Nezaket Ekici

born 1970 Kirsehir/ Turkey
Performance/Installation and Videoartist
Lives and works in Berlin and Stuttgart

Artist Statement: Nezaket Ekici

The idea, the thought, the draft are the bases for the execution of my artwork. Ideas come from everyday life situations, social and cultural atmospheres. Then the idea expresses itself in the performances and installation art. As well as this, I use the body as a means of expression.

The artistic idea is expressed using the body alone, as part of the installation and within the context of an audience.

The subjects I deal with are time, movement, space, material, body, action/interaction. I try to create works of art that leave for the viewer, free space for associations and new possibilities. I take a special situation from everyday life and without illustrating this one for one; I place it into a new context.

I aim to create art where all of the elements are connected together to form a whole work of art ( Gesamtkunstwerk)

Education:
1990 1993 Degree in Layout Operator and Printing Plate training, Duisburg and Mnchen
1994 2000 M.A. Degree in Art Pedagogy and Art History, with Prof. Wolfgang Kehr, Ludwig-Maximilians Universitt Mnchen
1996 2000 Studies sculpture, with Prof. Heribert Sturm, Akademie der Bildenden Knste, Mnchen
2001 2003 Degree in Fine Arts, with Prof. Dr. Marina Abramovic, Hochschule fr Bildende Knste Braunschweig
2004 MFA-Degree, with Prof. Dr. Marina Abramovic, Hochschule fr Bildende Knste Braunschweig

Scholarships, Grants, Awards:
1998 Bursary for foreign Student from Bavarian Free State Munich
2000 Antonio Ratti Foundation, International Summer Academy Como, Italy with Ilya Kabakov
2001 Brazier's International Artist Workshop Oxfordeshire, England
2001 Project grant from Kulturreferat der Stadt Mnchen und Dresdner Bank
2002 Artist and Authors Bursary by the Else-Heiliger-Fonds, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung
2002 Project grant from Goethe Institut Inter Nationes Mailand/ Italy
2003 Bursary for Artist in Residencies , Stiftung Knstlerdorf Schppingen, for 5 months
2003 Project grant from Goethe Institut Inter Nationes Damascus/ Syria
2004 Bursary for Artist in Residencies, Barkenhoff-...