NEZAKET EKICI

Nezaket Ekici, internationally renowned performance artist, (born 1970 in Kırşehir). Lives and works in Berlin and Stuttgart. At the age of three, she emigrated to Germany with her family.
She studied sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and obtained a master's degree in art education at the Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich.
She was a master student of Marina Abramovic in the field of performance at the Braunschweig University of Art (graduated in 2004).
She has presented more than 300 different performances and installations in more than 70 countries on four continents, in over 180 cities, in museums, galleries and at biennials.
In 2013/2014, she was a scholarship holder at the Tarabya Cultural Academy in Istanbul for 10 months.
In 2016/17, Ekici was awarded the Rome Prize of the German Academy Rome Villa Massimo for 10 months.
In 2018, she received the Paula Modersohn-Becker Art Prize.
In 2020, she received the Cultural Exchange Scholarship of the State of Berlin - Fine Arts: ISCP New York.
Most recently she was in the Artist in Residency Program Operndorf Afrika Schlingensief in Burkina Faso (2012/22) for 2.5 months.