On view at Secession in Vienna until February 22nd, Cevdet Erek’s Secession Ornamentation is a site-specific installation that explores sound as architecture — not as background, but as something built, inhabited, and experienced through the body. Drawing on Adolf Loos’s Ornament and Crime, Erek reclaims ornamentation as a temporal and vibratory structure, transforming rhythm into […]
We are pleased to announce that Lawrence Abu Hamdan and Cevdet Erek will be participating in Manifesta 14 titled It matters what world wordls world: how to sell stories otherwise. This year’s edition explores the variations of storytelling and the spaces created from it with different projects, events, performances, and architectural interventions. Abu Hamdan will […]
In his new exhibition Beating A Retreat, Cevdet Erek draws on conditions of production from a distance as the exhibition has been developed remotely due to COVID 19 travel restrictions. The global economic imbalance and disparities between countries’ responses to the pandemic thickened the borders and enforced regulations on the movement of people or goods which […]
Arter presents an online selection of video works from 15 April to 15 May 2020. Entitled #playathome, the selection features eight videos related to sound and/or music in various performative ways. Selected from the Arter Collection to be played at home, these works explore the potential of sound to trespass physical boundaries and its ability to […]
Timely and provocative, SOFT POWER is an exhibition about the ways in which artists deploy art to explore their roles as citizens and social actors. Appropriated from the Reagan-era term used to describe how a country’s “soft” assets such as culture, political values and foreign policies can be more influential than violence or coercion, the title SOFT POWER suggests […]
In “Bergama Stereo”, an architectural installation with sound, the Istanbul-based artist and musician Cevdet Erek references the form, the historically attributed function and the ongoing reception of the Pergamonaltar, now located in Berlin, and creates a new interpretation of the famous Hellenistic edifice.
Cevdet Erek will be part of Schirn’s Big Orchestra in Frankfurt. Different schedules can be checked on the website
Amberes is the latest exhibition in MHKA inspired by Robert Bolanos novel “Antwerp”that features works by Cevdet Erek amongst other artists.
In this years edition of The Ljubljana Biennial of Graphic Arts works of Cevdet Erek and Lawrence Abu Hamdan will be on view
Iterations is a new series of commissioned performances, launched with a new work by Cevdet Erek. The installation opens February 28
Alexander Apóstol, Voluspa Jarpa and Cevdet Erek are participating at the 12th Shanghai Biennale, entitled “Proregress” and curated by Cuauhtémoc Medina. The Biennale will be on view through March 2019.
Cevdet Erek has done the spacial design of Radiophonic Spaces, A sonic journey through the history of radio art, a new exhibition opening at Basel’s Museum Tinguely. The exhibition will be on vie through January 27, 2019.