Finissage and Meet the Artist with Ahu Dural | Galerie Wedding

In spring 2026, Galerie Wedding will present the solo exhibition “Malplaquetstraße 33 – Jugend einer Monteurin” by Ahu Dural. The exhibition takes an apartment as the starting point for an artistic exploration of family history, migration, work, female solidarity and appropriation. Here, assembly appears not only as a manual activity performed by migrant women working on a piecework basis in Berlin’s electrical manufacturing plants, but also as an aesthetic process and principle: Dural’s sculptures consist of basic forms – often made of wood or industrial aluminium strips – which are joined and combined with photographs, textiles or everyday objects. Assembly becomes a method of appropriation and a form of thinking. Personal memory, photographic detail and architectural reference overlap. Colour, too, becomes an important vehicle for memory and a connecting element between narrative, image and object. „Malplaquetstraße 33 – Jugend einer Monteurin“ is an exhibition about arrival and work, about migrant lived worlds, about industrial rhythms and domestic ways of life, about memory as a fragmentary, assembled process.

 

About the Artist

Ahu Dural, born in Berlin in 1984, lives and works in Berlin with her two children. As the eldest daughter of Turkish immigrants, I grew up in Siemensstadt – a workers’ housing estate built in the Berlin Modernist style. In my multidisciplinary work, I explore the interplay between biographies (with a focus on migrant women), architecture and productive labour. The works or groups of works often revolve around the re-situating and re-interpretation of biographical history, as well as biographical architecture. The fusion of these two components – largely in sculpture, installation and, increasingly, text – forms the basis of my intensive investigations into the relationship between body, object and memory.