About ‘Studio’, 2005, installation Open Studios Rijksakademie, Amsterdam 2005

The sound of drumming fingertips seen at a safe distance, the projection held within an enclosed room. An obsessive rhythm, both instinctive and logical at the same time, is beaten out by two hands – both belonging to Cevdet Erek. Oddly, the two hands try to beat each other at their own self-involved game. Cevdet Erek’s work is characterized by a marked use of rhythm and site specificity. Erek combines video, sound and images, often in an attempt to alter the viewer’s perception and experience of a given space. The result functions as a hypothesis, probing the viewer’s instinctive logic and thus appealing to the senses. Interestingly, Erek manages to combine rational components such as references to architecture and linear time with instinctive impulses, thereby leveling the gap between two supposedly opposing spheres.
by Maxine Kopstra, cat. 'Just in Time' Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam

Cevdet Erek (1974, Istanbul, TR) studied at the Mimar Sinan University of Fine Arts, Istanbul (1992-1999) and at the MIAM Center for Advanced Studies in Music,  Istanbul Technical University Istanbul (2000-2004). 2005 and 2006 he studied at the Rijksakademie Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam. He received in 2005 the Garantibank Award and in 2006 he received The Uriot Prize, Rijksakademie Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam.

 Cevdet Erek had shows in Platform Garanti (2005), Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin (2005), Art Museum of Estonia, Talinn, Estonia (2006), Living Art Museum, Rejkjavik, Iceland (2006), and the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam (2006).

Galerie Akinci plans the first solo exhibition with Cevdet Erek in January 2008.