Exhibition
Nevin Aladağ Nevin Aladağ
MANGROVEGALLERY, Shenzhen
2020.11.6-12.26
Biography
Nevin Aladağ was born in Van, Turkey in 1972. She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. Aladağ works in sculpture, performance and film, exploring the relationship between form, sound, and politics. She lives and works in Berlin, Germany.
Her works have been shown around the world in numerous international institutions, art museums, and biennial events, including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (USA); the 57th Venice Biennale (Italy), Documenta 14 (Kassel, Germany; Athens, Greece); the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart (Germany); the Kunsthalle Basel (Switzerland); the Sharjah Biennial (United Arab Emirates); the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (Japan); the Haus der Kunst (Munich, Germany); the Hayward Gallery (London, UK); the Martin-Gropius-Bau (Germany); the 11th Istanbul Biennial (Turkey); the Centre Pompidou (Paris, France); the Sheikha Hoor al-Qasimi collection (Sharjah, UAE); the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart (Germany); the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (USA); the Istanbul Museum of Modern Art (Turkey); the Nationalgalerie (Berlin, Germany); and the Lehmbruck Museum (Germany).
Solo Exhibitions (selection)
2024
Interlocking, Max Ernst Museum, Brühl, Germany
Jamming, Schwartzsche Villa, Berlin, Germany
Refraction, SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, USA
2023
kunst findet stadt, Kurpark Baden-Baden, Germany
2022
Tuning, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna, Austria
Jamming, Pilevneli Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey
Motion Lines, Barakat Contemporary, Seoul, Korea
Social Fabric, Nino Mier Gallery, LA, USA
2021
Sound of Spaces, Villa Stuck, Munich, Germany
Body Instruments, Wentrup Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Sculpture 21st, Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg, Germany
2020
Nevin Aladağ, MANGROVEGALLERY, Shenzhen, China
Traces, Arter, Istanbul, Turkey
Fanfare, Southbank Centre, HENI Project Space, Hayward Gallery, London, UK
2019
New Work: Nevin Aladağ, SFMOMA, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA
Nevin Aladağ, Mönchehaus Museum Goslar, Germany
Exercises in Harmony 1, Kunsthal 44, Møen, Denmark (with Dorothee Diebold)
Nevin Aladağ, Teil 1 (Best Friends ) + Teil 2 (Social Fabric), Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover, Germany 2017 Fünf Steine Spiel, Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg, Austria 2016 Nevin Aladağ, Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, Austria 2015 Kontraklang, Heimathafen Neukölln, Berlin, Germany 2014 Diapason, Rampa Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey 2013 12×12, Die IBB-Videolounge in der Berlinischen Galerie, Berlinische Galerie, Germany 2012 Nevin Aladağ, Arter, Istanbul, Turkey 2011 Rallye, Wentrup, Berlin, Germany 2010 Pattern Matching, Wentrup Projects, Berlin, Germany 2008 Outlet, Istanbul, Turkey 2007 Mit Shirts, Stilettos und Teer, Gitte Weise Galerie, Berlin, Germany 2006 Nevin Aladağ, Gitte Weise Galerie, Berlin, Germany 2004 Freeze – Spin, Oberwelt, Stuttgart, Germany 2003 Freeze – Spin, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany Nevin Aladağ, FriArt Centre d’Art Contemporain, Fribourg, Switzerland2018
Muster, Wentrup, Berlin, Germany
Social Fabric, Sammlung Philara, Düsseldorf, Germany
Rollin, STUK, Leuven, Belgium
Musikzimmer, Albertinum – Staatliche Kunstsammlung, Dresden, Germany
Screen I-III, KÖR Kunst im öffentlichen Raum, Vienna, Austria
Traces, Wentrup Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Kubus, Ausstellung zum Sparda-Kunstpreis, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Germany
Marsch, Rückwand, Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland
Borderline, Art Space Pythagorion, Pythagóreio, Samos, Greece
Zugabe, Kunstverein Göttingen, Germany
Session, Wentrup, Berlin, Germany
Nevin Aladağ, Rampa Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey
City Language, mother’s tankstation limited, Dublin, Ireland
Künstlerische Dialoge I, Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, Germany
Dim the lights 6:07 min, Tanas, Berlin, Germany
Hochsaison, Arthur Boskamp Stiftung M.1, Hohenlockenstedt, Germany
Border Samling, Zeppelin Museum, Germany
In Takt, Städtische Galerie, Kirchheim unter Teck, Germany
All Over Rhythm, Kunsthalle Palazzo, Liestal, Switzerland
Gemeinschaft des Augenblicks, Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin, Germany
Nevin Aladağ, Musterraum, Munich, Germany
1999
Group Exhibitions (selection)
2024
anders hören, Museum für Neue Kunst, Freiburg, Germany
So wie wir sind, Weserburg Museum of Moderne Art, Bremen, Germany
Rug Life, Museum of Craft and Design San Francisco, US
2023
Interactions, Bundeskunsthalle Bonn, Germany
German Art after 1960, SFMoMA, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, US
Re-Orientations, Europa und die islamischen Künste, 1851 bis heute, Kunsthaus Zürich, Swiss
EVROVIZION, ifa – Institute for Foreign Relations: Touring exhibition, Athens, Greece
2022
SISTERS & BROTHERS, 500 JAHRE GESCHWISTER IN DER KUNST, Kunsthalle Tübingen, Germany
EVROVIZION, ifa – Institute for Foreign Relations: Touring exhibition, Nicosia, Cyprus
THE REMAINS OF 100 DAYS…, documenta and the Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany
Pattern. Pop and Politics in Contemporary Textile Art, Ravensburg Art Museum, Germany
Biennale Bregaglia 2022, Color Floating, Vicosoprano, Swiss
Music Rooms, Kunstenfestivaldesarts-Maison des Arts, Brussels, Belgium
ThisPlay, Arter, Istanbul, Turkey
Soundwaves: Experimental Strategies in Art + Music, Moody Center for the Arts, Rice University, Houston TX, USA
2021
Museum Tinguely AHOY!, Tinguely Museum, Basel, Switzerland
THE WORLD:REGLITTERIZED – 5. Biennale der Künstler im Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
In the midst of it all, G Museum, Nanjing China
Orchestral Manoeuvres, ArtScience Museum, Singapore
EVROVIZION crossing stories and spaces, ifa exhibition project, Touring exhibition
Sound & Silence, Der Klang der Stille in der Kunst der Gegenwart, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany
Living Together- crossing borders, The 4th Mediterranean Biennale, Sakhnin, Israel
2020 Musterung. Pop und Politik in der zeitgenössischen Textilkunst, Kunstsammlung Chemnitz, Germany 2019 Hidden Beauty, Kunsthalle Nuremberg, Nuremberg, Germany 2018 Open Spaces, Kansas City, USA 2017 Viva Arte Viva, La Biennale di Venezia, 57th International Art Exhibition, Venice, Italy 2016 Wolfsburg Unlimited, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany 2015 Herbstsalon, Maxim Gorki Theater, Berlin, Germany 2014 A House of Several Stories, Signal – Center for Contemporary Art, Malmö, Sweden 2013 Kunst&Textil – Stoff als Material und Idee in der Moderne von Klimt bis heute, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany 2012 Top View 29.53 ft., art in public space (with Beate Engl), Rindermarkt, Munich, Germany 2011 Zwölf im Zwölften, Tanas, Berlin, Germany 2010 Move: Choreographing You, Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre, London, Great Britain 2009 Zeigen, Eine Auditour durch Berlin von Karin Sander, Temporäre Kunsthalle, Berlin, Germany 2008 Who killed the painting?, Neues Museum, Nuremberg, Germany 2007 KunstFilmBiennale, Filmforum Museum Ludwig, Köln, Germany 2006 Gegenstände/Handlungsformen, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, Germany 2005 Memory Lane, Goethe Institut, Istanbul, Turkey 2004 Rendez-Vous. La Jeune Création Européenne, Centre d´Art Contemporain, Lyon, France 2003 I’m Too Sad to Kill You, Proje4L, Museum of Contemporary Art, Istanbul, Turkey 2002 Under the Beach: Pavement, Proje4L, Museum of Contemporary Art, Istanbul, Turkey 2001 Countdown, Kunstverein, Munich, Germany 2000 Café Helga & Galerie Goldankauf, Kunstraum, Munich, Germany
Fool’s Paradise, Galeri Nev, Istanbul, Turkey
Umbruch, Kunsthalle Mannheim, Germany
Kunstpreis der Boettcherstraße, Kunsthalle Bremen, Germany
Lichtparcours Braunschweig, Germany
Zoom in Zoom out, Wentrup, Berlin, Germany
Magical Soup, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany
CAD. EX. 2020. Surreale Maßnahmen für surreale Zeiten, Oktogon. Kunsthalle der HfBK Dresden, Germany
GREEN GO HOME, Hua International, Berlin, Germany
BIG ORCHESTRA, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany
Triennale Kleinplastik Fellbach, Germany
And Berlin Will Always Need You. Kunst, Handwerk und Konzept Made in Berlin, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany
Listen To Us – Artistic Intelligence, SKLAD, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Projektionen V–VII. Stadt- und Soundlandschaften, Kunstmuseum Ravensburg, Germany
Water Lines, The High Line, New York, USA
Møenlight Sonata – A homage to the starry sky of Møn, Møn, Denmark
The Playgound Project Outdoor, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, Germany
Worlds Otherwise Hidden (A Prelude to Open Spaces, Kansas City), Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, USA
„Deutschland ist keine Insel“ – Sammlung zeitgenössischer Kunst der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. Ankäufe von 2012 bis 2016, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, Germany
Ausstellen des Ausstellens. Von der Wunderkammer zur kuratorischen Situation, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Germany
Honey, I Rearranged the Collection, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Germany
documenta 14, Athens, Greece, and Kassel, Germany
Liman/Harbor, The Istanbul Museum of Modern Art, Istanbul, Turkey
Nevin Aladağ. Musikzimmer, Neues Museum, Nuremberg, Germany
@G: Nevin Aladağ. Traces, Museum Tinguely, Basel, Switzerland
Wanderlust: Actions, Traces, and Journeys, 1967-2017, UB Art Gallery/ UB Anderson Gallery, Center for the Arts, Buffalo, USA
Emscherkunst, Ruhr Triennale, Germany
Ich kenne kein Weekend. Aus Renée Blocks Archiv und Sammlung, Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, Linz, Austria
, and n.b.k., Berlin, Germany
Magie und Macht – Von fliegenden Teppichen und Drohnen, Marta Herford, Germany
Nel Mezzo del Mezzo, Museo Riso, and Albergo dei Poveri, Palermo, Italy
Performance Parcours, Art International Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
AAA: Art Altstetten Albisrieden, art in publice space, Zurich, Switzerland
Atopolis, Manège de Sury, Mons, Belgium
Springer, nochmals, Humboldt Lab Dahlem, Museum Dahlem, Berlin, Germany
Repairing the City, Edith-Russ-Haus, Oldenburg, Germany
Artists’ Film Club: Nevin Aladağ, Institute for Contemporary Art, London, Great Britain
Sights and Sounds: Global Film and Video, Selection Turkey, The Jewish Museum, New York, USA
Input/Output – Schnittpunkt Worpswede, Barkenhoff, Haus im Schluh, Worpsweder Kunsthalle, Worpwede, Germany
Rohkunstbau XX – Revolution, Roskow Castle, Roskow, Germany
Plurivocality – Visual Arts and Music in Turkey, Istanbul Modern, Istanbul, Turkey
X-Firmen Mannheim, Theater der Welt, Mannheim, Germany
Die beste aller Welten, Städtische Galerie Nordhorn, Germany
Pigalle, Pigalle Neuf Store, Paris, France
Crossing Media – Der Kunst die Bühne, Villa Merkel, Esslingen, Germany
The Unanswered Question. İskele 2, Tanas, und n.b.k., Berlin, Germany
Rehearsal of the Real, Albrecht Dürer Gesellschaft, Kunstverein Nürnberg, Nuremberg, Germany
Fuzmalu, Maxforum München, Munich, Germany
(with Baris Aladag and Mathias Modica)
Le Pont, mac – Musée d’Art Contemporain, Marseille, France
Modernity? Perspectives from France and Turkey, Istanbul Modern, Istanbul, Turkey
Re:emerge, Towards a New Cultural Cartography,
Sharjah Biennial 11, United Arab Emirates
Chambres à Part VI: Trajectoires Poétiques / Trajectories Politiques, LDAC, Paris, France
Present Unlimited, Fabrika 126, Sofia, Bulgaria
Favoriten 2012, Theater festival, Dortmund, Germany
I Wish This Was a Song. Music on Contemporary Art, The National Museum for Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo, Norway
Show Off, Malmö Konsthall, Malmö, Sweden
, and Point Centre for Contemporary Art, Nicosia, Cyprus
Various Stages – Bedingte Bühnen, Kunsthaus Dresden – Städtische Galerie für Gegenwartskunst, Germany
Beyond the Surface, KAI 10 Arthena Foundation, Düsseldorf, Germany
Im Raum des Betrachters – Contemporary works from the Sammlung Moderne Kunst, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany
A House Full Of Music, Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt, Germany
The F-Word, Shedhalle, Zurich, Switzerland
Selected Artists 2011, nGbK Berlin, Germany
Berlin 2000-2011: Playing among the Ruins, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
Move. Kunst und Tanz seit den 60ern, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
Public Abstraction, Private Construction, Kunstverein Arnsberg, Germany
Tabularasa…, Galerie im Regierungsviertel, Berlin, Germany
Eyes Looking for a Head to Inhabit, Muzeum Sztuki, Lodz
, Poland
Passion of an Ornithologist. On Myth Making, Gallery of Contemporary Art, Nowy Sacz
, Poland
Testing Stage – A Window to Performa New York, Hebbel am Ufer Theater, Berlin, Germany
Tactics of Invisibility, Arter, Istanbul, Turkey
Heimatkunde. 30 Künstler blicken auf Deutschland, Jüdisches Museum, Berlin, Germany
Figura cuncta videntis – Hommage an Christoph Schlingensief, TBA21, Vienna
, Austria
The Collective Coral Colony, Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden
No Ifs No Buts, Depo, Istanbul, Turkey
XIV Biennale Internazionale di Scultura di Carrara, Carrara, Italy
Tactics of Invisibility, Tanas, Berlin, Germany
The Knot, Mobile platform in public space, Warsaw, Poland
When Ideas Become Crime, Depo, Istanbul, Turkey
Others. Le Biennali d’arte di Istanbul e Atene a Catania, Palazzo Valle, Catania, Italy
Aussicht auf Veränderung, Akademie einer anderen Stadt, Hamburg, Germany
X-Schulen, Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin, Germany
Starter, Arter, Istanbul, Turkey
Tactics of Invisibility, TBA 21, Vienna, Austria
État d’âmes, Académie des Beaux-Arts Paris, France
Biennale Cuvée 10, OK Centrum für Gegenwartskunst, Linz, Austria
A dream.. But not Yours, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC, USA
Journeys with no return, A Foundation London, Great Britain
Un/Mögliche Gemeinschaft, Shedhalle, Zurich, Switzerland
Was sucht N. in der Naunynstrasse?, Ballhaus Naunynstraße, Berlin, Germany
The Rules of the Game, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Barcelona, Spain
The Jerusalem Syndrom, Al-Mamal Foundation for Contemporary Art, Jerusalem, Israel
Scorpio’s Garden, Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin, Germany
What Keeps Mankind Alive?, The 11. International Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey
nochnichtmehr – Handeln im unmarkierten Raum, Heinrich Böll Stiftung Berlin, Germany
Who killed the painting?, Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen, Germany
Zeichen von Respekt, Akademie einer anderen Stadt, Hamburg, Germany
Building Berlin, Kitchener – Waterloo Art Gallery, Ontario, USA
In Transit 2009. Resistance of the Object, Performing Arts Festival, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
Central Nervous System No. 2, Galerie im Regierungsviertel, Berlin, Germany
Kunst und Öffentlichkeit, n.b.k., Berlin, Germany
OPEN e v+ a 2009 / Reading the City, Limerick, Ireland
Rewind 4.0: Contemporary Video Art 2000 – 2009, Greencastle, Ireland
Biennale Cuvée 09, OK Centrum für Gegenwartskunst, Linz, Austria
The Dance Camera: locked + loaded, School of the Art Institute of Chicago,Chicago, USA
Die Städte sind für euch gebaut, Künstlerhäuser Worpswede, Germany
08 Taipei Biennial, Taipei Museum of Fine Arts, China
Here… There… Abroad…, rum46, Aarhus, Denmark
U-TURN, Quadrennial for Contemporary Art, Denmark
Worpswelten, Kunstverein Göttingen, Germany
X Apartments, 16th International Istanbul Theater Festival, Istanbul, Turkey
spielend, Arthur Boskamp-Stiftung M.1, Hohenlockstedt, Germany
Shifting Indentities. (Swiss) Art Now, Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland
Forgotten Bar Project, Galerie im Regierungsviertel, Berlin, Germany,
and Studio Maffei, Milano, Italy
Die letzten Dinge | Son Seyler, Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster, Germany
There and Here, Wip Galerie, Stockholm, Sweden
Fenstersprung, Progr Bern, Switzerland
Neue Heimat, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin, Germany
Classe de danse, Progr Bern, and Galerie Madonna Fust, Bern, Switzerland
Raise The Roof, Abwehr Performance Festival, Kunstfabrik am Flutgraben, Berlin, Germany
Summer Exhibition 2007, Gitte Weise Galerie Berlin, Germany
Identität | Identitätskonstruktion | Heimat, 7. Internationale Foto-Triennale, Villa Merkel, Galerien der Stadt Esslingen, Germany
Urban Conditions – Reflexionen über den Raum, Rathausgalerie Munich, Germany
There is something revolutionary about all this, Sala Parpallo, Valencia, Spain
Place Makers, Curators without Borders, Berlin, Germany
The Last Blue Sky, Mothers Tankstation, Dublin, Ireland
Alman Mali, Kunstverein Munich, Germany
Indirect speech, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany
Homesick, Akureyri Art Museum, Reykjavík, Iceland
Asterismo. Artistas Radicados en Berlin, Museo Tamayo, Mexiko City, Mexico
Fremd bin ich eingezogen, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany
Sequences. Real Time Art Festival, CIA.IS, Reykjavik, Iceland
Coolhunters, Kunsthalle Budapest, Hungaria
8 Tage Leibniz Rechenzentrum, Munich, Germany
Heimat als Idee, Basis, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Check-in Europe, European Patent Office, Munich, Germany
beyond belonging, Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin, Germany
Papier Plus, Gitte Weise Galerie, Berlin, Germany
ADAM. 30: international art projects through the city of Amsterdam, Smart Project Space, Amsterdam, Netherlands
SayNoProduktion, Galerie Bernd Klüser, Munich, Germany
Urbane Realitäten: Fokus Istanbul, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany
Coolhunters, Künstlerhaus, Vienna, Austria
Celebration, Halle für Kunst, Lüneburg, Germany
Coolhunters. Jugendkultur zwischen Medien und Markt, Städtische Galerie Karlsruhe, Germany
Passion des Sammelns, Stiftung Federkiel, Leipzig, Germany
urban circulation, Berlin, Germany
Non-Stop, Kunstverein Wolfsburg, Germany
Someone else’s problem, Istanbul, Turkey
Love It or Leave It, Cetinje Biennal V, Montenegro
Deutschland sucht, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany
Kondolenz 2036, X-Wohnungen, Berlin, Germany
Istanbul Vice Versa, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
Say No Productions, Rote Zelle, Munich, Germany
Sisters and Brothers and Birds, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, Germany
Along the Gates of the Urban, K&S Galerie, Berlin, Germany
, and Oda Projesi, Istanbul, Turkey
Berlin MurMur, Ecole Superièure des Beaux-Arts, Metz, France
Blut und Honig, Sammlung Essl, Vienna, Austria
Mursollaici, Center Culturel Suisse, Paris, France
20. Dokfest, Kassel, Germany
KunstFilmBiennale, Cologne, Germany
Lange Nacht der Museen, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
Entre’acte, Palazzo Albiroli, Bologna, Italy
Yaya Sergisi | Istanbul Pedestrian Exhibition, Istanbul, Turkey
40 Jahre: Fluxus und die Folgen, Wiesbaden, Germany
German Leitkultur, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany
Gestrandet, Odeonsplatz, Munich, Germany
Left a good job in the city, care of, Milano, Italy
Collections (selection)
Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, Florida, USA
Collection Sheikha Hoor al-Qasimi, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany
Sammlung Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg, Germany
Sammlung der Neuen Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany
SFMOMA, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA
Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Collection Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna, Austria
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