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Deniz Aktaş

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Deniz Aktaş, born in 1987 in Diyarbakır (Turkey), completed his BFA at Marmara University on painting and MFA at Yeditepe University, Istanbul. In his work he captures human and environment relations affected by urban decay, environmental collapse, human migration, and the traumatic transformation of city and nature.

Selected solo and group shows include, Permafrost (curated by Vincent Honoré), La Panacée-MoCo , Montpellier, France (2020); Seventh Continent, 16th Istanbul Biennial (curated by Nicolas Bourriaud), (2019); No Man's Land (solo) artSümer, Istanbul (2018); In Pursuit of the Present, Istanbul Modern Museum, Istanbul (2018); Impossible Space (curated by Derya Yücel) Kasa Gallery, Istanbul (2017); Wider den Grautönen (curated by Ceren Erdem), Pasinger Fabrik Gmbh, Munich (2016) and Mythologies, 3rd Mardin Biennial (2015). Aktaş participated at Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris residency programme in 2016 and ARTER’s artistic research programme in 2020 in Istanbul. Aktaş is featured in the book Vitamin D3: Today's Best in Contemporary Drawing published by Phaidon Publications. Deniz Aktaş lives and works between Istanbul and Diyarbakır.

From March to December 2022, Deniz Aktaş is a resident artist in the programme Zu Gast bei Urbane Künste Ruhr in Mülheim an der Ruhr.

Hamminkeln

The Grand Snail Tour will be accompanied by literary, photographic and illustrative artists, who will collect impressions and reflections from the same city at the same time as the Trailer is there and put them into visual or literary form. The result is a paratext on the three-year tour, a travel chronicle in the form of a kaleidoscope of stories, connections and snapshots in the 53 cities of the region, revealing the simultaneities and non-simultaneities of the Grand Snail Tour.

Hamminkeln by Erdem Teper

so müssen wohl die bäume über die menschen denken, 
der mensch ist ewig damit beschäftigt 
versteht, dass alles und jeder irgendwo
eins ist 
versteht, dass alles –  liebt und lacht und lebt in frieden existiert; stoa
versteht, dass es ist – ebenbild 
wenn mensch findet sich selbst 
vor uralten baumrinden 
ein wesen schaut das andere an, 
am ende haben beide einander
und somit sich selbst erkannt 
beide aus gerüst, beide aus haut 
nur dass der baum im wald sich zutraut
zurecht, dass er den menschen überlebt; 
während die zeit bereits 
das leichentuch des menschen webt 
und der baum schaut den menschen an, 
beide aus haut, rinde und knochen 
nur hat der neue mensch 
seine beziehung zur natur unterbrochen

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Erdem Teper

Erdem Teper writes about everything that makes Erdem feel. Themes in his poetry are often taken from philosophical and religious contexts.

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