Arhun Aksakal, landscape, 2020, installation view, plaster, sand, styrofoam, dimensions variable, photo: Jule Wertheimer, © and courtesy of the artist and L187


Arhun Aksakal, landscape, 2020, detail, plaster, sand, styrofoam, dimensions variable, photo: Jule Wertheimer, © and courtesy of the artist and L187


Arhun Aksakal, landscape, 2020, detail, plaster, sand, styrofoam, dimensions variable, © and courtesy of the artist and L187


Arhun Aksakal, landscape, 2020, installation view, plaster, sand, styrofoam, dimensions variable, photo: Jule Wertheimer, © and courtesy of the artist and L187


Arhun Aksakal, tears of the mountains (route 01), 2020, installation view, Carrara marble, dimensions variable, photo: Jule Wertheimer, © and courtesy of the artist and L187


Arhun Aksakal, tears of the mountains (route 02), 2020, installation view, Carrara marble, dimensions variable, photo: Jule Wertheimer, © and courtesy of the artist and L187


Arhun Aksakal, tears of the mountains (route 02), 2020, detail, Carrara marble, dimensions variable, photo: Jule Wertheimer, © and courtesy of the artist and L187


Arhun Aksakal, tears of the mountains (route 01), 2020, detail, Carrara marble, dimensions variable, photo: Jule Wertheimer, © and courtesy of the artist and L187


Arhun Aksakal, tears of the mountains (route 01), 2020, detail, Carrara marble, dimensions variable, © and courtesy of the artist and L187


Arhun Aksakal, tears of the mountains (route 01), 2020, detail, Carrara marble,
dimensions variable, photo: Jule Wertheimer, © and courtesy of the artist and L187


Arhun Aksakal, urns, 2020, installation view, Botticino marble, mirror, dimensions variable, © and courtesy of the artist and L187


Arhun Aksakal, urns, 2020, installation view, Botticino marble, mirror, dimensions variable, © and courtesy of the artist and L187


Arhun Aksakal, saltman, 2017, installation view, video, looped, 04:15 min., photo: Jule Wertheimer, © and courtesy of the artist and L187


Arhun Aksakal, saltman, 2017, installation view, video, looped, 04:15 min., photo: Jule Wertheimer, © and courtesy of the artist and L187

Arhun Aksakal, saltman, 2017, video, 04:15 min., © and courtesy of the artist and L187


Arhun Aksakal, memory, 2020, installation view, SD card, unique, photo: Herbert Fischer, © and courtesy of the artist and L187


Arhun Aksakal, memory, 2020, SD card, unique, photo: Jule Wertheimer, © and courtesy of the artist and L187


Installation view, ubiquity, invisibility and oblivion of a phenomenon, Arhun Aksakal,
photo: Herbert Fischer, © and courtesy of the artist and L187


Arhun Aksakal, nazar, 2018, transferprint on brushed aluminium, 125 x 93.74 cm, © and courtesy of the artist and L187


Arhun Aksakal, tears of the mountains, 2020, video still, HD video, 21:00 min., © and courtesy of the artist and L187

Arhun Aksakal, tears of the mountains (excerpt), 2020, HD video, 21:00 min., © and courtesy of the artist and L187

„Die Sagen, die der Erde sich entfernen,
Vom Geiste, der gewesen ist und wiederkehret,
Sie kehren zu der Menschheit sich, und vieles lernen
Wir aus der Zeit, die eilends sich verzehret.“

– Friedrich Hölderlin: Der Herbst, 1837, Verse 1–4

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"The stories that are leaving earth that are
About the spirit that was here and will return 
They turn our way again and we can learn
Much from time that wastes faster and faster."

– Friedrich Hölderlin: Autumn, 1837, Verse 1–4, translated by David Constantine

Arhun Aksakal (*1995, Offenbach, Germany) lives and works in Frankfurt am Main. Since 2020 he studies at the Städelschule in the class of Willem De Rooij. After studying geology in Frankfurt am Main, he studied visual arts in Kassel in the class of Bjørn Melhus and then in the class of Dr. Andrea Büttner. With the DAAD Scholarship 2018, Arhun Aksakal stayed in the Autonomous Region of Kurdistan at the Academy of Art Sulaimani. This was followed by an Erasmus scholarship in Venice, Italy, at the Università Iuav di Venezia in 2019–2020.

Opening : 11.09.2020, 7 p.m.
Closing: 02.10.2020, 7 p.m.

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