

KEAZ [Kiez]
The group show KEAZ [Kiez] took place from the 14th - 16th April as a Pop-Up-Event in the Bale Innsbruck.
The word Kiez in German is mainly used in Berlin and refers to the smallest district of the city with its own infrastructure and centre of life - a small universe of its own, where big stories of unknown faces rub against each other, cross over, get entangled and perhaps divide again. Similarly, the exhibition produces and reproduces a small organism in which the realities of young people's lives in Innsbruck inevitably intertwine.
Inspired by the children's game the Thelephone, 23 artists were invited to follow two strands of interpretation starting from a single original text, each translating the previous medium into a new genre. Thus painting is followed by sound, sound by prose and prose by sculpture without knowing the original work. Although Wie aus einem Ort ein Nicht-Ort wird marks the beginning of this development and is therefore inherent to every work of art, the diversity of the collection shows how diverse and multifaceted even a small town like Innsbruck can be, due to the subjective perception of the individual.
Çağla Erdemir, along other artists, submitted a painting called Rausch for the exhibition.
The exhibition was on show at the Bale from 14 April - 16 April 2023.
The opening took place on Friday, 29 July 2022, at 04:00pm.


Çağla Erdemir in front of the series "Blurry Faces" (left) and the painting Untitled (You Don't Even Remember) (right).

Exhibition view

Ambiguous Identities
during the DocumentaFifteen
In the time of 29th July – 03rd August 2022, Kulturbahnhof Kassel opened its doors to show the works of the artist Çağla Erdemir.
In the exhibition Ambiguous Identities Çağla Erdemir spans an entwined narrative about the question of identity. Having a deconstructive practice as her starting point, the artist opens up emotionally approachable spaces in her works, in which the private personal becomes public or even political.
To show the constructive composition of identities without denying their formative significance, Erdemir uses her paintings to merge boundaries, subvert responses and tie anchor points between the self and emotionally charged, traumatic experiences. Her evocative paintings satisfy with sensitivity and subtlety, while inviting visitors to position themselves in the stories bent by poetry and metaphorics.
Çağla Erdemir (b. 1997, Austria) works and lives as an art historian and artist between Berlin and Innsbruck.
The exhibition was on show at the Kulturbahnhof Kassel from 29 July - 03 August 2022. Opening hours: 11-19h.
The opening took place on Friday, 29 July 2022, at 08:30pm.



Credits Photo: Roberta Hofer. https://tirol.orf.at/stories/3120489/ Samuel Rimml (Verein Eurokrom), Marlies Spitzer, Çağla Erdemir, Sara Latta, Andreas Bramböck

Group-Exhibition, August 2021
It is undeniable that after the crises of pandemic, people of Innsbruck - the city, which is well-known as a student city - were in search for new strands of art and culture.
The newly founded collective €uroKrom was quick to respond precisely to this search. On 10th of September 2021 they presented an exhibition showing works of young Tyrolean artists, including Andreas Bramböck, Çağla Erdemir, Sara Latta and Marlies Spitzer. They all agreed that after such a crises art was the way to bring people back into a more vibrant way of life.
Occupying the old Hungerburg valley station was thus a sign keeping abandoned sites reviving.
Creating a surreal-abstract atmosphere inside, the artist definitely achieved their goal, reaching not only young people but also different age groups.