Ebru Erulku

"I like to draw, paint and photograph, imagine and invent an image", each image is a suprise - EE

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„Using the camera and the technology on offer today in a flexible way, Ebru achieves the transformation of metaphorical concepts into images. The resulting pictures, in the form of photographs, which one could equally imagine as paintings, are woven together from everyday events and those that transcend the everyday. From what is observed and what is imagined, perhaps too, from what is dreamed and what is wished for. Beyond this, a further field of interpretation is offered; it lies within that indefinable no-mans-land, somewhere between the normal and the absurd.

The photographs seem to be the result of permeable separating, separated permeable projection planes; projected on both sides from different realms. Projections from the realm of reality are mixed with projections from the realm of imagination; projections from the realm of emotions penetrate projections from the realm of reason, projections from the realm of knowledge pair with projections from the realm of intuition.

Thus, fabulously clear pictures are created. They do not document the outside world, but create and document their own reality. In this way,...

-Royal College of Art London_UK // M.A. (2005)
-Folkwang University of the Arts Essen_DE // Diploma (2001)

solo shows:
2010 Goethe-Institut, London
2007 Hoopers Gallery, London
2004 Galerie 20.21, Essen
2001 Galerie Wolfram Bach, Düsseldorf

group shows:
2014 Aeroplastics Contemporary, Brussels • Full House
2011 Hoopers Gallery (03-11), London • Spring Show
2010 MACRO Future Rome / Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Roma • Fotografia Festival Internazionale di Roma / "Bumpy Ride: The Prophecies of Photography" / (curated by Paul Wombell)
2009 Oxo Tower Gallery, London

 & Exit Gallery, (at Claire de Rouen's Bookshop) • 21st Century London
2008 Ballhaus, Düsseldorf • Phantasma
2006 ZKM_Museum of Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe • totalstadt. beijing case (curated by Gregor Jansen)
2006 Aeroplastics Contemporary, Brussels • All for one, one for all
2006 County Hall Gallery, London • Plug
2006 The Triangle Project Space / Chelsea College of Art London •The Red Mansion Art Prize Exhibition
2005 Galerie 20.21, Essen • Ratatouille
2005 Hoopers Gallery, London • RCA Summer Show
2005 Beldam Gallery/Brunel University West London • A sharp intake of breath
2004 Trade Apartment, London • Überkurator 1
2004 Städtische Galerie Wolfsburg • Warm up (class Prinz)
2004 European Parliament Brussels • Made in London
2003 Galerie 20.21, Essen ...