Yilmazturk & Brockmann
The intercultural YILMAZTURK & BROCKMANN Concept was born in January 2012. After the work for the PASAjist Gallery in Istanbul, Nejla Yilmazturk and Gerd G.M.Brockmann decided to work as an interdisciplinary Artist Couple between the Border of Fashion Design and Fine Art Concepts. The first works were born after a meeting at the Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University where both Artists studied in the Fashion Design Department. After the first work experiences this couple starts to work in different projects and countries to research with new materials in the fine art and design business to create contemporary textile installations and fashion design Concepts.
The dissolution of boundaries, the fusion of concepts from Fashion Design and Fine Arts is at the core of this particular collaboration. Both artists exclusively use minimal textiles, recycled or exceptional materials, thus forging a unique connection between apparently contrary features of Turkish and German culture. Their shared work allows glimpses at a union of opposites. The pieces references dualist concepts, combining masculine and feminine elements. Textile structures play with borders and opposites, combining art and design.
Embedded in space, the disciplines flow into each other. Just shape and texture and the materials or structures, create an expression in space. If there ever were boundaries between Art and Fashion Design, they are being dissolved and merging in this contemporary concept.
Nejla Yilmazturk – (born 1989, Kircali, Bulgaria) is a Schleswig-Holstein/Germany and Bursa/Turkey based Fashion Designer, Illustrator & Artist, educated at the Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University at the Fashion Design Department – Istanbul/Turkey.
since 2016 self-employed Artist & Fashion Designer
2007 – 2014 Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA): Fashion Design & Textiles
2003-2007 Zeki Müren Fine Arts High School, Bursa/Turkey
In her work she researches boundaries between fashion and fine art concepts. Her artistic practice consists Fashion Design, High level Illustrations, Textile Concepts, Styling, Photography, Painting and Graphic Design Concepts. (More about the CV under X-FASHION LAB)
Gerd G. M. Brockmann (born 1977, Oldenburg i./H., Germany) is a Schleswig-Holstein/Germany and Bursa/Turkey based contemporary multidisciplinary artist, known for temporary textile installations and ephemeral concepts. Educated at the Europa-Universität Flensburg/Germany and the Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University – Istanbul/Turkey. (More under CV)
2012 – 2014 Master (M. Ed.)- Fine Art & visual Media / Textile & Fashion
Europa Universität Flensburg / Germany
2011 – 2012 Erasmus Program – Fashion Design / Painting / Glass and Ceramic Department
Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University / Istanbul-Turkey
2009 – 2012 Bachelor of Arts – Mediation Sciences-Fine Art & visual Media / Textile & Fashion
Europa Universität Flensburg / Germany
Yilmazturk & Brockmann working together at the X-FASHION-LAB and for the ARTPROJECTBROCKMANN. Exhibitions and realized projects all over Europe, Turkey & North Africa.
The couple works and lives between Schleswig-Holstein/Germany and Bursa/Istanbul – Turkey
In our research it´s relevant to see the impact of a body in space. Textiles as second skin and the combination of both, to create a fugacious sculpture. When can you perceive the body in combination with textiles as a sculpture and where is the border? How feels recycled material on your skin? What kind of haptic experiences involves the mantling? How are your senses changing during this process?
We are following those questions in our textile installations and fashion design concepts, to reach a new reference between design and body. For this purpose we are using textile materials as a base for a bodily transformation and searching for new connections between body and space. Working with unusual materials like blood, inner tubes of tires and chains are supposed to suggest the theme of working conditions and sustainability of the textile industry, making it possible to get new perceptions and to break barriers.
The couple works and lives between Schleswig-Holstein/Germany and Bursa/Istanbul – Turkey
