Upcoming
“…WHEN ONE OF US REMEMBERS WHO WE REALLY ARE, ALL OF US REMEMBER…”, book launch, performance-based research and discussion
14 June 2025, 17:00
Join us for the launch of Auditions for An Unwritten Opera, a new publication by Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden revisiting the 2023 experimental exhibition on Mutlu Çerkez, curated and edited by Misal Adnan Yıldız. The evening unfolds as a rehearsal for a visual reading of the book, developed in collaboration with Leman Darıcıoğlu, whose performance—built from earlier works and props—channels Çerkez’s idea of rehearsal as a shared process.
Doors: 16:30
Language: English
Free admission
Workshop: Working with(in) limits & expanding possibilities and Performing “Time is Money” as part of the School of Performance Art
5–6 June 2025
Workshop: Working with(in) Limits & Expanding Possibilities
5 June, 19:00–22:00; 6 June, 12:00–16:00
A workshop engaging long-durational performance as a method of working with(in) limits through endurance, restriction, repetition and the body’s physical boundaries as generative forces.
Performance: Time is Money
6 June, 18:00–23:00
Starting with a shift in the capitalist chronopolitical motto “time is money,” the performance interrogates capitalist and alternative systems of value exchange and how the politics of time shape our lives.
Fire, everywhere in Ballhaus Prinzenallee as part of the festival Proud Haram
1 April 2025, 20:00
Fire, everywhere unpacks the complexity of resistance and resilience within queer lives. Holding space to mourn and releasing anger to transform, the work explores ways to challenge and twist power dynamics, seeking expanding love for life amidst the constant fight.
Received the DAAD Prize 2024 at AdBK Nuremberg.
Photo: Sophia Lökenhoff
Fire, everywhere as part of the Aphrodisiac Garden: A Yard for Intimacy, Botany and Health in Ornamenta24
7 September 2024
Fire, everywhere goes to Ornamenta24 to participate in Aphrodisiac Garden: A Yard for Intimacy, Botany and Health on September 7.
Photography: Sophia Loekenhoff
DAAD Prize 2024 for Fire, everywhere
10 July 2024
Leman Sevda Darıcıoğlu receives the DAAD Prize 2024, awarded for outstanding achievements of international students studying at German universities, with their graduation project Fire, everywhere in Live Art Forms at AdBK Nuremberg.
Fire, everywhere is a live performance for eight hours (2023–2024), unpacking resistance and resilience within queer lives through the iconic symbol of the boxing glove.
Fire, everywhere in the Jahresausstellung 2024, AdBK, Nuremberg
10 July 2024, 12:30–20:30
Live performance, 8 hours
RfGA, AdBK, Nuremberg
Fire, everywhere unpacks the complexity of resistance and resilience within queer lives. It turns the iconic symbol of the fight, the boxing glove, into research on violence and dynamics of empowerment. Through eight hours of mourning, anger and transformation, it explores ways to challenge and twist power dynamics, seeking expanding love for life amidst the constant fight.
Photography: Juan Saez
Exhibition: A Crack We Sprout Through, June 7 – July 20, SANATORIUM, Istanbul
7 June – 20 July 2024
SANATORIUM presents A Crack We Sprout Through, a group show with Leman Sevda Darıcıoğlu, Ndayé Kouagou and Elif Saydam, curated by Melih Aydemir. Darıcıoğlu’s video installation focuses on the Kimsesiz [Those Who Have No One] cemetery in Kilyos, Istanbul, alongside an installation reimagining the inclusive rainbow flag. The cemetery visit with Kübra Uzun and Onur Tayranoğlu becomes a grieving ritual and act of care.
Lecture at Bauhaus University, Weimar
19 December 2023, 18:00
Leman Sevda Darıcıoğlu gives the fourth lecture in the series Bauhaus – looking forward: Equity at Bauhaus at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. The lecture series focuses on marginalised perspectives in contemporary art and artistic and curatorial strategies that challenge dominant narratives of Global North art history.
My burden is my soulmate is on the cover of Q+
December 2023
My burden is my soulmate and May the fire empower me, may the fire empower my community are featured on the front and back covers of Q+, Issue 12, Death, Grief and Ghosts, edited by Aslı Zengin, Ankara.
Fire, everywhere in the Kunstkalendar 2024 by LfA Förderbank Bayern
5 December 2023
Fire, everywhere is selected in the Kunstkalender 2024 by LfA Förderbank Bayern.
The launch takes place on 5 December 2023 at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich.
Photography: Robert Brembeck