Düsseldorf, November 2025 – ANNA LAUDEL Düsseldorf presents from December 6, 2025 to February 28, 2026 the solo exhibition of Berlin-based artist Ekin Su Koc: Self Love. The show features new paintings, collages, and sculptures made of textile and plaster that reflect Koc’s personal journey toward self-acceptance — shaped by her experiences as a woman, artist, and mother with a multicultural background.

The heart of the exhibition is a reflection on identity, care, and feminism. Koc presents motherhood not as a fixed role, but as a fluid, self-determined state beyond patriarchal norms — multifaceted, contradictory, and open to new perspectives.

The collage series explores love in its many forms: romantic, passionate, human — always set against the backdrop of ecological and social fractures. Androgynous figures merge with elements of nature and the animal world, dissolving fixed gender identities and portraying the human being as a thinking creature that leaves rigid rules behind. More introspective works such as Sleep Deprivation, Brain Fog, or Wanderer Self illustrate the physical and emotional challenges of lived experience and expand Koc’s dialogue on self-care.

Her oil paintings draw on canonical works of art history, transforming them through subtly humorous and provocative gestures. Koc’s plaster sculptures — cast from sand molds of her young son — add a playful and intimate dimension. They challenge traditional notions of sculpture and point to the connection between devotion and creativity.

Known for her collages in which alternative universes emerge, Koc deepens her exploration of body imagery, gender roles, displacement, and the divine feminine in Self Love. Nurturing and creativity, gentleness and strength coexist equally in this exhibition. Self Love is a space for feeling, questioning, and beginning anew.