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Nevin Aladağ | Raise the Roof: Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt

Current exhibition
29 June 2025 - 1 February 2026
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Installation view: Nevin Aladag, 'Raise the Roof' (2025), Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt. Photo © Bernd Borchardt.
Installation view: Nevin Aladag, 'Raise the Roof' (2025), Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt. Photo © Bernd Borchardt.

The 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 installation and performance artist Nevin Aladağ.

 

In her multimedia works, Aladağ playfully and often humorously combines sculpture, painting, textiles, video, and sound. Using the principle of collage, she creates surprising connections – between art and music, as well as between geographies and cultures. The exhibition brings together around 40 works created between 2012 and 2025 across more than 1,000 square meters of exhibition space – including several new pieces shown for the first time.

 

The exhibition title, Raise the Roof, references Aladağ's dance performance that was re-staged in 2017 for the Venice Biennale. But the meaning of the title goes far beyond that work: Raise the Roof not only signifies the literal lifting of a roof but also metaphorically suggests the shaking of a building. By playing with the dimensions of the exhibition space, Aladağ explores the potential of her works and of the venue — in the artist's own words; 'Each of the four exhibition halls has a very distinctive character, which inspired us to spatially stage the various groups of works in a targeted way, allowing new cross-connections to emerge'. In her site-specific installation, Nevin Aladağ gives the idea of the Gesamtkunstwerk (total work of art) a contemporary voice.

 

Curated by Dr. Sandra Bornemann-Quecke, Institut Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt.

 

Institut Mathildenhöhe

Olbrichweg 15

64287 Darmstadt

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Works
  • Nevin Aladag, Vibrating Images, pastel waves, 2024
    Nevin Aladag, Vibrating Images, pastel waves, 2024
  • Nevin Aladag, Vibrating Images, windy rhythm, 2024
    Nevin Aladag, Vibrating Images, windy rhythm, 2024
  • Nevin Aladag, Vibrating Images, improvising fields, 2024
    Nevin Aladag, Vibrating Images, improvising fields, 2024
  • Nevin Aladag, Vibrating Images, bouncing strings, 2024
    Nevin Aladag, Vibrating Images, bouncing strings, 2024
  • Nevin Aladag, Social Fabric, many paths crossing, 2022
    Nevin Aladag, Social Fabric, many paths crossing, 2022
  • Nevin Aladag, Social Fabric, flip, 2022
    Nevin Aladag, Social Fabric, flip, 2022
  • Nevin Aladag, Social Fabric, jump, 2022
    Nevin Aladag, Social Fabric, jump, 2022
Installation Views
  • 02 2025 Na Raise The Roof Mathildenhoehe Darmstadt Bernd Borchardt Bildnr 0646
  • 03 2025 Na Raise The Roof Mathildenhoehe Darmstadt Bernd Borchardt Bildnr 0647
  • Aladag 25 Cr Dit Bernd Borchardt
  • 11 2025 Na Raise The Roof Mathildenhoehe Darmstadt Bernd Borchardt Bildnr 0920
  • 08 2025 Na Raise The Roof Mathildenhoehe Darmstadt Bernd Borchardt Bildnr 0862
  • Aladag 4 Cr Dit Bernd Borchardt
  • Aladag 26 Cr Dit Bernd Borchardt
  • 09 2025 Na Raise The Roof Mathildenhoehe Darmstadt Bernd Borchardt Bildnr 0970
  • 10 2025 Na Raise The Roof Mathildenhoehe Darmstadt Bernd Borchardt Bildnr 0964
  • Aladag 27 Cr Dit Bernd Borchardt
  • 16 2025 Na Raise The Roof Mathildenhoehe Darmstadt Bernd Borchardt Bildnr 0696
  • Aladag 20 Cr Dit Bernd Borchardt
  • Aladag 21 Cr Dit Bernd Borchardt
  • Aladag 22 Cr Dit Bernd Borchardt
  • 17 2025 Na Raise The Roof Mathildenhoehe Darmstadt Bernd Borchardt Bildnr 0730
  • 14 2025 Na Raise The Roof Mathildenhoehe Darmstadt Bernd Borchardt Bildnr 0840
  • 05 2025 Na Raise The Roof Mathildenhoehe Darmstadt Bernd Borchardt Bildnr 0662
  • 06 2025 Na Raise The Roof Mathildenhoehe Darmstadt Bernd Borchardt Bildnr 680

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