source: nowiswere

Born in Istanbul. In 1977, she graduated from Mimar Sinan University Department of Sculpture. In 1993, Erkmen went to Berlin for a year as part of the DAAD artist programme (Berliner Künstlerprogramm). During 1998-1999 she was the Arnold Bode Professor at the Kassel Art Academy and was also professor at the Frankfurt Staedelschule from 2000 to 2007. She has been professor in Hessen province, Germany since 2010. In 2002, she received the Maria Sibylla Merian award, a bi-annual award given by the Hessen province. Ayşe Erkmen’s work has been continuously on exhibition in local and international galleries and biennials for the last 20 years. Her solo exhibitions include among others, “Tactics of Invisibility”, Witte de With, Centre for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam (2010); Weggefährten, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin (2008); K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein – Westfalen, Düsseldorf (2008); ‘Under the Roof’, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham (2005); ‘Busy Colours’, Sculpture Centre, New York (2005); ‘durchnässt’, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt (2005); ‘Kuckuck’, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, St. Gallen (2003); ‘Kein gutes Zeichen’, Secession, Vienna (2002). She has also participated in numerous group exhibition including Manifesta 1, Rotterdam (1996) and Skulpturen Projekte, Münster (1997). Moreover, she has contributed to the 2nd and 4th International Istanbul Biennial, the Shanghai, Berlin, Kwangju, Sharjah, Christchurch Biennials and the Folkestone and Echigo Tsumari Triennials.
Ayşe Erkmen lives in Istanbul and Berlin.
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source: collabcubed

Germany-based Turkish artist Ayse Erkmen has been creating interesting installations for years. She is currently exhibiting a piece called Plan B in the Turkish Pavillion at the Venice Biennale. Earlier this year she had a show, On Its Own, at Rampa in Istanbul that at its center featured the above, quite dramatic, orange seat belt installation, Easy Jet.

Erkmen is impressively prolific and all her work is worth a look, but above is a sampling.
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source: artsynet

Revealing a fascination with Minimalism’s reduced formal language, Ayse Erkmen’s extremely diverse practice involves architectural and environmental interventions, sculpture, installation, photography, and animation. “This is something that I’ve chosen to do, and every problem and every space becomes a new beginning for me,” she says. “I don’t have to be connected to a style or a form of art or anything.” Site-specific and spontaneous, her works focus on the relationship between the architectural and the socio-cultural—themes such as migrancy, renewal processes, transportation systems, and the configuration of public spaces. In her most famous work, Shipped Ships (2001), three ferries were brought to Frankfurt by container ships from Japan, Italy, and Turkey along with their complete respective crews. These were used as passenger ferries across the Main River for a period of one month.