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5 April - 2 June 2024

Cevdet Erek

Contemporary Art Museum of Estonia | Estonia

SAHA supports Cevdet Erek’s project titled Fluctuation of Raw Techno Materials in the group exhibition Trigger at Contemporary Art Museum of Estonia (EKKM) between 5 April  and 2 June 2024.

International group exhibition Trigger which is the first collaborative project of museum curators Evelyn Raudsepp and Maria Helen Känd, features nine artists from Estonia, USA, Mexico, France and elsewhere. The exhibition is the result of its time, a reaction to the situation where we are forced to witness the chaos and elevated tensions of political crises. 

Cevdet Erek participates in the exhibition with a site-specific sound installation for the deck room of the EKKM building. Erek's installation creates a link between EKKM as a former factory building and a later party venue by creating a kinetic, sound and light based installation in the building's inclined shaft. Erek depicts the movement and transformation of raw materials and energy in a site-specific installation. The artist's installation highlights how the Soviet-era industrial-mechanical soundscape was replaced by pulsating techno-music in the 2000s.

About Cevdet Erek
Cevdet Erek, born in Istanbul in 1974. During and after studying architecture at Mimar Sinan
University of Fine Arts, Erek worked at various architectural practices as well as in the music band Nekropsi. He received his Masters degree in Sound Engineering & Design and his PhD in Music at İTÜ MIAM Center for Advanced Studies in Music. He was an Artist-in-Residenceat Rijksakademie in Amsterdam in 2005-2006. He is a member of the Music Technologies Department of İTÜ TMDK since 2011 and teaching additional courses at ITU MIAM and ITU Architecture Faculty.

About Contemporary Art Museum of Estonia
EKKM is artist-focused institution with the the aim to support site-specific works unique tothe space and offer artists the change to engage with the idiosyncratic building instead ofexhibiting only pre-existing works or organizing retrospectives. Their goal has been to presentacclaimed international artists from all around the world to bring in diversity to the local artscene. EKKM has long-standing international ties in art institutions in the Europeancountries, especially Nordic-Baltic states and works to remain in the focus of both artprofessionals and tourists.

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