Ayse Erkmen - 6 in a row

6 screen prints, 2003, each 68 x 48, signed | Edition of the Griffelkunst Association, Hamburg. Ayşe Erkmen (* 1949 in Istanbul, Turkey) is a Turkish artist who works in Berlin and Istanbul. Erkmen studied sculpture and graduated in sculpture from the Istanbul State Art Academy in 1977. From 1993 she received a scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Service in Berlin. In 1998 she worked as a guest lecturer at the University of Kassel. In 2000 she accepted a visiting professorship at the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main. In 2010 she was a visiting professor at the Münster Art Academy for two semesters, where she then took over a professorship in sculpture (succeeding Guillaume Bijl). In 2011, Erkmen represented Turkey at the 54th Venice Biennale. Of the numerous artistic interventions she undertook, her contribution to the exhibition "Sculpture.Projects" in Münster in 1997, her action "Shipped Ships" at Deutsche Bank in Frankfurt and her installation "Cuckoo" in the Kunstmuseum St. Gallen are among the best known.