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Eylem Aladogan (born 24 October 1975) is a Dutch installation artist and sculptor.
Life and works
Aladogan was born in Tiel, as a child of Kurdish parents from Turkey. From 1996 to 1999 she was a student of the Willem de Kooning Academie in Rotterdam. In 2004 and 2005 she studied at the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten in Amsterdam. She makes sculptures and installations that take fill up the entire exhibition space. In her work, she plays with the psychological contrast between fear and power.
Aladogan works in Rotterdam and Amsterdam. In 2005 she won the ABN AMRO Kunstprijs. In 2008 she had a solo exhibition in the Kröller-Müller Museum in Otterlo. In 2009 her works were shown in the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam. In 2009 she won the Volkskrant Beeldende Kunst Prijs.
