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COMING UP
MOMENTUM is proud to launch our cooperation with CIFRA
NEZAKET EKICI:
Transformation of Daily Life
Streaming on
1 – 30 June 2025
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and explore the artist’s page of CIFRA here
Daily life tasks are what Any Body Knows, right? But beneath the surface of the ordinary lie scenarios, rituals, and fairytale plots. Some feel familiar; others stretch to the edge of fantasy. Any action can be rethought and repurposed. Any simple habit can become a source of inspiration. And that is what this solo show by Nezaket Ekici uncovers. Nezaket Ekici uses her body as a seismograph of the present: it becomes a site of memory, resistance, and transformation. Her performances emerge from everyday life, yet always open up to universal questions of identity, migration, spirituality, and power. In her work, the boundaries between the private and the public, between ritual and rebellion, begin to dissolve. Ekici gives meaning to things by living through them performatively — every movement becomes a gesture of inquiry, exploration, and transgression. Her work becomes a constant engagement with the spaces we inhabit and the bodies we are — always in flux, always in motion.
This solo exhibition presents ten outstanding video works by Nezaket Ekici, selected from 25 years of international performance practice. More than 300 works in over 70 countries bear witness to a life in art, lived in ongoing dialogue with diverse cultures, everyday observations, and personal experiences. The selection strikingly reveals how Ekici uses her body as a medium to negotiate questions of identity, culture, and art history.
MOMENTUM MOVES!
An Outraged Goodbye to the Kunstquartier Bethanien
The Kunstquartier Bethanien has been the home of MOMENTUM ever since we first launched in Berlin in January 2011. For 14 years MOMENTUM has been an integral part of the identity and mission of the Kunstquartier Bethanien as a dedicated art center. During our tenure in the Bethanien, MOMENTUM has realised more than 300 Exhibitions, Artist and Curator Residencies, Video Art in Public Space Initiatives, Performances, Talks and Education Programming. We have consistently been an asset to the cultural program of the Kunstquartier Bethanien, bringing diverse new audiences into the building, while maintaining a strong network of loyal visitors, exceptional artists and partner institutions in Berlin and abroad. For all these reasons, MOMENTUM is OUTRAGED that, after 14 years at the Kunstquartier Bethanien, we have been informed that our contract will not be renewed without any explanation given, and with an utter refusal to communicate. Nor are we the only ones to be treated with such callous disregard by the GSE gGmbH, the company managing the Kunstquartier Bethanien. On behalf of all those being hassled and unfairly evicted in all the properties under GSE management, we condemn the GSE for blatantly contravening its mandate to safeguard premises to support socio-cultural initiatives.
Sadly, we are far from alone. Our move out of our home of 14 years in the Kunstquartier Bethanien takes place at a critical juncture in Berlin’s very identity as the art capitol of Europe; at a time when idiotically short-sited political decisions are threatening to eviscerate the art and culture scene in Berlin; when budgets for visual and performing arts institutions are being radically cut; when artists are being evicted from their studios; when they are being silenced and penalized for voicing political dissent; when so many of the support structures for the arts – which had made Berlin so unique and built-up this city’s reputation as a cultural mecca – are being de-funded. MOMENTUM stands together with Berlin’s vast art and culture communities in protest against the utter evisceration of the visual and performing arts.
So by necessity, as of January 2025, MOMENTUM MOVES! We will celebrate our 15th Anniversary in 2025 by focusing on the worldwide in our name, MOMENTUM Worldwide. This Global Platform for Time-based Art goes global, with projects in development in Australia, China, Malta, and beyond. And for our loyal community of Berliners, we will continue to make exciting pop-up exhibitions and events closer to home. December 2024 marks the end of our era at the Kunstquartier Bethanien. But we look forward to bigger and better things to come as MOMENTUM turns 15 next year!
