2024

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2024 events:

06.04.2024 – 02.06.2024 New installation work “Fluctuation of Raw Techno Materials”, part of group exhibition “Trigger (Päästik)” at Contemporary Art Museum of Estonia (EKKM), Tallinn, Estonia

21and 22.03.2024 1. Chairing and presenting at the panel (Sonic) Impressions: “Çepeçerçeve” with Ayşe Yörükoğlu, Baturalp Özcan and Mert Alperten, 2. Presentation and Informal Walk to Arter Gallery -1: “SSS – Shore Scene Soundtrack” (2006–), 3. Performing SSS – Shore Scene Soundtrack Augmented (Carpet, live processing) with Sair Sinan Kestelli and Gökhan Deneç part of the concert program Audile Attitudes, all part of Sonified – A Symposium of Sonic Practices, Arter, Istanbul, Türkiye

15.03.2024 Artist Talk & Performance SSS—Shore Scene Soundtrack, part of À bruit secret + Les témoins oculistes Interdisciplinary Symposium on the Sense of Hearing and Sight, Tinguely Museum, Basel, Switzerland

24.02.2024 Performance “Davul, Step 3“, part of New and Newest Music Festival, Arter, İstanbul, Türkiye

04.02.2024 – 12.05.2024 “SSS – Sahil Sahnesi Sesi / Shore Scene Soundtrack” part of the group show “Unselfing“, Dortmund Kunstverein, Dortmund, Germany

21.01.2024 Performance with electronics, “Sonic” part of NOISE, Yeldeğirmeni Sanat, İstanbul, Türkiye

2023

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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 Communion, Thessaloniki 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 Art, Museum 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 Stops, TONSPUR_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 Perspective, YARAT Contemporary Art Space, Baku, Azerbaijan

27.10.2022 – 08.01.2023 New work “Columns of Curiosities” part of the group show The Floating Collection, MAMbo – 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

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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

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27.01.2020 8 p.m.
Contagious [De-Constructed]
(part of CTM Festival)
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

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Cevdet Erek, Thrash softly from afar, 2019, SFMOMA, Photograph by Zsolt Csapkay
Cevdet Erek, Thrash softly from afar, 2019, SFMOMA, Photograph by Zsolt Csapkay
Cevdet Erek, Thrash softly from afar, 2019, SFMOMA, Photograph by Zsolt Csapkay
Cevdet Erek, Thrash softly from afar, 2019, SFMOMA, Photograph by Glenn Chariton
Cevdet Erek, Thrash softly from afar, 2019, SFMOMA, Photograph by Glenn Chariton

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

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Cevdet Erek, Links Rechts / Left Right, 2019
H_Bhf_Cevdet_Erek_Bergama_Stereo_©_Mathias_Voelzke
Cevdet Erek, Bergama Stereo, Hamburger Bahnhof, 2019 Photograph by Matthias Voelzke
Cevdet Erek, Bergama Stereo, Hamburger Bahnhof, 2019 Photograph by Matthias Voelzke
Cevdet Erek, Bergama Stereo, Hamburger Bahnhof, 2019 Photograph by Matthias Voelzke
Cevdet Erek, Bergama Stereo, Hamburger Bahnhof, 2019 Photograph by Paul Frank

19.10.2019 – 08.03.2020
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Shows and performances 2019-2020

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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

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Cevdet Erek, Bergama Stereo, Ruhrtriennale Bochum 2019, Photograph by Michael Godehardt
Cevdet Erek, Bergama Stereo, Ruhrtriennale Bochum 2019, Photograph by Michael Godehardt
Cevdet Erek, Bergama Stereo, Ruhrtriennale Bochum 2019, Photograph by Michael Godehardt
Cevdet Erek, Bergama Stereo, Ruhrtriennale Bochum 2019, Photograph by Michael Godehardt
Cevdet Erek, Bergama Stereo, Ruhrtriennale Bochum 2019, Photograph by Michael Godehardt
Cevdet Erek, Bergama Stereo, Ruhrtriennale Bochum 2019, Photograph by Michael Godehardt

24.08.2019 – 29.09.2019
Bergama Stereo  – Ruhrtriennale, Bochum

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chiçiçiçichiciçi – Art Institute Chicago

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Installation view of Cevdet Erek, chiçiçiçichiciçi, 2019, Art Institute of Chicago. © Cevdet Erek
Installation view of Cevdet Erek, chiçiçiçichiciçi, 2019, Art Institute of Chicago. © Cevdet Erek
Installation view of Cevdet Erek, chiçiçiçichiciçi, 2019, Art Institute of Chicago. © Cevdet Erek
Cevdet Erek and Tolga Yenilmez perform chiçiçiçichiciçi (live) during opening of Cevdet Erek, chiçiçiçichiciçi February 28, 2019, Art Institute of Chicago. © Cevdet Erek
Cevdet Erek performs chiçiçiçichiciçi (live) during opening of Cevdet Erek, chiçiçiçichiciçi February 28, 2019, Art Institute of Chicago. © Cevdet Erek

UPDATE!!! Extended until 23th of June 2019!!!
28.02.2019 – 21.04.2019
chiçiçiçichiciçi is a performance and installation that is the first of the Iterations series that was commissioned by the Art Institute of Chicago. 
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Radiophonic Spaces

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Radiophonic Spaces, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Photograph by Timur Alexander El Rafie
Radiophonic Spaces, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Photograph by Timur Alexander El Rafie
Radiophonic Spaces, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Photograph by Timur Alexander El Rafie
Radiophonic Spaces, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Photograph by Timur Alexander El Rafie
Radiophonic Spaces, Museum Tinguely, Basel. Photograph by Daniel Spehr
Radiophonic Spaces, Museum Tinguely, Basel. Photograph by Daniel Spehr

Radiophonic Spaces
26.07.2019 – 19.09.2019
Bauhaus University, Weimar, Weimar
01.11.2018 – 10.12.2018
Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
23.10.2018 – 27.01.2019
Museum Tinguely, Basel

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