(c) Andreas Dammertz
Nezaket Ekici (*1970 in Kırşehir, Turkey) is a visual artist working internationally with a focus on performance art. She lives and works in Berlin, Stuttgart and Istanbul. At the age of three, she emigrates with her family to Germany. She studied sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and earned a master's degree in art education at the Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich. Ekici was a master student of Marina Abramović in the field of performance at the Braunschweig University of Art.
Ekici has presented over 300 different performances and installations in more than 70 countries on four continents, in museums, galleries and biennials. In 2013/2014, she was a fellow at the Tarabya Cultural Academy in Istanbul and in 2020, she received the Cultural Exchange Fellowship of the State of Berlin (Visual Arts: ISCP New York). In 2021/22 she took part in the Artists-in-Residence Program at the Afrika Schlingensief Opera Village in Burkina Faso and in 2024 in the FSA (Foundation for Spirituality and the Arts) Artists-in-Residence Program in Charleston SC.
2016/17, Ekici received the Rome Prize of the German Academy Rome Villa Massimo and in 2018 the Paula Modersohn-Becker Art Prize.
Ekici has been a member of the DKB (Deutscher Künstlerbund) since 2016 and of the Berufsverband Bildender Künstler*innen Berlin (bbk berlin) since 2023. She works as a volunteer on several committees and is a delegate of the Deutscher Künstlerbund in the IGBK.
