you place me, taste me, consume and replace me, 2026

Oysters cast from money coins (€€) (copper)

variable dimensions 

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Oysters cast from 10- and 20-cent coins appear as golden, precious artefacts within the exhibition space. Positioned between luxury and everyday circulation, they oscillate between commodity and treasure, consumption and display. Their gleaming surfaces suggest exclusivity, while their material points to something ordinary, exchangeable, and widely accessible.

The work explores how value is produced and how closely it is tied to notions of taste. Neither the monetary value of the coins nor the form of the oyster determines a fixed meaning. Instead, the objects shift between material, gesture, and cultural projection. What appears desirable, valuable, or refined emerges through context, perception, and shared systems of meaning.

The oyster functions as a symbol of an object whose status depends on performance and attribution. Like taste itself, its value remains unstable: constructed, affirmed, consumed, and replaced. The work proposes meaning not as something inherent, but as something continuously negotiated between object, context, and viewer.​

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Part of the Group Exhibition POST TASTE 

​„Geschmack ist niemals unschuldig.“

​Was wir als schön, hässlich oder trendy empfinden, ist weit mehr als nur eine Vorliebe- es ist ein Code, mit dem wir unsere Identität performen. In einer Welt voller Fragmente navigieren wir durch High und Low, Authentisches und Fake. Doch was bedeutet „Geschmack“ heute noch, wenn jede unserer Entscheidungen gleichzeitig zum Datenpunkt in einem Überwachungssystem wird?

Die Klasse von Prof. Yeşim Akdeniz (Kunstakademie Düsseldorf) lädt ein zur Gruppenausstellung Post Taste.