Viron Erol Vert
Colours Between Earth and Sky
29. Mai – 30. September 2026
Textile Installation on Neumarkt Arnsberg
A project by Kunstverein Arnsberg in collaboration with the City of Arnsberg, as part of the opening of Kultursommer Arnsberg 2026
Opening : Friday, May 29, 2026, 3:00 pm
followed by an intercultural Mezze gathering at 4:00 pm in the garden of Kunsthaus Arnsberg, Königstraße 24 (directly adjacent to Neumarkt)
Exhibition period: May 29 – September 30, 2026
Press preview: May 28, 2026, 11:00 am
On May 29, 2026, the temporary installation Colours Between Earth and Sky by Viron Erol Vert will open on Neumarkt in Arnsberg.
The work is developed in the context of the exhibition The Colliding Ones at Kunstverein Arnsberg and extends its themes into the public space of the city. Positioned in front of the Kunstverein, Colours Between Earth and Sky creates a multi-dimensional connection between exhibition, urban space, and the local community.
The multi-part textile installation, funded by the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, the Hochsauerlandkreis, Sparkasse Mitten im Sauerland, and the City of Arnsberg, unfolds across the historic Neumarkt as a sequence of multicolored fabric bands, forming a canopy-like “sky of flags.” Supported by twenty-four masts, these elements run in parallel rhythm along the public space. With a length of approximately 75 meters each, they articulate a linear, architectural passage through the square.
The semi-transparent, gradient-printed textile surfaces engage with light, wind, and movement. Multiple color tones merge, shift, overlap, and dissolve depending on the viewer’s perspective. Shadows emerge, offer shelter, and move throughout the day, transforming the perception of the otherwise strictly structured square. This can be understood as a metaphor for the constantly shifting, complementary states of our lives.
The installation is conceived in dialogue with the architectural rhythm of the square—originally designed in the Prussian style of classicism—and introduces an atmospheric condition of transition and multiplicity. Conceived for a duration of four months, it accompanies both the public and the urban space throughout the summer.
In the exhibition The Colliding Ones, presented at Kunstverein Arnsberg, Viron Erol Vert explores transitions, encounters, and the convergence of different perspectives of human existence, as well as the complex emotions associated with them and their transformation within an ever-changing cosmopolitan society. Like a satellite extending into the public realm, the installation follows these ideas: a constellation of floating bands and chromatic states that do not fix themselves, but continuously enter into new relations.
The installation is conceived in reference to May 8, the Day of Liberation from National Socialism , which serves as a key point of reference within German remembrance culture. Opening at the end of May, the work situates this historical moment as a temporal framework without prescribing a fixed interpretation.
Towards the end of the summer holidays (late August), the installation will be complemented by a series of events in the garden of Kunsthaus Arnsberg, activating the public space as a shared experiential environment.
Viron Erol Vert lives and works between Berlin and the Mediterranean region. His artistic practice spans installation, sculpture, sound, and painting, and is shaped by questions of identity, social transitions, and the relationship between the individual and collective space.
Vert has exhibited internationally, including Club under the Fog, Busan Biennale (2025); the immersive project The Hermit, National Museum of Contemporary Art EMST, Athens (2023/24); Garden of Ornaments, Kunsthalle Baden-Baden (2023); and Atoms, Souls, Senses, Villa Romana, Florence (2022). He developed the exhibition concept Ambereum for the Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art (RIBOCA, 2018), later presented as part of the Arts & Activism Programme at the Roskilde Festival (2019–2022). Earlier solo exhibitions include Born in the Purple (Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin, 2017), The Name of Shades of Paranoia (Galerie Wedding, Berlin, 2017), and The Chronicler (Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, 2014). He is the recipient of several awards, including the Kunst-am-Bau Prize (Inner-colours and Cubistic-selves, Orient-Institut Istanbul / Tarabya Cultural Academy, 2026), Three Happy Arches (Fraunhofer Institute, Frankfurt, 2025), the LETTER Foundation Ludwig Gies Prize for Small Sculpture (2022), the Villa Romana Prize (2018), and the Akbank Sanat Prize (2008). Since 2025, he has been teaching in the MA Spatial Strategies program at Weißensee Academy of Art Berlin.
The project is funded by the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, the Hochsauerlandkreis, Sparkasse Mitten im Sauerland, and the City of Arnsberg. We would also like to thank Julius Cronenberg oH for their support and implementation.
For further information and press materials, please contact: presse@kunstverein-arnsberg.de
