Merve Kılıçer (1987)

Herbarium Collection - Artists - Merve Kılıçer

Merve Kılıçer (Tr) works with past knowledges and translates them into contemporary experiences. Her practice is combined into spatial installations or performances comprising videos, objects, sound as well as artist books or images created with traditional technics of print making. She often creates in collaboration with other artists and forms a collective language. Currently works with KABA HAT artist collective, Eat House cooking collective and lives in Rotterdam as part of W1555 artist community.
She holds a MFA degree from Piet Zwart Institute in 2019 (Rotterdam), after studying at the Sabancı University (Istanbul) and at the Accademia Di Belle Arti (Rome). Her work has been shown at Stichting Sign (Groningen), Hotel Maria Kapel (Hoorn), Corridor Project Space (Amsterdam), Swimming Pool (Sofia), Freiburg Museum für Neue Kunst (Freiburg), and at the 14th Istanbul Biennial.

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The Herbarium project explores the work environment in contemporary culture in which ideas are created and exchanged. The focus of Herbarium is to compile a collection of sealed creative energy in boxes (40х40х10, 40x20x10 or 20х40х10) of different generations of artists around the world. The contents of each box are accompanied by a description and a sound file with the artist's voice. The artists, invited by the curator of "Herbarium" could choose two new participants - so the project traces the exchange of creative energy in the artworld. The development of the collection has no time limits, it grows exponentially with each new participant until the final exhibition is announced. The H Talks series (video portraits of the artists) are shot during the preparation of each presentation of the Herbarium collection in the artists work environment and studios. All the information, gathered in the process of developing the collection, will be available to all researchers, curators, gallery owners, students or art lovers who are interested in the less visible mechanisms through which contemporary culture functions.

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Merve Kılıçer (1987)

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