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Anke Eilergerhard, Berlin based artist, is celebrated by critics for her worldwide unique, often humorous artistic stance. Her œuvre is cross-media, starting with painting, photography and video. She has become known for her sculptures, which are presented in numerous museums and at international art fairs. These balance virtuously between the boundaries of concrete sculpture, abstraction and figurative sculpture. They immediately catch the eye because of their daring compositions and their tactile and often intensely colored surfaces. Her trademark is the „Cream Hood“ out of Polyorganosiloxane.

"My observations and experiences are the basis of each of my works. For me, it is about making things visible that I cannot formulate in words, but are nonetheless universal. A layer cake with a whipped-cream swirl is a piece of heaven on earth. For me, the whipped-cream swirl is the perfect sculptural form. It has something cosmic about it. It reflects the yearning for Paradise. We live in an extremely visually fixated society, no sense can be deceived as thoroughly as the sense of vision.”
Anke Eilergerhard.
The cake, as a metaphor for beauty, time, balance, longing, desire and deception, has had a prominent place in Eilergerhard's artistic work for more than three decades. She often works in cycles that pile up layer upon layer, almost biographically. Since 2004, she has focused on the sculptural form of the cream topping. From this she has developed her special artistic technique. Like a confectioner, she manually sculpts countless "cream hoods" from highly pigmented polyorganosiloxane (silicone) into a sculpture. Polyorganosiloxane, which is popular with DIY enthusiasts and plastic surgeons alike for correcting blemishes in appearance, is also the perfect art material for the artist in this context, in addition to its material nature. Yet it is an elaborate act of creation to precisely sculpt individual "cream hoods" en miniature by hand. In Eilergerhard's latest works, with the title „BEETWEEN HEAVEN & EARTH, Istanbul“ and „KRAFTWERK (POWER WORK)“, although using the "vocabulary" typical of her work, strikingly new "texts" have emerged.
In 1994, she completed her artistic studies in communication design at Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Germany. In 1999 she moved to Berlin, Germany. 2017, the artist's spectacular sculptures achieved international renown, which she had created on behalf of Fendi for the luxury brand's global flagship stores in New York, Paris, Milan, Berlin, Dubai, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Rome and Shanghai.
Anke Eilergerhard's artworks are exhibited and collected worldwide, including Abu Dhabi, Canada, Chile, China, Dubai, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, India, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, the Principality of Liechtenstein, Spain, South Africa, Switzerland, Turkiye, the United Kingdom and the United States.

Ardan Özmenoğlu, Contemporary Artist and Academic. Born in 1979 in Turkey, Ardan Özmenoğlu obtained her BFA as well as her MFA in the Department of Art, Design, and Architecture from Bilkent University, Ankara. She was an Artist in Residence at Kala art Institute in Berkeley, Ateliergemeinschaft Milchhof e.V. Berlin, Frans Maserell Centrum in Belgium, Kulturkontakt Austria in Vienna, and Glasstress in Murano, Venice. Her exhibition "Oblici Ljubavi / Forms of Love," which was highlighted in 2024, was shown at the Gradski Muzej Krizevci in Križevci, Croatia. Her recent work consists of site-specific installations combining screenprints in various formats and on different media and materials such as glass, neon tubes and lights as well as post-it notes. Playing with the formats of printmaking and sculpture she creates three dimensional, almost architectural shapes. Her works can be found in important collections worldwide, such as the Hort Collection NYC, Naked Heart Foundation, the Frankfurt Airport Collection, the Osthaus Museum Hagen Collection, the Kala Art Institute Collection, the Borusan Contemporary Art Collection, the UniCredit Bank Art collection, the Foundation Jan Michalski Collection, the Imoga Mundi (Benetton) Collection and the Istanbul Modern Collection.
One of the striking features of Özmenoğlu’s oeuvre is her use of images of both Turkish and global popular culture, as well as commonly used colloquial expressions, that the artist reverses into self-ironic, sometimes even critical statements. Her neon sign sculptures are either letterings of expressions used in everyday language in Turkish, or, if more figurative in nature, they portray simple objects one might find in their own home, such as a vase of flowers or a coat rack with hangers. Özmenoğlu captures the fast changing, chaotic, and sometimes burdening reality of our present-day world. The information overload, the multi-facetted realities created by digitalization, she captures it all in sometimes almost endearing manner, yet always with an ironic subtext. Though arguably biographical in nature, Ardan Özmenoğlu sets an universal example of the artistic examination of national and cultural identity, individuality, and collective visual memory.
Ardan Özmenoğlu lives and works in Yeniköy, Istanbul.

Daniele Sigalot was born in Rome, in 1976. He started his creative career in the advertising field, working for leading agencies in Italy, Spain and the UK. In 2007 he left the agency Saatchi & Saatchi London to fully dedicate himself to an artistic project he had founded with Fabio La Fauci in 2005 called ‘Blue & Joy’- The project’s name became a nom de plume of the Sigalot/La Fauci duo, a collaboration which continued until 2013. One year later the duo dissolved their artistic and creative partnership and Daniele Sigalot went on to pursue a solo career, focusing on mixed media installations. At the heart of his working process and conception lies the ambiguity between the physical nature and the perception of the materials he uses.
His work is as much illusional as it is ironic. In 2022 he debuted with the solo show “Master of Mistakes” at the National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rome. Sigalot ran a workshop in Berlin between 2010 and 2018, which he almost self-ironically called “La Pizzeria”. In January 2019, he moved his studio to Naples. As of January 2023, he moved “La Pizzeria” to Rome, where he has since then been living and working. In 2024, Daniele Sigalot curated a dual exhibition of Paolo Angelucci and Lennart Brede, titled The Algorithm Told Me So, at KA32 Gallery in Berlin.

Ertuğrul Güngör (1994, Kütahya) & Faruk Ertekin (1994, Kütahya)
Ertuğrul Güngör graduated from Kütahya Fine Arts High School Painting Department. He studied at Akdeniz University, Faculty of Fine Arts, Department of Ceramics. He continues his master's degree in ceramics at the same university.
Faruk Ertekin graduated from Kütahya Fine Arts High School Painting Department. He completed Akdeniz University Faculty of Fine Arts, Department of Graphics. Illustration, mural works, digital media designs, etc.
The artist duo Ertuğrul Güngör and Faruk Ertekin, who spent their childhood together in Kütahya, look at the old memories of the city they live in and the past of the ceramic material they use. They search for a new language by using design elements for today. Although Güngör & Ertekin refer to the fragility of the ceramic material, they reflect the balance between the material and the style used by taking strong historical and literary references. In their works, the artists work on tile and ceramic surfaces and three-dimensional forms with underglaze and overglaze painting techniques and freehand techniques.

Flóra Borsi is a young fine art photographer from Hungary, born in 1993. She uses exquisite photo manipulation to create surreal images that are thematically focused on identity, relationships, emotions and dreams. Her immaculate technique
and subtle conceptual ideas create beautiful evocations of universal emotions, from lust and desire to despair and loss.
Flóra at once captures the complex strength and fragility of the human psyche. She expertly visualises dark fantasies and atmospheric dreams, utilising the uncanny and clever metaphor, while unlocking what it means to think, feel, dream and express in the urban world. Her work often features the female body and she plays with hiding and revealing the eyes or face to leave only the feminine form, exploring questions of female representation and the relationship between body and self. Flóra has exhibited internationally with solo exhibitions in Europe and the USA and has most notably taken part in the “Continental Shift” group exhibition at Saatchi Gallery. She has also exhibited at the Louvre, in France and will be showing this year at the Modern Museum Shanghai and the National Museum of Art in Hungary. Her ethereal aesthetic has won multiple art prizes and garnered critical acclaim from press including The Guardian’s Observer and BBC Culture. Her artwork was the face of Adobe Photoshop in 2014 and launched a second one in late 2019 for Adobe Photoshop again. In 2018 she became a guest artist of Hasselblad and was one of the three people in the world, who were working with Hasselblad’s unreleased camera. She got into US Forbes 30 under 30 list and in 2021 Hasselblad chose her as the first Hasselblad HEROINE of the Year.

Hanefi Yeter was born in Bayburt in 1947. He started his education in the class of Bedri Rahmi Eyüboğlu, who also tutored him in his own artist studio at the State Academy of Fine Arts (Istanbul) in 1967. In 1970, he was granted a place to study in Paris at the “Academie des Beaux-Arts”, however he was unable to finish his degree at the institution due to personal reasons. He returned to Istanbul where he completed his education at the State Academy of Fine Arts and received his degree in 1972. In 1973 he passed the State Scholarship Examination and moved to Berlin for his postgraduate education, which he completed at the Fine Arts Academy (Universität der Künste) in 1978.
Hanefi Yeter´s work has been shown in over 90 solo exhibitions. Additionally, he participated in numerous group exhibitions in Turkey and abroad in Vienna, Paris, Brussels, Manchester and numerous cities in Germany. He was the first Turkish-born who presented his work in East Germany (DDR) in a solo show. The catalogue for this exhibition was only published after a special permission was issued by the Soviet government. His art pieces are both on display and in the collections of in national and international museums and collections. He produced five murals, two facades incorporating ceramic, two mosaic panels and one sculpture work in Berlin. Three of his murals can be found in Darmstadt. Between the years of 2006 to 2012 almost one hundred of his sculptures as well as his relief artworks where on display in various shopping malls throughout Turkey, for instance the Forum Mersin, Aydin, Denizli, Trabzon, Ankara, Bursa, Istanbul, Antalya, Tarsus, Diyarbakir and Nevşehir.
Currently Yeter works and lives in Istanbul and Bodrum.

Born in Manisa in 1988, Dr. Ramazan Can graduated from Gazi University (name changed to Hacı Bayram Veli University), Faculty of Fine Arts, Department of Fine Arts Education in 2011. In 2015, he received his graduate degree in Painting at the Fine Arts Institute of Gazi University. He debuted with the solo show “Shamans and Demons” in 2015 at Gallery Foyart in Ankara. In the following year, two more exhibitions under the same theme were held in Ankara, both at hotel Houston and Tilky Gallery.
Shamanism and modern mysticism play a vital role in Can´s work. He draws from Anatolian motifs, yet, he maintains a somewhat distanced relationship with those motifs and discerns them from their historic context when combining them with neo-expressionist elements. His work spans across painting, collage to neon light works and sculpture and though, not political in nature, one can read a certain narrative and commentary on history and modern society.
Can is to present day continuing his education at Gazi University within the Fine Arts Institute, though within the Program of Sufficiency in the Arts. Working and living in Ankara, he is currently lecturing at the Painting Department of the Faculty of Fine Arts at Ankara Hacı Bayram Veli University.