Emirhan Akin

October-November 2023
August-September 2025

By challenging the bodily experience of the artist and the audience, their long-durational pieces dismantle the predefined ways of observing and performing, consider the space beyond physicality as a negotiation, and resist the constructed idea of time through the modes of queer temporalities. Their works have been presented in Rijksmuseum (Amsterdam), EYE Museum, Het Nieuwe Instituut, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, W139, De Appel, MACAO Milano, and Q21 (Vienna) among others.

Navigating through the ever-changing signs and symbols of our times, the artist is mainly curious about the things that are being put in places that they are not supposed to be, serving as reminders that meaning often emerges through this arbitrariness. Their practice encompasses the mediums of performance, text, video, and installation, which are translated into visual (and non-visual) indexes.

Illustration: © Carmen Gray