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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