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Elif Erkan
Born in 1985 in Ankara. Lives and works in Paris, Berlin and Istanbul.
SOLO SHOWS
2022
Renata Fabbri, Milano, IT
Gallery AAAA, Vienna, AT
2020
Where You They Form, The Pill, Istanbul, TR
2018
What is it that possesses me? Weiss Berlin, Wilmersdorf, Berlin, DE
2017
Bag Answers, Kunstverein Heidelberg, Heidelberg, DE
2016
Ex Oriente Lux, Park View, Los Angeles, USA
Lotus Eaters, Galerie Weiss, in collaboration with Villa Aurora, Berlin, DE
2015
Standards for Living, Maison des Arts, Brussels, BE
Konzentration der Kräfte, Portikus, Frankfurt am Main, DE
2014
M.E. - I like your backpack, WIELS, Brussels, BE (two-person with Megan Marrin)
German Engineering, Mixer ArtLab, Istanbul, TR
2013
Warm Comfort, Opelvillen Schleuse, Rüsselsheim, DE
GROUP SHOWS
2022
Sculpture Biennale Geneva, CH
AS IF IT COULDN’T - 6th Year Anniversary Group Show, THE PILL, Istanbul
2021
Desilusionarium V, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
2019
What Remains Is What The Poets Found, PS120, Berlin, DE
2018
What Remains Is What The Poets Found, PS120, Berlin, DE
Work Loves Me, Lanserhaus, Appiano sulla strada della vino, IT
2017
Cum-Ex, Kunsthalle Freeport, Berlin, DE
Paroxysm of Union, Kunsthalle Freeport, Athens, GR
2016
Home, Night Club, Avondale, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Capital. Debt, Territory, Utopia, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, DE
Gut Instinct, The Gluckman Museum, Cork, IE
2015
Infamous Lives, Oracle, Berlin, DE
The Social Register, Park View,Los Angeles, USA
A Possible Collection, Honolulu, Zurich, CH
Career Woman, Holz Kohle Koks, Berlin, DE
Villa Aurora Revisited, organized by Park View, Galerie Balice Hertling, New York, USA
Cookie Gate, Ellis King, Dublin, IE
Caught in the Act, Kriya 3000, New York, USA
My, My a Body does get around, Wilfried Lentz Gallery, Rotterdam, NL
Lemon Leaves, Villa Aurora, Los Angeles, USA
2013
Soft Wear, Sandy Brown Gallery, Berlin, DE
Say my name say my name, Städelschule Graduation Show, MMK Zollamt, Frankfurt am Main, DE
Spatial Arrangements/Acting Objects, Lotte Stuttgart, DE
Home Stories, KfW Stiftung in cooperation with Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Frankfurt am Main, DE
2012
Just, in the framework of Parliament der Dinge, Leonhardi Kulturprojekte e.V. Frankfurt am Main,DE
BCC # 10 - The GAP, Theologische Hochschule Sankt Georgen, Frankfurt am Main, DE
2011
Corso Aperto, Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Como, IT
Pereusel, NoMad Project Display Kunstverein Frankfurt am Main, DE
Superposition, Beige Cube, Frankfurt am Main, DE
Presentations Winterschool Middle East, Kuwait City, KW
2010
Ginger and the Hood, Meran, IT
2011
NoMad: Helen Demisch, Elif Erkan and Christa Naher, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankurt, DE
AWARDS & GRANTS
2020
Hessiche Kulturstiftung, Paris Studio Residency
2016
Villa Aurora Berlin Fellow 2015 DAAD Travel Grant, USA
2015
DAAD Travel Grant, USA
2014
Fulbright Grant
2013
SAHA Grant for Artistic Production
2013
Stylepark Prize, Rundgang Städelschule
RESIDENCIES
2014
WIELS Residency Program, Brussels, BE
2011
Dream Seminar II with Susan Hiller, Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Como, IT
Winterschool Middle East, Kuwait City, KW
PRESS (Selected)
2016
Aria Dean, Critic’s Pick: Ex Oriente Lux, Park View Los Angeles, Artforum.com
William Kherbek, Flash Art Review: Lotus Eaters, Weiss Berlin, Issue 308, May 2016
2015
Horst, Aaron, “Review: ‘The Social Register’ at Park View,” Contemporary Art Review LA, September 30 “Villa Aurora Revisited at Balice Hertling,” Contemporary Art Daily, August 16
Linnert, Nicolas, “Critic’s Pick: ‘Villa Aurora Revisited,’” Artforum.com, August 7
“Elif Erkan: ‘Konzentration der Kräfte’ at Portikus, Frankfurt,” Mousse online, January 10
Suela J. Cennet on Elif Erkan, Istanbul Art News, December 2015.
PUBLICATIONS
2018
Work Loves Me, Eau et Gaz, Exhibition Catalog, Eppan, Alto Aldige, IT
2016
Das Kapital: Debt, Territoy, Utopia. Exhibition Catalog, Hamburger Bahnhof, Verlag Kettler, 2016.
Gut Instinct, The Gluckman, Exhibition Catalog, Cork, IE
2013
Home Stories, KfW Stiftung in cooperation with Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Frankfurt am Main,DE
2013
Catalogue for BCC # 10 - The GAP, published by Phillip Zach
2011
Wolves and Peasants 38% Notes 38% No Title 19% Dreamers 4%, Mousse Publishing, published for the 17th Advanced Course in Visual Arts of Fondazione Antonio Ratti
EDUCATION
2016
MFA Otis College or Art and Design, Los Angeles, USA
2013
HfBK Städelschule Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Meisterschülerin Willem de Rooij