Ekrem Yalcindag is one of the most important contemporary Turkish artists. In his impasto paintings, he combines a modern, abstract pictorial approach with traditions from countries east of Turkey. For the Bank Austria Kunstforum in Vienna, the renowned curator Robert Fleck is organizing Yalcindag's largest solo exhibition to date, which focuses on three new series of works that have never been shown institutionally before. This publication presents them for the first time: the monochrome Tondi, the Infinity Paintings with their subtle, sometimes magical spaces of color, and the large-format series Natures. Created especially for the exhibition, these paintings contain Yalcindag's typical structure of small, stylized flowers as well as oversized floral motifs and wooden structures, which the artist applies to the canvas using screen and wood printing.



Ekrem Yalcindag (*1964 in Gölbasi, Turkey) studied art at Dokuz Eylül University in Izmir from 1985. In 1994, he moved to Germany, where he continued his studies at the Städelschule under Thomas Bayrle and Hermann Nitsch, eventually becoming a master student. Yalcindag's works have been shown in numerous exhibitions worldwide and can be found in important collections such as the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, the Istanbul Modern, the Zurich Museum Haus Konstruktiv, the Sammlung Goetz in Munich, among others. He lives and works in Istanbul and Frankfurt am Main.