“When I work with a room, I consider the room as a drawing.”

Turkish-German artist Ahu Dural (Berlin * 1984) is known for her large-scale installations and collages, as well as her graphical approach to spaces and surfaces. Her multifaceted practice, which includes drawings, animations, furniture objects and sculptures, investigates the connections between architecture, art history, design, gender theories and identity politics. The relationship between physical scale and perspective is orchestrated in the exhibition spaces through abstract designs, challenging the situated gaze and concrete conditions of perceptions. By experimenting with different materials, contrasting, overlapping or converging qualities, an interplay between two - and three dimensional elements forms tension between Dural’s objects and images.

In her recent works, Dural reinterprets from a contemporary perspective the practice of female interior designers, artists and architects of the Modern and Postmodern Era, such as Eileen Grey, Charlotte Perriand, Janette Laverrière or Louise Bourgeois. Currently, Dural, who grew up in Berlin Siemensstadt, works with the history and architecture of her childhood places.

After finishing her studies in Illustrative Drawing at the University of the Arts in Berlin, Dural expanded her artistic research in Vienna, studying Performative Art - Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts under contemporary artist Monica Bonvicini. She has won several awards, such as the Gustav-Peichl-Price for Architectural Drawing (2016) and the Price Best Austrian Animation Festival (2014). Her recent solo shows include Her Shattering Room exhibited at Bildraum 07 Wien, She Sees Nothing presented at the Sammlung Friedrichshof Wien, Zwischen den Laken at SOX Berlin and neues bauen 13629 at Scharaun, Berlin. Dural lives and works in Berlin.