Viron Erol Vert

born in 1975 in Berlin, lives and works in Berlin and Istanbul
Villa Romana Fellow 2018

Awards and Scholarships

2017
Residency scholarship, Villa Romana, Florence
Exhibition scholarship, SAHA Foundation, Istanbul
Exhibition scholarship, Hauptstadtkulturfonds, Berlin

2015/ 2016
Work scholarship, Berliner Senat, Berlin

2014
Exhibition scholarship, Stiftung Kunstfonds, Bonn, DE

2008
27th Contemporary Artists Prize Aksanat and of the Turkish Society for Sculpture
and Art (1st price for the category of painting and illustration), Istanbul

Of Part and Loaf, 2017, lazered styrofoam, 9 channel video and 9 channel sound
installation view, Leopold Museum, Vienna

Abraham1, 2014, brass and wood, iron leg, 310 x 270 x 310 cm
installation view, Kunstraum Bethanien, Berlin

Solo Exhibitions

2017
Born In The Purple, Kunstraum Kreuzberg /Bethanien, Berlin
The Name of Shades of Paranoia, Called Different Forms of Silence, Galerie Wedding, Berlin

2014
Der Chronist, Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, DE
Engineering Abraham 1, Milchhof Pavillon, Berlin

2013
WHILE /STOCKS /LAST, Zografeion, Istanbul
Typhon / Transit / Aphrodite, Bar Babette, Berlin
Private View, xavierboulbenne, Berlin

2012
7 Perde /7 Curtains, Galerist, Istanbul
Air Abraham, Tape Modern, Berlin

2010
By Aidmail /Shop in Gallery, Studio Pick, Gallery Opendahl, Berlin
Peripetia, Galerist, Istanbul
Missing Link aka Himmel /Hölle, TinTin, Berlin


Group Exhibition

2017
Die Grenze /The Border, Goethe Institut in cooperation with the HMKV, DE
Desintegriert Euch!, 3. Berliner Herbstsalon, Maxim Gorki Theater, Berlin
House of Wisdom, Collective Cukurcuma, with stations in Dzialdov, Berlin
Istanbul Biennial
Framer Framed, Amsterdam
The Finger that Shows the Moon Never Moons, Dan Gun Gallery, Berlin
Homeland, Canakkale Art Walk, BBK, Osnabrück, DE
The Corundurum of Imagination, Leopoldmuseum, Wien
ğ- the soft g – Queer forms migrate, Schwules Museum, Berlin

2016
Die Grenze, Goethe Institut in Kooperation mit dem HMKV with stations
(a.o.) in Moscow, Kiev, Minsk, Tbilisi and in Central Asia
In Ewigkeit, Gesellschaft für christliche Kunst, DG, Munich, DE
Power Play, Schaufenster, Berlin
Where are we Now, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.), Berlin
Nonlinear Future, Mixer, Istanbul

2015
SELBST, Ansaldo, Milan, IT
Das mechanische Corps, Hartware. MedienKunstVerein (HMKV), Dortmund, DE
Bring your Own, Between Bridges, Berlin
On the moment of change there is always a new threshold of imagination,
Artspace, Auckland, AU

2014
Only the dead have seen the end of war, Canakkale Biennial
10, Berghain, Berlin
Interfaces, Filmfestival, Kitzbühel, AT
Closest Distance, Galerist, Istanbul
The Mechanical Corps, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
5 billion solar years, Galerie Hauff, Stuttgart, DE
Metropolis aka Gästeliste, Berghain, Berlin

2013
Living with more art, Galerie Hauff, Stuttgart, DE
Muscle Temple, Studio 0047, Oslo
Heimat /Wüste /Herberge, Kunstquartier Grauer Hof, Aschersleben, DE

2012
Living with art, Galerie Hauff, Stuttgart, DE

2011
Die ungarische Methode, Kunstquartier Grauer Hof, Aschersleben, DE

2010
Correct me if I’m critical, Nordische Botschaften, Berlin

2009
There is No Audience, Centro Cultural Montehermoso, Vitoia-Gasteiz, ES
Time Challenges, HISK, Gent, BE

2008
Once a worker, be a worker, Aksanat, Istanbul
Alle, Berghain, Berlin

2007
13 Monde, Berghain, Berlin
Big Family Business, IMC, Istanbul

2006
Attention, Victoriahof, Berlin
CADEGIJÖKOMANEPHVI, Loft, Berlin