05/04/2024 – 21/04/2024,

Path Widens: Leyla Yenirce with Sherko Abbas, Einar Henriksen, Clara Jost, Shambhavi Kaul, Rose Lowder, Hengameh Yaghoobifarah

, Kunsthalle Münster

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Leyla Yenirce (born 1992 in Qubine, Kurdistan) studied Culture of the Metropolis at Hafen-City University Hamburg. She then continued her studies in Fine Arts at the University of Fine Arts Hamburg. In her artistic practice, Yenirce uses multimedia to explore the representation of wealth as well as cultural, media and military dominance structures. She shows the fine line between glorifying ideology and resistant emancipation. She often combines seemingly contradictory elements such as feminism and war, pop culture and genocide as well as desire, longing and irony. Her video works, installations and performances deal with multilayered aspects and themes such as cultural and media dominance structures. She often creates cinematic, staged works based on found footage that are very politically and critically charged. A central aspect of her work is the deliberate use of sound in her visually powerful work. In 2020, Yenirce was awarded the Karl H. Ditze Prize. In 2021, she received the Federal Prize for Art Students, the 2021 Exhibition and Catalog Prize of the Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach Foundation and the Playground Art Prize. She is also a scholarship holder of the Heinrich Böll Foundation. Yenirce's works have been shown in selected group exhibitions, including at the Bundeskunsthalle Bonn (2021/2022), the Kurdish Film Festival Berlin (2020), the Kunstverein Hamburg (2020) and the Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof in Hamburg (2019). In fall 2022, the Kunsthaus Hamburg showed her work in her first solo exhibition entitled SO MUCH ENERGY.

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