Cevdet Erek

Cevdet Erek (born 1974) is a Turkish artist and musician. Cevdet Erek was the recipient of the 2012.

Erek studied architecture at Mimar Sinan University of Fine Arts, while working at various architectural practices as well as in the music band Nekropsi. He left the master's program he had started at MSU for Istanbul Technical University's Center for Advanced Studies in Music (MIAM), where he studied Sound Engineering and Design and worked as a research assistant from 2002 to 2011. Erek was an artist in residence at Rijksakademie in Amsterdam between 2005-2006.

Erek participated in dOCUMENTA (13)) in 2012 with "Raum der Rhythmen" [Room of Rhythms]. Volumes of the same study was shown as “A Room of Rhythms - Otopark” in the 14th Istanbul Biennial (2015) and as "Room of Rhythms - Curva" at MAXXI in Rome as part of the exhibition "Open Museum Open City]” (2014). Implementations of “Courtyard Ornamentation” series were shown in 11th Sharjah Biennial (2013), then in Marrakech Bienniale 5 (2014). "Rulers and Rhythm Studies" were presented in the Stedelijk Museum collection in Amsterdam as well as the 12th Istanbul Biennial and 7th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art in Brisbane. Solo exhibitions of his work were organized by Spike Island in Bristol, UK, in 2014 and (2012) at the Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland in 2012.

Erek was responsible for the sound and music direction for Kaan Müjdeci's feature-length film “Sivas” (71st Venice Film Festival - Special Jury Prize, 2014), and music and sound co-design (with Cenker Kökten) for Emin Alper’s feature-length film “Abluka / Frenzy” (72nd Venice Film Festival - Special Jury Prize, 2015).

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