PİLEVNELİ is pleased to represent Ersan Mondtag!
Interdisciplinary artist Ersan Mondtag brings his distinctive vision from the performing arts into the realm of contemporary art, creating boundary-pushing works that challenge conventional artistic forms. By combining theater, music, performance, and installation, he produces visually striking pieces that reflect on complex social issues and the intricacies of human experience.
Mondtag’s practice centers on making contemporary personal and collective conflicts visible. He weaves political, psychoanalytic, and historical themes into clear and direct narratives through a strong formal language. Focusing on the aspects of collective experience that transcend genre, Mondtag presented Monument eines unbekannten Menschen (Monument to an Unknown Person) at the German Pavilion of the 60th Venice Biennale—a work that draws on the legacy of migrants and East German laborers.
Monument eines unbekannten Menschen was conceived as a counter-monument within the authoritarian architecture of the Biennale building. The three-story, teardrop-shaped structure takes inspiration from the life story of Mondtag’s grandfather, Hasan Aygün, and stages themes of labor, shelter, and public space. The installation invites viewers into a dense, immersive exploration of collective memory.
Born in 1987 in West Berlin, Germany, Ersan Mondtag lives and works in Berlin.
