AZADE KÖKER

 1949        Istanbul
1968-72     Istanbul State Academy of Fine Arts
1973-76     Berlin School of Fine Arts, Dept. of Industrial Design
1976-79     Berlin School of Fine Arts, Dept. of Sculpture
Since 1978    Atelier of her own in Berlin
1979        Master Student
1985        Darmstadt, Honorary Award of the City Stipend from the Berlin City
Senate
1986        Award in Fine Arts Criticism (Verband Deutscher Kritiker E.V.)
1988        Düsseldorf Grand Prize in Art
1989        II. International Istanbul Biennial
1992-93     Instructor at the Berlin School of Fine Arts
1993-94     Employment Stipend of the J.M. Kohler Company, U.S.A
1994        Professor in the Salzburg Summer Academy
Workshop, Kyoto Seika University, Japan
1994-95     Visiting Professor at the Bremen School of Art, Bremen
1995-03     Professor at Burg Giebichenstein School of Art and Design, Halle
1996        Sculpture Symposium in South Korea
Sculpture project as Guest Artist of the Year, City of Wolfsburg
Since 2003     Braunschweig Technical University:
Professor and Director of the Institute of Artistic Design

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1980        Hannover, Düsseldorf, Stuttgart
1984       “Sculptures and Paintings” (with catalogue), Kunstamt Kreuzberg, Berlin
1985        Gallery in Tiergarten, Hannover
               Gallery Linneborn, Bonn
1986        Gallery Schneider, Freiburg Fischerplatz-Gallery, Ulm
1989        Macka Art Gallery, Istanbul
1990        Emschertal-Museum, Herne (with catalogue)
1990-91    “Soil and Stone” (with catalogue),
               Georg-Kolbe-Museum, Berlin
1991        Ankara National Museum of Painting and Sculpture, Ankara (organized by Gallery Nev, with catalogue)
1992        Atatürk Culture Center, Istanbul (organized by Gallery Nev)
1994        Installations, J.M. Kohler Company, Sheboygan, Wisconsin, U.S.A.
1995        Kunstverein Lüneburg, Lüneburg
               Installation, Palace of Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg
               Torhaus Gallery, Braunschweig
1996       “Inequalities”, Installations in the Mathematics Library of the Berlin Technical University,   Berlin
1997        Otto-Gallery, Munich
1998        “Symphony for Wind Instrument”, Otto-Gallery, Munich
        “Installations, Intensity, Cultural Journey” (with catalogue),
Darmstadt
1999    “In The Sign of Cross” (with catalogue), Installation in the Weitendorf Chapel, Weitendorf  
2000        “Special Reports” (with catalogue),
        Constanze-Pressehaus, Berlin
2001        “Transparency of Gardens“, Art Institution, Bielefeld
        “Transparency”, Gallery Apel, Istanbul
2002        “Body-Press“,  Art Space, Drochtersen
2004        “Transparency of Absence“ , Otto- Gallery, Munich
2006        “Am Seidenen Faden“ , Fischerplatz Gallery, Ulm
        “Remembering“, Gallery Nev, Ankara
2007        “Human Nature“, Milli Reasürans Art Gallery, Istanbul (catalogue)
2008        “Verortung“, Otto Gallery, Munich
“REAL – IRREAL“,  Installations, Train Station of Ankara, curator: Sabine Hagemann, Goethe Institute, Ankara
2009                ‘Hybrid Corridors-Spaces’, Casa Dell’Arte, Istanbul