Nezaket Ekici, Turkey/Germany

The internationally renowned performance artist, (born 1970 in Kırşehir), lives and works in Berlin and Stuttgart. At the age of three, she emigrates to Germany with her family. She studied sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and earned a master's degree in art education at the Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich. At the Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweig she was a master student of Marina Abramovic in the field of performance (MFA Degree and Meisterschülerin 2004).

She has presented more than 300 different performances and installations in more than 70 countries on four continents, in more than 180 cities, in museums, galleries and biennials. In 2013/2014, she was a fellow at the Tarabya Cultural Academy in Istanbul for 10 months. In 2016/17, Ekici had received the Rome Prize of the German Academy Rome Villa Massimo for 10 months. In 2018, she received the Paula Modersohn-Becker Art Prize. In 2020, she received the Cultural Exchange Fellowship of the State of Berlin - Visual Arts: ISCP New York. She was in the Artist in Residency Program Operndorf Afrika Schlingensief in Burkina Faso (2012/22) for 2.5 months. Most recently she was invited from FSA (Foundation for Spirituality and the Arts) for 6 weeks in Artist in Residency in April 2024 to Charleston SC/USA.

Nezaket Ekici. But all that glitters is not gold. Videoperformance 2014. Filmed at The Tarabya Cultural Academy Istanbul Photo: Güvenç Özgür