2025

Secession Ornamentation, 29.11.2025 – 22.02.2026, Secession, Vienna, AT (solo)

Apparitions, 06.09.2025 – 11.01.2026, An augmented expansion of the 36th Bienal de São Paulo, WAVA App

Amfibio Sound Days, 02.10.2025 – 05.10.2025, Artistanbul Feshane, Istanbul, TR

We’ve Been at the Tapestry Studio Since the 90s, 19.09.2025 – 01.03.2026, SALT Beyoğlu, Istanbul

Biz ve Onlar / Us and Them, 12.09.2025 – 07.11.2025, Galeri Nev Istanbul, Istanbul, TR

36th São Paulo Biennial, 06.09.2025 – 11.01.2026, Ciccillo Matarazzo Pavilion, São Paulo, Brazil

Liverpool Biennial 2025, 07.06. – 14.09.2025, Liverpool, UK

Hear Here Live, 24.04.2025 – 25.04.2025, M Leuven and STUK, Leuven, Belgium

The Lives of Animals, 16.04.2025 – 10.08.2025, SALT Beyoğlu, Istanbul

Simurgh by Slavs and Tatars, with Marcel Broodthaers and Cevdet Erek, 14.02. – 28.05.2025, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden Baden, DE

Bergama Stereo – Berlin Fragment (2019-2024)

(Türkçe aşağıda)

Pleased to announce the acquisition of Bergama Stereo – Berlin Fragment (2019-2024) by Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart, Berlin.

The collection presentation ‘Museum in Motion – A Collection for the 21st Century,’ which includes Bergama Stereo – Berlin Fragment (2019-2024), opened on Thursday, September 5th, in the Rieckhallen at Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart. Other artists whose artworks are featured in the exhibition include Elmgreen & Dragset, Manaf Halbouni, Anne Imhof, Maurizio Nannucci, Ricarda Roggan, Jeremy Shaw, Jasmin Werner, David Zink Yi. More info: https://www.smb.museum/…/exhib…/detail/museum-in-motion/.

Bergama Stereo – Berlin Fragment, 2019 – 2024, Cevdet Erek
Installation view Hamburger Bahnhof, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie / Jacopo La Forgia ©️ Cevdet Erek.

The installations in the Bergama Stereo series were previously presented at the Ruhrtriennale in Bochum (2019), Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart in Berlin (2019/20), Arter in Istanbul (2020/21), the 2nd Bergama Theater Bergama Tiyatro Festivali in Bergama (2021), and the Singapore Biennale (2022/23). Check the timeline on the info board in the first photo for additional photos and diagrams of the fragmentation.

Photos:

Bergama Stereo – Berlin Fragment, 2019 – 2024

Installation view Hamburger Bahnhof, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie / Jacopo La Forgia ©️ Cevdet Erek.

TÜRKÇE:

Bergama Stereo – Berlin Fragment (2019-2024)’ün Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart, Berlin tarafından koleksiyona alındığını duyurmaktan memnuniyet duyuyorum.

‘Museum in Motion – 21. Yüzyıl İçin Bir Koleksiyon’ başlıklı koleksiyon sunumu, Bergama Stereo – Berlin Fragment (2019-2024) dahil olmak üzere, 5 Eylül Perşembe günü Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart’ta, Rieckhallen’de açıldı. Sergide eserleri yer alan diğer sanatçılar arasında Elmgreen & Dragset, Manaf Halbouni, Anne Imhof, Maurizio Nannucci, Ricarda Roggan, Jeremy Shaw, Jasmin Werner ve David Zink Yi bulunmakta. Daha fazla bilgi için müze web sayfası: https://www.smb.museum/…/exhib…/detail/museum-in-motion/.

Bergama Stereo serisindeki yerleştirmeler daha önce 2019’da Bochum’daki Ruhrtriennale, 2019/20’de Berlin’deki Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart, 2020/21’de İstanbul’da Arter, 2021’de 2. Bergama Tiyatro Festivali ve 2022/23’te Singapur Bienali için üretilmişti. İlk fotoğraftaki bilgi panosunda zaman çizelgesine göz atıp tüm versiyonların imajları ve parçalanmanın diyagramları görülebilir.

Fotograflar:

Bergama Stereo – Berlin Fragment, 2019 – 2024

Yerleştirme görüntüsü, Hamburger Bahnhof, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie / Jacopo La Forgia ©️ Cevdet Erek.

2024

2024 events:

30.06.2024 – 18.08.2024 Installation of “Çıngır / Κουδούν (Koudoun)” + Installation and reading of “SSS – Shore Scene Soundtrack (2006)” + collaboration with 2WO+1NE=2 for the performance of the aforementioned work, part of group show “All Things Become Islands Before My Senses” organized by Perasma, multiple locations on Leros Island, Greece

2023

22.12.2023 performance – solo davul, Black Land, Red Land – Restitute Interdisciplinary Festival, Studio 1, Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin, Germany

09.12.2023 performance – solo davul, Node Festival, Teatro Comunale Pavarotti – Freni, Modena, Italy

27.10.2023 – 02.12.2023 “çepeçerçeve”, solo at Galeri Nev İstanbul, İstanbul, Türkiye

19.10.2023 – 07.04.2023 “SSS – Sahil Sahnesi Sesi / Shore Scene Soundtrack” part of the collection show “Kendi Gölgesinde / In Its Own Shadow“, Arter, Istanbul, Turkey

16.09.2023 – 28.10.2023 “in circulation“, solo at neugerriemschneider, Berlin, Germany

05.2023 – 11.2023 “Akla Kara” (Black with White) (2014) part of the collection show “Floating Islands” (Yüzen Adalar), at Istanbul Modern, Istanbul, Türkiye

14.04.2023 – 16.07.2023 An expanded version -with new recording and facade sounds- of “Çıngır / Jingle / Cinkot” at “Düşler, Hakikatler / Reveries, Truths”, opening exhibition of IBB Casa Botter Art and Design Center, Istanbul, Türkiye

04.03.2023 – 21.05.2023 New work “Στης Θεσσαλονίκης τις δυο αυλές / Selanik’te var iki avlu” at the main show the Biennale Main exhibition: Being as CommunionThessaloniki Biennale:8 of Contemporary Art, Greece

22.02.2023 – 14.05.2023 An expanded installation of “SSS – Shore Scene Soundtrack / Sahil Sahnesi Sesi” part of the group show À bruit secret – Hearing in ArtMuseum Tinguely, Basel, Switzerland 

28.01.2023 – 08.04.2023 “Jingle” and the Prague version “Jingle / Cinkot / Çıngır” part of the group show “Take Your Time” at AKINCI, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

16.12.2023 – 14.05.2023 “Broken Music Vol. 2, 70 Years of Records and Sound Works by Artists“, Hamburger Bahnhof Natinalgalerie der Gegenwart, Berlin, Germany

16.12.2022 – 25.02.2023 solo, new work “A Succession of Turkish StopsTONSPUR_passage” / Museumsquartier, Vienna, Austria

01.12.2022 – 30.04.2023 An expanded installation of “Rulers and Rhythms Studies” part of the group show In a Multiple PerspectiveYARAT Contemporary Art Space, Baku, Azerbaijan

27.10.2022 – 08.01.2023 New work “Columns of Curiosities” part of the group show The Floating CollectionMAMbo – Modern Art Museum of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

16.10.2022 – 19.03.2023 New version “Bergama Stereo Singapore” Natasha, Singapore Biennale 2022, Singapore

7.2.2022 – 9.4.2023 “Kolon” in the group show “ThisPlay” at Arter, Istanbul, Turkey

“Courtyard Ornamentation with 4 Sounding Dots and a Shade, and a Synagogue” – Çanakkale Biennial

What grows where it flows

Liliya Lifanova – Cevdet Erek 01/10 – 05/11/2022
Çanakkale – Mekor Hayim Synagogue

Monitor, invited to the eighth Çanakkale Biennial to be held between October 1st and November 5th, 2022, brings together Liliya Lifanova and Cevdet Erek in the exhibition titled What grows where it flows. The exhibition, which will take place at the Mekor Hayim Synagogue that is open for worship only on certain days of the year, is shaped by the source of life with an inspiration to the name of the place.

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Bergama Stereo – Programme

27.01.2020 8 p.m.
Inside piano, electronics : Andrea Neumann
Trumpet, electronics: Sabine Ercklentz
Turntables, electronics: Mieko Suzuki
15.02.2020, 8 p.m.
The Aesthetics of Resistance

Rap Remixes on Peter Weiss’s description of the Pergamon Altar with Ayben, David Moss, and Volkan T Error
29.02.2020, 9 p.m.
DJ-Battle Lippok Bros. vs. Nicolai Bros

Robert & Ronald Lippok, Carsten & Olaf Nicolai

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Thrash softly from afar – SFMOMA

26.10.2019 – 17.02.2020
Soft Power, SFMOMA, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, USA
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Bergama Stereo – Hamburger Bahnhof

19.10.2019 – 08.03.2020
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Shows and performances 2019-2020



27.02.2020–30.12.2020
Bergama Stereotip, ARTER, Istanbul
26.10.2019 – 17.02.2020
Soft Power, SFMOMA, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, USA
19.10.2019 – 08.03.2020
Bergama Stereo, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
24.08.2019 – 29.09.2019
Bergama Stereo, 5. Ruhrtriennale, Jahrhunderthalle, Bochum, Germany
19.06.2019 – 08.09.2019
Big Orchestra, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt
07.06.2019 – 29.09.2019
Crack Up – Crack Down, 33. Biennial of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia
06.06.2019 – 15.09.2019
Amberes – Roberto Bolaño’s Antwerp, M HKA Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp, Antwerp
28.02.2019 – 24.06.2019
chiçiçiçichiciçi, Art Institute of Chicago, USA
01.11.2018 – 10.12.2018
Radiophonic Spaces, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin

Bergama Stereo – Ruhrtriennale 2019

24.08.2019 – 29.09.2019
Bergama Stereo  – Ruhrtriennale, Bochum

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