Ekrem Yalçındağ
Artist
Biography
Ekrem Yalçındağ (born 1964, Adıyaman) graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts at Dokuz Eylül University in İzmir and between 1994 and 1999 studied at the Städelschule in Frankfurt with Hermann Nitsch. Known for paintings built on the repetition of geometric and floral patterns drawn from traditional Turkish and Islamic art, his work is held in collections including Istanbul Modern, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, the European Patent Office in The Hague and the Goetz Collection in Munich. He lives and works in Istanbul and Germany.