Duration: 01.08.-31.08. 2024

Ekin Su Koc's activities range from paper collage and painting to plaster sculptures and fabric collages. With her works on paper and paintings, she creates minimalist figurative compositions about identity and gender. Figurative works and gestural abstractions reflect on themes such as migration, displacement and the fragmented sense of belonging. Her series combines contrasts and suggests hybrid cultural feminist corrections of patriarchal notes in everyday life and aims to question our perception of our daily environment.

For the Paper Future Lab, the artist works with branches. She covers these branches with old/antique maps collected from several countries, and written in many languages, e.g. Arabic, English, Hebrew or Armenian. By covering them, trees with paper are brought into direct connection with each other, and Kin Su Koc creates a clear reference to the transformation of the material and humanity. It creates a "transformed" form of nature, but a non-living one. It addresses consumer culture, shifts in identity, the environment and our daily perceptions.

Güneş Evrim Yılmaz's work focuses on the reincarnation of natural materials into paper, which she then transforms into visual and functional objects. This process serves as both a commentary and a method of archiving the passage of time, environmental changes and consumption patterns. By reusing materials, Günes highlights the cyclical nature of life and consumption, emphasizing sustainability and the potential for constant renewal and transformation.

As part of the Paper Future Lab, Güneş Evrim Yılmaz presents "Culture Shock" (2023), a work made of hand-recycled paper with flowers and leaves and kozo, a paper made from the inner bark of the mulberry tree.

"The body material was made from old art catalogs and books using hand-recycled papermaking techniques, water-based paints were used for coloring and fallen leaves were used for texture in the pulp. It was completed by various hand-molding techniques.” (Text Güneş Evrim Yılmaz)

Güneş Evrim Yılmaz is a multidisciplinary artist and designer known for her innovative works at the intersection of art, science and design. She was born in Istanbul in 1983 and moved to Berlin in 2023. Her brand "Sukurusu®", founded in Turkey, is known for its unique approach to recycling and material transformation.