- Visual Art
Urban Noise
Amira Rafat Kicherer, Elke Burkert, Yeliz Yigit
28 June 2024 19:00–23:59
29 June 2024 15:00–23:59
The soundscape in the urban environment is a system of coexistence. It consists of observing, eavesdropping, contemplating, perceiving as well as the unheard, the overlooked, the overlapping and a constant murmuring, swallowing, forgetting, and overlooking, all together. Urban silence is a collective phenomenon. Addressing these diverse themes, the three artists Yeliz Yigit, Amira Rafat Kicherer, and Elke Burkert work in the media of drawing, painting and installation. Intentionally, the artists present independent positions to artistically depict urban silence through abstract and concrete forms of expression.
Yeliz Yigit explores predefined roles and their social constructs in society. The works are created with gouache on paper or colored pencils on transparent paper. Here, silent thoughts are transformed into loud stories that urban life provides. The artistic representation resembles a diary entry, characterizing the urban sound.
In her installation „Krähen“ Elke Burkert dedicates herself to crows as cohabitants of urban space. This involves questioning language as learned behavior, algorithms and non-algorithms, and the self's relation to learned systems that shape us. The language that shapes our body.
Within her painting, Amira Rafat Kicherer deals with analog and digital image realities to which we are exposed daily, thus bringing together various visual experiences on canvas. Her works are as complex, color-intensive, and loud as the urban environment in which she operates. Nevertheless, contemplating her work requires concentration and pause to orient oneself in its complex artistic endeavor. Silence can only exist when it is loud, and vice versa.
Yeliz Yigit explores predefined roles and their social constructs in society. The works are created with gouache on paper or colored pencils on transparent paper. Here, silent thoughts are transformed into loud stories that urban life provides. The artistic representation resembles a diary entry, characterizing the urban sound.
In her installation „Krähen“ Elke Burkert dedicates herself to crows as cohabitants of urban space. This involves questioning language as learned behavior, algorithms and non-algorithms, and the self's relation to learned systems that shape us. The language that shapes our body.
Within her painting, Amira Rafat Kicherer deals with analog and digital image realities to which we are exposed daily, thus bringing together various visual experiences on canvas. Her works are as complex, color-intensive, and loud as the urban environment in which she operates. Nevertheless, contemplating her work requires concentration and pause to orient oneself in its complex artistic endeavor. Silence can only exist when it is loud, and vice versa.
Biography
Amira Rafat Kicherer, Elke Burkert, Yeliz Yigit
Yeliz Yigit studied at the Berlin UdK and graduated in 2021. Among other things her works have been shown at Kunsthaus Bethanien, Raum für Sichtbarkeit, Lage Egal and Stadttheater Spandau. The artist lives and works in Berlin.
Amira Rafat Kicherer studied fine arts at the ABK in Stuttgart and at the UdK Berlin, where she graduated as Meisterschülerin in 2021. Among other things, her works have been exhibited at Kunstverein Potsdam, Kunstverein Neuhausen and salondergegenwart in Hamburg. The artist lives and works in
Berlin.
Elke Burkert graduated 2021 as Meisterschülerin at theUdK in Berlin. Among other things her works have been shown internationally in Poland and Estonia, Galerie Friese in Berlin and Kunsthaus Bethanien. She lives and works in Berlin.
Amira Rafat Kicherer studied fine arts at the ABK in Stuttgart and at the UdK Berlin, where she graduated as Meisterschülerin in 2021. Among other things, her works have been exhibited at Kunstverein Potsdam, Kunstverein Neuhausen and salondergegenwart in Hamburg. The artist lives and works in
Berlin.
Elke Burkert graduated 2021 as Meisterschülerin at theUdK in Berlin. Among other things her works have been shown internationally in Poland and Estonia, Galerie Friese in Berlin and Kunsthaus Bethanien. She lives and works in Berlin.