Nevin Aladag b. 1972
Nevin Aladağ (b. 1972, Van, Turkey, lives and works in Berlin, Germany) is a Professor of Interdisciplinary Artistic Work at the University of Fine Arts in Dresden. In her multidisciplinary works, which include sculpture, video, performance, and sound, Aladağ explores the relationship between cultures, traditions, and geographies. The artist skillfully intertwines diverse cultural narratives and artistic expressions, delving into themes of identity, community, and the interaction between sound and space.
Nevin Aladağ has participated in various biennials, including; documenta 14 in Kassel and Athens, the 57th Venice Biennale, the 11th Sharjah Biennial, the 11th Istanbul Biennial, and the 8th Taipei Biennial. Notable solo exhibitions include SCAD Museum, Savannah; Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg; Hayward Gallery, London; SFMOMA, San Francisco; Mönchehaus Museum, Goslar; Kestnergesellschaft, Hanover; Sammlung Philara, Düsseldorf; Albertinum - Staatliche Kunstsammlung Dresden; Museum Villa Stuck, Munich and Max Ernst-Museum, Brühl. Aladağ's works are held in various international collections, including; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Sheikha Hoor al-Qasimi, Sharjah; Thyssen Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna; Vehbi Koc Foundation, Istanbul; DeKaBank, Frankfurt; European Investment Bank Art Collection, Luxembourg; Harn Museum of Art, Miami; He Art Museum, Guangdong; Istanbul Modern; K11 Art Foundation, Hong Kong; Kunsthalle Hamburg; Kunsthalle Karlsruhe; Kunsthalle Mannheim; Kunstmuseum Stuttgart; Kunstsammlung NRW, Düsseldorf; Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg; Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz; Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna; Museum Ostwall; Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich; Sammlung zeitgenössische Kunst des Bundes, Bonn; Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin; Sammlung Philara, Düsseldorf; Sammlung Wemhöner, Berlin; SFMoMA, San Francisco and Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich.
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Vibrating Images, bouncing strings
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Vibrating Images, improvising fields
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Vibrating Images, pastel waves
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Vibrating Images, swinging colors
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Vibrating Images, thundergong
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Vibrating Images, windy rhythm
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Pattern Kinship Cloud, break of dawn
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Pattern Kinship Cloud, twilight
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Pattern Kinship, Bubbles, dandelions
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Pattern Kinship, Cloud
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Pattern Kinship, Bubbles, ping-pong
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Pattern Kinship, Screen, Sunlight
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Pattern Kinship, long path in the forest
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Pattern Kinship, many traces in the forest
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Pattern Kinship, Screen, Starlight
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Pattern Kinship, Screen, Moonlight (Musterverwandtschaft, Screen, Moonlight)
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Pattern Kinship, flow
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Pattern Kinship, blossom
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Pattern Kinship, pollen
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Social Fabric, floating leaves
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Social Fabric, leaves
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Social Fabric, arch
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Social Fabric, right round
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Social Fabric, South West
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Social Fabric, Noise II
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Social Fabric, petrol #1
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Social Fabric, Noise I
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Social Fabric, Percussion
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Social Fabric, flower power
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Social Fabric, cosmos
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Social Fabric, blue petrol yellow
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Pattern Matching (blue-white)
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Pattern Matching Grey Beige
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Pattern Matching Blue
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Sound-Teppich
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Public Resonator
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Chair Lyra (from the Ensemble 1 Music Room, Athens)
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Armchair Concert Guitar (from the series Music Room, Berlin)
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Corner-Bells (Eck-Glocken)
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Corner-Cello (Eck-Cello)
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Corner-Drum (Eck-Trommel)
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Corner-Harp (Eck-Harfe)
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Flower Wall, red
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Flower Wall, spring
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Jali Arrow 1
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Jali Arrow 2
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Jali Rose 1
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Jali Pinwheel
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Color Floating, blue green
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Color Floating, yellow red
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Color Floating, blue green
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Leaning Wall (21)
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Resonator Wind
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Table Santouri (from the Ensemble 1 Music Room, Athens)
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Umbrella Stand Drum (from the series Music Room, Berlin)
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Side Table Chimes (from the series Music Room, Berlin)
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Music Room Athens, Couch Flamenco Guitar and Mandolin
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Stiletto / Drunk in Love, 6:21 min (Performance "Raise the Roof", Venice Biennial 2017, May 9th 2017, 12 pm)
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Teppichball #25 (carpet ball #25)
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Teppichball # 62 (carpet ball #62)
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Teppichball # 56 (carpet ball #56)
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Teppichball # 31 (carpet ball #31)
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Makramé, current flow 2
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Makramé, current flow 1
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Rehearsal XVI
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Rehearsal XV
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Rehearsal X
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Rehearsal VI
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Screen III
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Screen II
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Showroom Presentation | WENTRUP II
11 September - 1 November 2025 Wentrup IIOn the occasion of Berlin Art Week 2025, and alongside Dein Gesicht in meinen Händen , Magnus Plessen's first solo exhibition with the gallery, we are pleased to unveil a...Read more -
Nevin Aladağ | Raise the Roof
Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt 29 June 2025 - 1 February 2026The Institut Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt is dedicating the first major solo exhibition of a contemporary artist in its historic exhibition building since its reopening in September 2024, to the internationally renowned...Read more -
20 Years – An Anniversary Show
WENTRUP, Berlin 13 September - 16 November 2024 Wentrup -
Vierte Hängung
27 August - 26 November 2022 Wentrup am FeenteichWe are pleased to present the fourth group exhibition at WENTRUP am Feenteich, featuring works by Nevin Aladağ , Hicham Berrada, Miriam Böhm, Jenny Brosinski, Gregor Hildebrandt, Wyatt Kahn, and...Read more -
Dritte Hängung
26 March - 14 August 2022 Wentrup am FeenteichWentrup is pleased to present the third group exhibition at WENTRUP am Feenteich, featuring works by Nevin Aladag, Jenny Brosinski, Anna Fasshauer, Günther Förg, Gregor Hildebrandt, Olaf Metzel, Gerold Miller,...Read more -
Nevin Aladağ | Body Instruments
10 September - 16 October 2021 WentrupWENTRUP is pleased to present Nevin Alada ğ ’s fifth solo show at the gallery. An unexpected appearance of sound is characteristic of Nevin Alada ğ ’s works. In the...Read more -
Group Presentation | Wentrup am Feeinteich
22 August - 31 October 2021 Wentrup am FeenteichHoused in a three-storey mansion with an outdoor sculpture garden, Wentrup am Feenteich will be a unique destination for art collectors, professionals and enthusiasts from across the world that fosters...Read more -
Group Exhibition | Tell Me a Tale
9 - 13 September 2020 Wentrup IIWentrup is pleased to present the group exhibition, Tell me a Tale , during Berlin’s Gallery Weekend in external rooms close to the gallery. Taken from the eponymous 2012 track...Read more -
Zoom In Zoom Out
7 May - 18 July 2020 WentrupA group exhibition during the first COVID-19 lockdown, including Nevin Aladag, Hicham Berrada, Miriam Böhm, Louisa Clement, Mariechen Danz, Axel Geis, Thomas Grünfeld, Karl Haendel, Gregor Hildebrandt, John McAllister, Florian...Read more -
Nevin Aladag | Muster
28 April - 16 June 2018 WentrupNevin Aladağ presents her fourth solo exhibition at WENTRUP with two new series - Social Fabric and Jali. In her new works entitled Social Fabric, Nevin Aladağ ‘constructs’ colourful composite...Read more -
Nevin Aladag | Traces
6 June - 30 July 2015 WentrupTraces, Nevin Aladag’s latest solo show at WENTRUP, is named for her new 3-channel video work, which is also on view concurrently at the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart. On three separate projection...Read more -
Accrochage
31 - 26 January 2015 Wentrup -
Nevin Aladag | Session
26 April - 8 June 2013 WentrupWe are pleased to announce the exhibition Session with Nevin Aladağ, which will open on 26 April at Wentrup as part of Gallery Weekend Berlin. The artist will show works...Read more -
Nevin Aladag | Pattern Matching
13 November - 22 December 2011 Wentrup -
Nevin Aladag | Rallye
3 September - 1 October 2011 WentrupWe are pleased to announce the exhibition Rallye with works by Nevin Aladag, which will open on 2 September at the gallery. After a project show with Wentrup last year,...Read more
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Nevin Aladag – RugLife
The Museum of Craft and Design (MCD), San Francisco, US14 Dec 2024 – 20 Apr 2025, 14 December 2024 -
Nevin Aladag – Das rollende Tamburin
Kunstmuseum Magdeburg, DE10 Nov 2024 – 09 Feb 2025, 10 November 2024 -
Nevin Aladag – Interlocking
Max Ernst Museum Brühl10 Mar – 30 June 2024, 10 March 2024 -
Nevin Aladag – Jamming
Schwartzsche Villa, Berlin, DE8 Sep 2023 – 3 Mar 2024, 8 September 2023 -
Nevin Aladag – Refraction
SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, USA16 Aug 2023 – 15 Jan 2024, 16 August 2023 -
Nevin Aladag – Public Resonator
Kurhaus und Kurgarten Baden-Baden, DE15 Jul – 3 Sep 2023, 15 July 2023 -
Nevin Aladag – Sound of Spaces
Villa Stuck, Munich, DE28 Oct 2021 – 13 Mar 2022, 28 October 2021 -
Nevin Aladag – Musikzimmer
Documenta, Athens, GR10 Oct 2017, 10 October 2017 -
Nevin Aladag – La Biennale di Venezia
Venice, IT13 May 2017 -
Nevin Aladag – Color Floating
Sculpturepark in Zwönitz, DE (as part of the European Capital of Culture 2025, Chemnitz)22 Jun 2016, 22 June 2016 -
Nevin Aladag – Marsch
Knusthalle Basel, CH14 Jun 2014 – 21 Jun 2015, 14 June 2014
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Art, Sound, Body – Nevin Aladağ’s Raise the Roof at the Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt
Solo exhibition by Nevin Aladağ 29 June – 1 Feb 2026From June 29, 2025 to February 1, 2026, the Institut Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt will be presenting a solo exhibition of the internationally renowned installation and performance...Read more -
RUGLIFE | Museum of Craft and Design, San Francisco
Group show featuring Nevin Aladag 7 Dec 2024 – 20 Apr 2025Support for RugLife is made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services. The Museum of Craft and Design’s exhibitions and programs...Read more -
Wentrup at Art Basel Miami Beach
3 December 2024WENTRUP is pleased to present a dialogue among four female artists: Nevin Aladağ, Phoebe Boswell, Desire Moheb-Zandi, and Anastasia Samoylova. Despite their unique perspectives and...Read more -
Nevin Aladag has been awarded the Kurt Schwitters Preis 2026
Award 28 October 2024We are delighted to announce that Nevin Aladag has been awarded the Kurt Schwitters Prize 2026, endowed with €30,000. The Niedersächsische Sparkassenstiftung [Lower Saxony Savings...Read more -
Made in Germany? Art and Identity in a Global Nation | Harvard Art Museum, Cambridge
Group show featuring Nevin Aladag 13 Sep 2024 – 5 Jan 2025Discover an array of artworks that transcend borders and spotlight the complexities of modern German identity. Made in Germany? Art and Identity in a Global...Read more -
Made in Germany? Art and Identity in a Global Nation
Publication featuring Nevin Aladag 10 September 2024Made in Germany? Art and Identity in a Global Nation addresses important questions of contemporary art and belonging in Germany from the 1980s, when discussions...Read more