K21

Ayse Erkmen will focus on the room’s shell by weaving a textile structure into the roof’s steel construction.
The artist’s choice of a course between architectural integration and an autonomous artistic gesture both literally and figuratively places this work in an intermediate zone.
The textile element does not only change the light and the room’s colours, it also puts the dominance of technology into perspective thus creating a new “room climate”.
Ayşe Erkmen develops her works according to the concrete situations in specific places.
Spatial, formal and also social situations may serve as starting points. During this process, she uses many different forms and media from architectural and also urban interventions and objects, to language and acoustic interferences.
The artist was born in 1949 in Istanbul and works both there and in Berlin.
She has shown her work in numerous international museums and galleries. She has also participated in many important exhibitions such as the Biennales in Berlin, Kwangju and Istanbul, the Manifesta and the “Skulpturprojekte Münster”.
At the same time as the opening of the project for K21, a sculpture which was created for the roof of the NRW.BANK building will be presented to the public just a few steps away from the museum.