Nevin Aladag | Part 1: Best Friends

The Kestner Gesellschaft is presenting an exhibition by the Berlin-based artist Nevin Aladağ (*1972 in Van, Turkey) entitled Best Friends in the Claussen-Halle. In her work Aladağ deals with current social questions about the self-determination of identity and the hybridization of cultural spaces. At documenta 14 her work was presented to a broad audience. The exhibition at the Kestner Gesellschaft is an experimental format: in a single room the show will take place over two periods. In the first part of the exhibition, which will open in late August 2018, the themes of friendship, neighborhood, and social coexistence will be dealt with based on the photo series Best Friends (2012–2015) and the video work Hochparterre [Mezzanine] (2009/2010). In the second part, which will start in December 2018, the exhibition will change with the addition of new works.

Nevin Aladağ’s films, photographs, installations, sculptures, and performances often take place in public spaces in which the tension between community and individuality, and between belonging and alienation becomes particularly clear.

Nevin Aladağ was born in 1972 in Van, Turkey. She studied sculpture from 1993 to 2000 under Olaf Metzler at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. Aladağ has lived and worked in Berlin since 2002. In 2018 the artist won the Ernst Rietschel Art Prize for sculpture. She has participated in documenta 14 in Athens and Kassel (2017), the 57th Venice Biennale (2017), the Sharjah Biennial (2013), and the 11th Istanbul Biennial (2009), among others.

The exhibition is supported by the friends of the Kestner Gesellschaft.

Curator: Christina Végh Assistant Curator: Lea Altner