In the monastery church, Leyla Yenirce stages her video and sound installation “Splitter” larger than life, accompanied by urgent, harsh and tension-filled sounds.
Leyla Yenirce, born in 1992 in Qubînê, lives and works in Berlin. The artist and musician works with painting, sculpture, video and performance to create multi-layered works that deal with intermedial themes such as feminism, war, pop culture, genocide, desire, longing and irony.
Until 2022, Yenirce studied fine art with Jutta Koether at the Hamburg University of Fine Arts. She has been awarded numerous prizes and scholarships, including the prestigious Ars Viva Prize in 2023. The Kunsthaus Hamburg dedicated a first solo exhibition to her in 2022. In addition, her works have already been shown in numerous well-known institutions such as the Museum Folkwang, Essen (2024), the Haus der Kunst, Munich (2023), the gfzk, Leipzig (2023) and the Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn (2021).
“Leyla Yenirce. Splitter” is the start of a programmatic series by the Magdeburg Art Museum, which presents music and sound installations in the monastery church.
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