11 APR until 10 MAY 2025
At EIGEN + ART LAB

Cihan Çakmak was born in 1993 Lower Saxony/Germany, is a visual artist and photographer. In her work, she deals with fragile biographies, self-image, self-determination in the context of authoritarian systems and the abstraction of inner processes. With her art, she manages to address our own perceptions, prejudices and psychological wounds.

Cihan Çakmak, born in 1993 in Lower Saxony, lives and works in Berlin. She studied photography in Dortmund, Lisbon, and Leipzig and completed her diploma and master’s studies at the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig under Tina Bara. Çakmak is the winner of the Grand Prize Bochum 2023 and the Paula Modersohn Becker Young Talent Award 2020. Most recently, Çakmak’s work was shown at the Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin and the Mouches Volantes project space in Cologne. Her works are currently displayed at the Museum of Fine Arts in Leipzig, and an exhibition at the Kunstpalast in Düsseldorf is planned for the summer.

2 MAY until 7 JUN 2025
Opening – 2 MAY 2025, 5-9 pm
At EIGEN + ART Galerie

Central to Nicola Samorì’s work is the idea that the most visceral way to ignite the experience of pleasure in art is by the shock of cruel depictions that get under the skin, an aspect of human nature that has intensely occupied art theory since antiquity. Samorì’s painstaking painterly handling of the epidermis of baroque images creates a sensuously dense foil for his artistic probing of the emotional and aesthetic depths of this unsettling subject.

Nicola Samorì was born in 1977 in Forli, Italy, and studied at the Accademia d’Arte in Bologna. His work has been shown in numerous international institutions and museums, including solo exhibitions at the Kunsthalle Tübingen (2012), the Yu-Hsiu Museum of Art, Nantou, Taiwan (2019) and the MART Rovereto, Italy (2020). He was represented in the Italian Pavilion at both the 54th and 56th Biennale di Venecia. In autumn 2025, an extensive solo exhibition will open at the Museo di Capodimonte in Naples.