Azade Köker
AZADE KÖKER
b. 1949, Istanbul, Turkey
Lives and works in Berlin and Istanbul
EDUCATION
1976 - 1979 Sculpture, Berlin Academy of Fine Arts, Germany
1973 - 1976 Industrial Design, Berlin Academy of Fine Arts, Germany
1968 - 1972 Istanbul State Academy of Fine Arts, Turkey
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2018 Zilberman Gallery, Berlin, Germany (upcoming)
2016 Everywhere, Nowhere, Zilberman Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey
2015 Azade Köker, Entkettet, Project 4L, Elgiz Museum, Istanbul, Turkey
2013 Moving Spaces, Zilberman Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey
2012 Zaman Panoraması, Galeri Nev, Ankara, Turkey
2011 Third Nature, Galeri Zilberman, Istanbul, Turkey
2009 Hybrid Spaces – Corridors, Casa Dell`Arte, Istanbul, Turkey
2008 Localization, Otto Galeri, Munich, Germany
REAL - IRREAL, curator: Sabine Hagemann, Goethe Institute, Ankara, Turkey
Installation, Ankara Train Station, Ankara, Turkey
2007 Human Nature, Milli Reasürans Art Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey
2006 Remembering, Galeri Nev, Ankara, Turkey
2004 Transparency of Absence, Otto-Galeri, Munich, Germany
2002 Body-Press, Kunstraum, Drochtersen, Germany
2001 Transparency of Gardens, Kunstverein, Bielefeld, Germany
Transparency, Gallery Apel, Istanbul, Turkey
2000 Special Reports, Constanze-Pressehaus , Berlin, Germany
1999 In the Sign of Cross, Installation, Weitendorf Chapel, Weitendorf, Germany
1998 Symphony for Wind Instrument, Otto-Galeri, Munich, Germany
Installations, Intensity, Cultural Journey, Darmstadt, Germany
1996 Inequalities, Berlin Technical University, Installations in the Math Library,
Germany
1995 Installation, Wolfsburg Sarayı, Wolfsburg, Germany
1994 Installation, J.M. Kohler Company, Sheboygan, Wisconsin, USA
1990 Soil and Stone, Georg Kolbe Museum, Berlin, Germany
1984 Sculptures and Paintings, Kunstamt Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2016 Ultrahabitat, Zilberman Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2015 Minor Heroisms, Curator: Nat Muller, Zilberman Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey
Meeting Point, Kunstverein Konstanz, Germany
2014 Moving Spaces - Stadt der Zukunft“, Curator: Azade Köker, Braunschweig,
Germany
2011 Fiktion Okzident, Istanbul, Turkey
Dream and Reality, Istanbul Modern Art Museum, Istanbul, Turkey
A Selection from Elgiz Collection, Çırağan Palace, Kempinski Art Gallery,
Istanbul, Turkey
2010 Istanbul Hüma Kabakçı Collection Exhibition, Osthaus Museum, Hagen,
Germany
2009 4th Baku Biennial: Aluminum, Baku, Azerbaijan
New Works, New Horizons, Istanbul Modern Art Museum, Turkey
2008 10th Anniversary of Gallery Apel Exhibitions, French Institute, Istanbul,
Turkey
Frankfurt Book Fair: Reading Corner, Germany
Made in Turkey, Paul Kilise Gallery, Frankfurt, Germany
2007 Garten der Lüste, curator: Azade Köker, Architecture Pavilion, Braunschweig,
Germany
Modern and Beyond, Santralistanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
Selection 2007, Proje4L Elgiz Contemporary Art Museum, Istanbul, Turkey
The Blades, Gallery Apel, Istanbul, Turkey
2006 Memory and Scale, Istanbul Modern Art Museum, Istanbul, Turkey
Six From Europe, Sonoma Valley Art Museum, San Francisco, USA
Zamanın Lale Hali, Gallery Apel, Istanbul, Turkey
Gleichungen, Berlin, Germany
2005 Soul-Bezielte Kunst, Installation, Bruges, Belgium
Light Places, Installaton, Berlin, Germany
Neighbour, Gallery Apel, Istanbul, Turkey
2004 Lokasyon, Yerleştirmeler, curator: Azade Köker, Braunschweig, Germany
Body Memory, curators: Azade Köker, Kerstin Mey and Ralf Sander, Potsdam,
Warschau, Dundee, Scotland
2003 Transportale, Installation, S-Bahn Vagonu, Berlin, Germany
Beaufort, Trienal, Ostend, Belgium
Body Substance, Gallery M, Berlin, Germany
In the Forest, curator: Azade Köker, Installation, Braunschweig, Germany
2002 Bodies of Substance, Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
Second Skin, Hittisau Women Museum, Zurich, Switzerland
Identities, Places, Relations, Memories, Bodies, curator: Azade Köker,
Löwenpalais and DGB-Haus, Berlin, Germany
2001 Between Earth and Heaven, Modern Art Museum, Ostend, Belgium
Reservoir V-Aerotektura, Light Installation, Berlin, Germany
Sound and Air, Installation, Grossen, Wasserspeicher, Berlin, Germany
2000 Berlinska Dialoger, Arch Gallery & Kalmar Art Museum, Kalmar, Sweden
Body/Ego, Torso/Mind, Object/Subject, Galeri Nev, Istanbul and Ankara,
Turkey
Old Pairs, New Pairs, Kunstmuseum-Kloster Unser Lieben Frauen,
Magdeburg, Germany
1999 Art as (In)Mobile - (In)Mobile as Art, curator: Azade Köker, Halle/Saale,
Germany
1998 Round Trip, curated by Beral Madra, Borusan Art Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey
1997 Quadratur III, House at Kleistpark, Berlin, Germany
Robinson has „Sunday“, (Open Air Installation), Lehnin, Germany
1996 The Speech, Landesmuseum Volk und Wirtschaft, Duesseldorf, Germany
10 Sculptures From Berlin, Sculpture Garden, Lehnin, Germany
1994 Art Container, Installations, Suju Sumi Kankio Center, Meiho, Japan
Glindower Ziegelei, Installation, ConCultura, Berlin, Germany
4 Places, 4 Spaces, Installation, Weißensee, Berlin, Germany
1992 Explicit Material, Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst,Berlin, Phoenix/
Arizona, USA
Art and Norm, German Institute of Standardisation, Berlin, Germany
1991 Sign and Figure, Sculpture Drawings Today, Saalbau Gallery, Darmstadt,
Germany
1989 2nd International İstanbul Biennale, Aya İrini, Istanbul, Turkey
Berlin-Odense, Berlin, Odense, Germany
1988 Sculpture in Berlin 1968-1988, Berlinische Galerie, Germany
Senats of 10 Years, Purchases of Berlinische Galerie Gropius- Bau, Georg-
Kolbe-Müzesi, Berlin, Germany
The Great Art Exhibition, House of Art, Düsseldorf, Germany
1987 Turkish Artists in Berlin, Academy of Arts, Berlin, Germany
Documentation of Women Artists in Public Collections in Berlin, Das
verborgene Museum, Galeri Messer-Ladwig, Berlin, Germany
1986 Sculptures in Berggarten, Hannover, Germany
Das andere Land, Berlin, Bochum, Frankfurt, Munich, Stuttgart, Hannover,
Ludwigshafen, Bremen, Hamburg, Düsseldorf, Germany and Brussels
The Great Art Exhibition, House of Art, Düsseldorf, Germany
1985 Sculpture of Presence, 5. Bremen Open Air Sculpture Exhibition, Forest
Properties, Bremen Municipal Senate, Germany
Things of Human, City Art Hall of Recklinghausen, Germany
22 Realists from Berlin, Dominikan Church, Osnabrück, Germany
1984 Women Artists From Berlin, in Zürich, Art Hall of Zürich, Switzerland
1983 The Great Art Exhibiton, House of Art, Munich, Germany
Speculum-Women Artists, (travelling exhbit), Bremen Municipal State,
Weserburg, Bremen, Germany
1982 Art Residence, Union of Berlin Artists, Interessengemeinschaft Berliner
Kunshandler (IBK),Berlin, Germany
Portraits, Paintings, Artists, Gallery Oberlicht, Berlin, Germany
AWARDS
1993 - 1994 Employment Stipend of the J.M. Kohler Company, USA
1988 Düsseldorf Grand Prize in Art, Germany
1986 Award in Fine Arts Criticism, Verband Deutscher Kritiker E.V, Germany
1985 Darmstadt, Honorary Award of the City Stipend from the Berlin City Senate,
Germany
PUBLIC SPACE PROJECTS AND WORKSHOPS
2008 W Hotel, Akaretler, Istanbul, Turkey
2007 Aspat Art Park, Bodrum, Turkey
1997 Istanbul Menkul Kıymetler Borsası (The Stock Exchange of Istanbul), Turkey
1996 Sculpture Symposium in South Korea, Invited Artist of the City of Wolfsburg
1994 Studio Work Shop, Kyoto Seika University, Japan
1994 The Park of Wolfsburg Palace, Germany
1991 Facade of School in Barbarossa Palace, (joint project with Susanne Ahner),
Berlin, Germany
1988 Berlinische Galerie Grophius-Bau, Berlin, Germany
1987 Bremen-Nord Central Hospital, Germany
1986 Frechen Museum, Düsseldorf, Germany
1985 - 1987 Human Landscapes, Schlesisches Tor, Berlin, Germany
1983 - 1985 Bundesgartenschau, Berlin, Germany
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
British Museum, UK
Berlinische Galerie Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany
Hetjensmuseum, Düsseldorf Foundation, Germany
Hüma Kabakçı Collection, Istanbul, Turkey
Istanbul Museum of Modern Art, Istanbul, Turkey
Jameel Collection
John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Wisconsin, U.S.A
Living Museum, Schering, Berlin, Germany