Still Here
view from the performance, metal pieces in various sizes, light and video projection, Apartment Project, Berlin 2018 





Still Here / Performance
Apartment Project
Berlin14-06-2018



Ceren Oykut (live drawing) // Yuko Matsuyama(sound&move) performing artist(singer and dancer)based in Berlin. www.yuki.de // Joshua Tennent(sound)ambient electronic producer based in Berlin.https://soundcloud.com/joshua-tennent // KAI (projection and light control) artist focused on kinetic sculptures and room&stage installations based in Berlin. www.werkstatt44.net/kai // photo: Henryk Weiffenbach // video: Mareike Krumm















Still Here, a view from the work in progress at the metal studio Werkstatt44 metal pieces in various sizes,
Berlin 2018





Still Here / solo exhibition
18-05-18/14-06-18
Apartment Project Berlin




Ceren Oykut's solo exhibition in Apartment Project, Still Here traces the artist's move from her home city Istanbul tot Berlin and the mental consequences accompanying this move. The starting point of the wall painting, which is placed on one of the corners of the exhibit space, was a notebook Ceren Oykut kept during her introduction courses into German language. The enlarged doodles that are taken out from or inscribed on iron panels give clues about the psychological impacts of her geographical shift, such as confusion uncertainty and the urge to make sense of the new environment. The material form of these inscriptions constructs distinct contrasts between light and dark, heaviness and lightness, which marks the daily life in the city of Berlin. Her series of engravings plays with the changeable quality of the original image and presents a sequential narrative reminiscent of the frames from an animation film. In this series, a simple portrayal of the studio in Istanbul where the engravings were produced coincidentally transforms into the subjective chronicle of a coup d'etat that happened in Turkey during the
days of its production. The last part of the exhibition is composed of Oykut's double drawings that bring together city-scapes of Istanbul and Berlin, and are populated by real people, phantasmagoric monster-creatures, dream-like events, and circular machinations. In an euphoric projection, they parade self-sustaining struggles in the urban environment, survival tactics of the daily life and enduring symbols of urban memory

Erden Kosova, Berlin 2018



Detail from the German study notebook, Istanbul-Berlin 2016-17




Ceren Oykut&Fezayafirar, Project Space Festival, Berlin, 2018


Black On Black
By Ceren Oykut & Fezayafirar



Bande á Part ‒ Tanzbare Veranstaltung für Außenseiter presents:
A SILENT ROOM ‒ Movement & Sound Improvisation Vol.9
13 March 2018, Eschschloraque, Berlin



Installation view from the studio; 
acrylic and pencil on papers in various sizes, Künstlerhaus Bremen, 2017  




cerenoykut@gmail.com