Scorpio – Evren Tekinoktay at Rudolph Tegner Museum

Evren Tekinoktay brings neon and a sense of home to Tegner Museum

As you enter the exhibition at Rudolph Tegner Museum, you are met with both the monumental and the intimate: Rudolph Tegner’s vast sculptures and Evren Tekinoktay’s “geometric surrealism” in neon, plexiglass and mirror glass.

With this exhibition, Evren Tekinoktay seeks to bring the “living room” into the vast museum space at Tegner Museum. She creates poetic landscapes from constructed, found and transformed objects in glass cases, and evokes a sense of home through a sculptural arrangement of tiles.

Throughout the exhibition, you will see yourself, the artworks and Tegner’s monumental sculptures reflected in the many mirrors – your movements visible from every angle in the museum space.

Aesthetics as more than surface

Evren Tekinoktay approaches aesthetics as an absolute necessity in her artistic practice. The exhibition is named after the scorpion, which has a sensitive network of nerves beneath its body, allowing it to detect vibrations in the ground with great precision.

As you move through the exhibition, you will, like the scorpion, register impressions and movements through mirrors, neon and reflective surfaces. In this way, aesthetics becomes more than mere surface – it is the underlying principle of the exhibition.

Evren Tekinoktay

Evren Tekinoktay (b. 1972, Copenhagen) was educated in Amsterdam, Maastricht and Copenhagen and has exhibited widely across Europe. In 2025, she presented the solo exhibition BOOGIE at Nikolaj Kunsthal.