected.
Standing on a pedestal, the artist takes up several positions, standing like a sculpture, even if the position causes pain. The artist shows, what it means to self-harm in defensive mode. The whole scene is projected to the wall, showing the danger of the toothpicks close up.
The viewer has almost the impression that the artist's own defense mechanism becomes visible in this confrontation with herself. The individual is thrown back on him or herself and recognizes that attraction and repelling at the same time is needed, in order not to lose oneself.

Performance:
The artist comes into the room, moving through the audience, hugging the people with her dress on, or taking hands, leading them to the dress. Then she goes to a central place for sculpturing. Then she calls some people to come to her, touching her and standing as close as possible. Then the performance ends.
All that will be broadcast live via camera, so that everyone sees the details.


Duration of performance: 20 min

Presented at:
Performance, Kunstpädagogischer Tag Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, 2009
Exhibition and Performance:, Rebelle Art and Feminism 1969-2009 Museum voor Moderne Kunst Arnhem, Arnheim, Niederlande2009,
Performance, CHÁMALLE X 2009, International Performance Festival School of Art, University Vigo , 2009
Gender Show , Goethe Institut Athen 2010
Openly, Uluorta , Antrepo Sanat Limani, Istanbul 2010


Equipment: Costume of 4000 toothpicks, pedestal, Projection, Camera, Live Conection, Spot light.


Photo by: Sortiris Karamanis

"Madonna" Performance Installation of 2008

The artist stands on a pedestal, looking over the heads of the audience. As a Madonna she looks into the air, closer to heaven than to the world. The candles symbolize the wishes of the people, carried into heaven by the sight of Madonna reaching out for fulfilment. Up to here, this is the understanding of the cult about Madonna. There are 37 candles above the artist, standing for the age of the artist. The candles hang upside down and are therefore not addressing the sky, but earth. Life has not only the bright sight for us, but also sad moments. In a quiet meditative attitude, the artist, enflames one candle above her after the other, till all candles burn. It is not only meditative, but also a painful experience, caused by the hot wax, dropping down onto the artist. The hot wax grounds the Madonna and makes her a real person, when she realizes pain. Madonna is demystified and the viewer comes back to himself, when he mentions, he knows the feeling of hot wax on the skin. The performance ends after about 30 minutes.


Duration of the Performance: 30 min


Presented at:
Performance and exhibition, "Temsilde Huzursuzluk" (Discomfort at the Performance), Siemens Sanat Istanbul, 4.3.-25.4.2008
Memories of Objects, DNA Gallery Berlin, 27.6. - 7.9.2008


Equipment:
37 white candles, white dress, white Podest, 2 stics, 2 small white candles, lighter, protective glasses, Spotlight


Photo and Camera by
Nihad Nino Pusija - Berlin
camera : Andreas Dammertz - Stuttgart

"Lifting a Secret" Performance Installation 2007

The artist lifts a secret, a personal story out of her life. Her Performance combines coffee and Vaseline as legible text on a wall surface, hence, creating a wall painting as self-contained artwork.
She writes with Vaseline onto the wall, and through dumping the coffee with a cup onto it for ours and hours, the writings become visible and readable step by step.
In her story she relates to the ceremony of cooking coffee in order to show out, that she is ready for marriage.
As a young man comes visiting her and her parents with his parents, she has to serve the coffee in a traditional way. Only if she is cooking good coffee and served, she is a good house wife and good for marriage.
She writes down her emotional critics, and her angryness about this ritual.
This is a performance installation, where the smell of coffee, the writing installation on the wall on the objects stay as relict.


Duration of the Performance: 8 hours


Presented at:
„HANDLUNG und RELIKT“, Galerie L. Fasciati, Chur Schweiz, 3.11.-1.12.2007 ;
Memories of Objects DNA Gallery Berlin 27.6-9.7.2008


Equipment:
Vasiline; coffee (liquid 50L); coffemaschine; white sofa; white small table;
ladder; metallic big bucket; blue dress; white carpet; cup


Camera by
Luciano und Marlen Fasciati

"Atropos" Performance Installation 2006

The artist did this performance first time in Sinopale , First Sinop Biennale, in the women prison. She works on the act of the liberation in an abstract way. She carries out an act of the self-liberation, while she frees herself with the help of a sissle from long ropes fastened at the roof and to the hair. She cuts off a part of her hair and in this way dissociates herself from a piece of herself. This work can be seen as a vital discussion about the question on the sense of life, that is partly characterised by striving for freedom. Particularly, because hair can be considered as a symbol of life. The name of the Performance installation "Atropos" is related to the Greek myth of the moira, the goddnesses of fate. Atropos, who is one of them splits according to the myth the fate threads of the life with a sissle. The artist shows with the radical act of the hair-cut a way out. She takes fate into her own hands and frees herself, like Atropos did. At least the act of the cutting can be seen as an attempt of liberation in itself.


Duration of the Performance: 1 hour


Presented at:
Sinopale, 1. Sinop Biennale, Türkei, 15.8.-3.9.2006
"All for one, One for all", aeroplastics Contemporary, 14.9. - 4.11.2006, Brüssel
Double Bind, DNA Galerie Berlin, 2.12.2006 - 21.1.2007


Equipment: 100 robes, Costume, Spotlight, 2 Haircutters, 2 Helpers, 100 metall hocks


Photos by Stefan Erhard

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