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)
2024Interlocking, Max Ernst Museum, Brühl, Germany
Jamming, Schwartzsche Villa, Berlin, Germany
Refraction, SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, USA
2023kunst findet stadt, Kurpark Baden-Baden, Germany
2022Tuning, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna, Austria
Jamming, Pilevneli Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey
Motion Lines, Barakat Contemporary, Seoul, Korea
Social Fabric, Nino Mier Gallery, LA, USA
2021Sound of Spaces, Villa Stuck, Munich, Germany
Body Instruments, Wentrup Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Sculpture 21st, Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg, Germany
2020Nevin Aladağ, MANGROVEGALLERY, Shenzhen, China
Traces, Arter, Istanbul, Turkey
Fanfare, Southbank Centre, HENI Project Space, Hayward Gallery, London, UK
2019New 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)
2018Nevin Aladağ, Teil 1 (Best Friends ) + Teil 2 (Social Fabric), Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover, Germany Muster, Wentrup, Berlin, Germany Social Fabric, Sammlung Philara, Düsseldorf, Germany Rollin, STUK, Leuven, Belgium Musikzimmer, Albertinum – Staatliche Kunstsammlung, Dresden, Germany 2017Fünf Steine Spiel, Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg, Austria 2016Nevin Aladağ, Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, Austria Screen I-III, KÖR Kunst im öffentlichen Raum, Vienna, Austria 2015Kontraklang, Heimathafen Neukölln, Berlin, Germany Traces, Wentrup Gallery, Berlin, Germany Kubus, Ausstellung zum Sparda-Kunstpreis, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Germany 2014Diapason, Rampa Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey Marsch, Rückwand, Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland Borderline, Art Space Pythagorion, Pythagóreio, Samos, Greece Zugabe, Kunstverein Göttingen, Germany 201312×12, Die IBB-Videolounge in der Berlinischen Galerie, Berlinische Galerie, Germany Session, Wentrup, Berlin, Germany 2012Nevin Aladağ, Arter, Istanbul, Turkey Nevin Aladağ, Rampa Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey City Language, mother’s tankstation limited, Dublin, Ireland 2011Rallye, Wentrup, Berlin, Germany 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 2010Pattern Matching, Wentrup Projects, Berlin, Germany 2008Outlet, Istanbul, Turkey In Takt, Städtische Galerie, Kirchheim unter Teck, Germany 2007Mit Shirts, Stilettos und Teer, Gitte Weise Galerie, Berlin, Germany All Over Rhythm, Kunsthalle Palazzo, Liestal, Switzerland 2006Nevin Aladağ, Gitte Weise Galerie, Berlin, Germany Gemeinschaft des Augenblicks, Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin, Germany 2004Freeze – Spin, Oberwelt, Stuttgart, Germany Nevin Aladağ, Musterraum, Munich, Germany 2003Freeze – Spin, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany 1999Nevin Aladağ, FriArt Centre d’Art Contemporain, Fribourg, Switzerland
Group Exhibitions (selection)
2024anders 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
2023Interactions, 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
2022SISTERS & 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
2021Museum 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
2020Musterung. Pop und Politik in der zeitgenössischen Textilkunst, Kunstsammlung Chemnitz, 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 2019Hidden Beauty, Kunsthalle Nuremberg, Nuremberg, 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 2018Open Spaces, Kansas City, 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 2017Viva Arte Viva, La Biennale di Venezia, 57th International Art Exhibition, Venice, Italy, 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 2016Wolfsburg Unlimited, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany 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 2015Herbstsalon, Maxim Gorki Theater, Berlin, 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, United Kingdom Sights and Sounds: Global Film and Video, Selection Turkey, The Jewish Museum, New York, USA 2014A House of Several Stories, Signal – Center for Contemporary Art, Malmö, Sweden 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 2013Kunst&Textil – Stoff als Material und Idee in der Moderne von Klimt bis heute, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany 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 2012Top View 29.53 ft., art in public space (with Beate Engl), Rindermarkt, Munich, Germany 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 2011Zwölf im Zwölften, Tanas, 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 2010Move: Choreographing You, Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre, London, United Kingdom 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, United Kingdom 2009Zeigen, Eine Auditour durch Berlin von Karin Sander, Temporäre Kunsthalle, Berlin, Germany 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, Canada 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 2008Who killed the painting?, Neues Museum, Nuremberg, Germany 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 2007KunstFilmBiennale, Filmforum Museum Ludwig, Köln, Germany 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 2006Gegenstände/Handlungsformen, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, 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 2005Memory Lane, Goethe Institut, Istanbul, Turkey 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 2004Rendez-Vous. La Jeune Création Européenne, Centre d´Art Contemporain, Lyon, France 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 2003I’m Too Sad to Kill You, Proje4L, Museum of Contemporary Art, Istanbul, Turkey Blut und Honig, Sammlung Essl, Vienna, Austria Mursollaici, Center Culturel Suisse, Paris, France 20. Dokfest, Kassel, Germany KunstFilmBiennale, Cologne, Germany 2002Under the Beach: Pavement, Proje4L, Museum of Contemporary Art, Istanbul, Turkey 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 2001Countdown, Kunstverein, Munich, Germany German Leitkultur, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany 2000Café Helga & Galerie Goldankauf, Kunstraum, Munich, 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
Exhibitions
