Cevdet Erek

This book is published on occasion of the exhibition “Secession Ornamentation” at the @viennasecession 29 November 2025 – 22 February 2026. “Some of Cevdet Erek’s site-specific installations and sonic environments, placed at the intersection of sound, sculpture, and architecture, evolve around the idea of ‘sound ornamentation’. In his installations sound is not background but architecture itself – something built, inhabited, and experienced by bodies in motion. The exhibition is accompanied by a publication that features an essay by writer Ramona Heinlein and offers an overview of Erek’s projects from the past fifteen years that include sound ornamentation ideas. The artistic intervention consists of a poster showing Erek's design for the sound ornamentation on the façade of the Secession.” -from Secession website Sound Ornamentation 2010-2025 Format: 24 x17 cm Details: Softcover, dust jacket, 160 pages, enclosed poster (A3) Series design concept: Sabo Day Grafic design: Sabo Day Editors: Bettina Spörr and Cevdet Erek Texts (d/e): Text von Cameron Ah Loo-Matamua, Gudrun Ankele, Cevdet Erek, Ramona Heinlein, Gabriele Knapstein, Luigia Lonardelli, Eva Scharrer & Sandeep Sodhi. Secession 2025 Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König, Köln ISBN 978-3-7533-0804-3 EUR 24 Available for free download at Secession website under “Publications”. Goodsees and reads

On view at Secession in Vienna until February 22nd, Cevdet Erek’s Secession Ornamentation is a site-specific installation that explores sound as architecture — not as background, but as something built, inhabited, and experienced through the body. Drawing on Adolf Loos’s Ornament and Crime, Erek reclaims ornamentation as a temporal and vibratory structure, transforming rhythm into a tool for perception, orientation, and collective presence. For this exhibition, Erek “ornamentates” the Secession’s façade with symmetrical loudspeakers, turning the building itself into an audible surface. Inside, tactile wood reliefs modeled after Braille symbols invite touch, foregrounding bodily awareness and accessibility. Across spaces, sound becomes a shared architecture, dissolving boundaries between listener and composer, visitor and site. Part of a long-term dialogue with local histories and architectures — from Sharjah to Marrakech, Çanakkale to Baden-Baden — this project also marks Erek’s return to Vienna, following his 2010 installation at Palais Erdödy-Fürstenberg. With the kind support of Kira A. Princess of Prussia Foundation and SAHA. Cevdet Erek, Secession Ornamentation, Exhibition views, Secession 2025. Foto: Oliver Ottenschläger

repost @nekropsi__ (Eng below) “CANLI / LIVE İSTANBUL” yarın! İki senedir üzerinde çalıştığımız canlı albümümüzü konser günümüz için özel olarak 30 Ocak 2026 Cuma günü bandcamp’te paylaşacağız. Bu albüm beşinci yasal albümümüz ve ilk konser albümümüz olacak, heyecanlıyız. Ardından A.K. Müzik’ten CD ve dijital geliyor. Yarın dinlemek ve edinmek için bandcamp üyeliği ve Nekropsi profili takibi tavsiye edilir (link yukarıda bio’da). Desteklemenizi ve eşe dosta haber vermenizi dileriz. Sevgiler, Nekropsi ENG “CANLI / LIVE İSTANBUL” is out tomorrow! We’ll share our live album, which we’ve been working on for two years, on Bandcamp especially for our concert day: Friday, 30 January 2026. This will be our fifth official album and our first live album, and we’re excited. After that, CD and digital releases will follow via A.K. Müzik. To listen and purchase tomorrow, we recommend having a Bandcamp account and following the Nekropsi profile (link in the bio above). We’d love your support, and please spread the word. Much love, Nekropsi

bugün Artİstanbul Feshane’de (İstanbul Büyükşehir Belediyesi/İBB Mİras) - visited Amfibio today -23.01.2026 at Artİstanbul Feshane “From Thursday 2nd to Sunday 5th October 2025, at Artİstanbul Feshane in Istanbul (Turkey), La Biennale di Venezia presents Amfibio Sound Days, in collaboration with Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (İKSV). This marks the third leg of the Special Project by the Historical Archive of La Biennale di Venezia, titled The Wind Makes the Sky. La Biennale di Venezia in the footsteps of Marco Polo, curated by Luigia Lonardelli. The project retraces the journey of Marco Polo on the occasion of the 700th anniversary of his death (1324–2024). Following its inauguration in Hangzhou (China) and its subsequent leg in Venice (Italy), the itinerant installation Amfibio - commissioned by La Biennale to Cevdet Erek - continues its journey to Istanbul. … On Thursday, October 2nd, the programme will open with an electroacoustic performance by musicians Gökhan Deneç and Fulya Uçanok; on Friday, October 3rd, the percussion ensemble sa.ne.na will perform a composition by Michael Gordon, inspired by the muted wooden sound of the simandri — ancient Byzantine instruments here transformed into sculptural objects; on Saturday, October 4th, the MİAM Gendy Ensemble @miamgendyensemble will work with sound through an algorithmic approach in the tradition of Iannis Xenakis; and on Sunday, October 5th, the series will conclude with a performance by the Peradi Ensemble choir …” From press release by Biennale di Venezia. @labiennale @artistanbulfeshane @ibbmiras

Rampã Rítmica (2025) during 36th Biennial de São Paulo -last days to visit photo: NattFejfar / Fundaçao Bienal de São Paulo

Rampã Rítmica (2025) during 36th Biennial de São Paulo -last days to visit photo: NattFejfar / Fundaçao Bienal de São Paulo

“Secession Ornamentation” 29.11.2025 - 22.2.2026 at Wiener Secession, Vienna, Austria info and opening programme: @viennasecession Image: Sketch for Far Left - Far Right on Secession Facade (2025), CE

È il vento che fa il cielo, da Venezia a Istanbul #Amfibio di @cevdeterek A Feshane, Corno d’oro, attraversare e stare intorno #transiti #scavalcamontagne @iksv_istanbul @luigialonardelli #labiennaledivenezia @debrouge @paeasaggio @era_flacarla @ariaalquadrato @benve23 @mariagraziapontorno @fabiopacifico @bigamax foto di @italo_rondinella

@unitednations (full text link in bio) UN Secretary-General António Guterres said the results of the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) analysis were no mystery: “It is a man-made disaster, a moral indictment – and a failure of humanity itself.

Look Closer🔍️: Cevdet Erek⁠ ⁠ Cevdet Erek’s works investigate the rhythms, structures, and forms that guide our perception of space and time.⁠ ⁠ In 20 Jordan Street, Cevdet presents 'Away Terrace (Us and Them)', 2025, a new sculptural and sonic installation is inspired by the atmosphere, aesthetics and spatial arrangements of football stadia.⁠ ⁠ ⁠ 'Away Terrace (Us and Them)’ also sits in dialogue with the artist’s wall-based works which are on display at Walker Art Gallery, including an ‘Everton–Liverpool’ stadia-based diptych; a foundational reference point for the city.⁠ ⁠ ⁠ At Tate Liverpool + RIBA North, the artist presents Father’s Timeline / Babamın Zaman Çizelgesi (2007); overlayed with Father’s Timeline in English (2025). One of Erek’s first works to deal with the concept of time, it explores collective history through critical personal turning points. ⁠ ⁠ The artist has added a transparent component over the original and this new layer ⁠translates into English a selection of events from the timeline of his father – who is no longer alive – focusing on moments that might also be common to others, with specific names and places left out to allow for broader resonance.⁠ ⁠ To find out more about LB2025 artists and venues, head to biennial.com/2025 or click the link in our bio🔗⁠ ⁠ 'Away Terrace (Us and Them)' is commissioned by Liverpool Biennial, with support from SAHA Association.⁠ ⁠ Further works are presented with thanks to the Arter Collection, AKINCI and Neugerriemschneider, Berlin⁠.⁠ ⁠ [Alt text: (1) A large empty building with an installation that is neatly arranged, red bricks that look like a football stadium. (2) 4 wooden frames neatly arranged on a wall. (3) A white wall displaying an artwork in a black frame depicting a hand-drawn timeline.]⁠ ⁠ 📸: (1) Mark McNulty. (2-3) Stuart Whipps. ⁠

Away Terrace (Us and Them) [Misafir Tribünü (Biz ve Onlar)], Liverpool Biennial “Bedrock”, from tomorrow to September, at 20 Jordan Street, Liverpool, UK Photo 1: Adam Vaughan/EPA

2nd prf of çepeçerçeve today 15:00 at @m.leuven with @stukleuven part of Hear Here Live, Leuven, Belgium