Nevin Aladağ was born in Van, Turkey in 1972 and moved to Germany with his family in 1973. Between 1993 and 2000, she studied at the Sculpture Department of the Munich Academy of Fine Arts. She has a diverse portfolio of sculpture, video, performance, photography and site-specific installations. Aladağ states that her experiences growing up in Germany led her to think about new languages, associations and displacements, often crossing social and other boundaries through metaphors and similar approaches. She often uses materials such as carpets, fabrics, curtains and mirrors in her works, addressing social and political issues such as identity formation, migrant life and cultural dynamics within changing social values. Aladağ has participated in many artist residency programs and has received awards such as the Ernst-Rietschel Art Prize (for Sculpture) and the George Maciunas Award. His works have been exhibited at SFMOMA (San Francisco, USA), Hayward Gallery (London, UK),...
Nevin Aladağ was born in Van, Turkey in 1972 and moved to Germany with her family in 1973. Between 1993 and 2000, she studied Sculpture at Munich Academy of Fine Arts. She has a diverse portfolio of sculpture, video, performance, photography and site-specific installations. Aladağ states that her experiences growing up in Germany led her to think about new languages, associations and displacements, often crossing social and other boundaries through metaphors and similar approaches. She often uses materials such as carpets, fabrics, curtains and mirrors in her works, and mirrors to address social and political themes such as identity formation, migrant life, and cultural dynamics within shifting societal values.
Aladağ has participated in numerous artist-in-residence programs and has received awards such as the Ernst-Rietschel Art Award (for Sculpture) and the George Maciunas Prize.
Her works have been exhibited internationally at SFMOMA (San Francisco, USA), Hayward Gallery (London, UK), Museum Mönchehaus (Goslar, Germany), Kestner Gesellschaft (Hanover, Germany), Albertinum, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (Germany), Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz (Austria), Arter (Istanbul, Turkey), Tanas (Berlin, Germany), The Miah Line (New York), Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art (Kansas City, Missouri), Open Spaces O18 (Kansas City, Missouri), documenta 14 (Kassel and Athens), the 57th Venice Biennale, the 11th Sharjah Biennial, the 11th Istanbul Biennial, the 8th Taipei Biennial, and the 14th International Carrara Sculpture Biennial.
