Arhun Aksakal - ubiquity, invisibility and oblivion of a phenomenon

TWINGO

7000 Palmen

Image: © Alisa Margolis (after Albrecht Dürer "Witch Riding Backwards on a Goat")

Witnessing Witnessing

Arhun Aksakal tears of the mountains 2020 video still HD video 2100 min copyright and courtesy of the artist and L187 — Arhun Aksakal, tears of the mountains, 2020, video still, HD video, 21:00 min., copyright and courtesy of the artist and L187

Arhun Aksakal - ubiquity, invisibility and oblivion of a phenomenon

soft opening : 11th September 2020, 7pm
open : Tuesday, Wednesday 12 – 7 pm and by appointment duration 11.09 - 02.10.2020

"The stories that are leaving earth that are
About the spirit that was here and will return
They turn our way again and we can learn
Much from time that wastes faster and faster."

– Friedrich Hölderlin: Autumn, 1837, Verse 1–4, translated by David Constantine

Ludwigstraße 187
63067 Offenbach am Main

Arhun Aksakal b. 1995 in Offenbach, lives and works in Frankfurt (Main).
Since 2020 he studies at the Städelschule in the class of Willem De Rooij.

After studying geology in Frankfurt/Main, he studied visual arts in Kassel in the class of Bjørn Melhus and then in the class of Dr. Andrea Büttner. With the DAAD Scholarship 2018, Arhun Aksakal stayed in the Autonomous Region of Kurdistan at the Academy of Art Sulaimani.

This was followed by an Erasmus scholarship in Venice, Italy, at the Università Iuav di Venezia in 2019-2020.