Cevdet Erek

Erek’s notable works include “Bergama Stereo” at Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin (2019-2020), where he reimagined the Pergamon Altar through an architectural construction with sound, as well as a performance program that hosted several artists’ projects. The work evolved into six different versions, with the latest fragment very recently returning to the museum’s collection and on view since September 2024. “ÇIN” at the Pavilion of Turkey for the Venice Biennale (2017) proposed a spatial program to explore memory and history, combined with a unique configuration of voices. His long-term project, “Rulers and Rhythm Studies” (2007 – ), exhibited at venues like the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, uses rulers to explore rhythm as a transsensorial phenomenon, connecting biological, historical, and cultural rhythms with musical ones. Erek also contributed to Documenta 13 (2012) with “Room of Rhythms” and “Alt Üst” at Spike Island, Bristol (2014), where he explored rhythms in relation to spatial dynamics, with both works critically acclaimed for their use of sound, space, objects, and graphics.

Erek studied architecture at Mimar Sinan University of Fine Arts and completed his postgraduate studies in Sound Engineering and Design and Music at Istanbul Technical University (ITU) MIAM. During his studies and later, he remained active in the Istanbulbased band Nekropsi. He is a part of the faculty at Istanbul Technical University’s (ITU) Center for Advanced Studies in Music (MIAM) and the Turkish Music State Conservatory (TMDK).