Galerie der Stadt Backnang | Backnang, Germany
SAHA supports Galerie der Stadt Backnang within the scope of Yeşim Akdeniz’s solo exhibition and publication, titled New Home, ,between 24 May – 17 August 2025.
The exhibition features wall objects and installations. Yeşim Akdeniz’s practice is characterized by symbolic narratives that reflect cultural production, negotiation, and appropriation, exploring the migration of forms, materials, and labor, and investigating the intersections between craft and industrial production. Central to her work is a distinct visual language of symbols, through which she interweaves personal and cultural references, offering layered interpretations of history, identity, and collective memory.
Yeşim Akdeniz (1978, İzmir) graduated from the Düsseldorf Art Academy in 2002. She participated in the De Ateliers residency program in Amsterdam from 2002 to 2004 and received the Peter Mertes Fellowship from the Bonn Art Association in 2005. She holds a professorship at the Düsseldorf Art Academy and lives and works in Brussels and Düsseldorf. In her art, everyday decorative and functional elements merge into idiosyncratic, meticulously crafted assemblages and reliefs consisting of textiles, silicone, buttons, ribbons, and zippers. Clothing, accessories, and elements from fashion and cuisine also flow into her works, reworking them into new, artistic forms.
About Galerie der Stadt Backnang
Since 1997, the Backnang City Gallery has hosted well over 100 exhibitions. The gallery, located in a prominent location in the city center, is integrated into the Stiftshof cultural center, which also includes the city’s Prints and Drawings Gallery and the gallery of the local history and art association in the neighboring Helferhaus, each with its own exhibition program.
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