Influenced by specific sites, histories and geographies[2] Ayşe Erkmen's works takes the social and physical environment that she is in.
[7] In 2002, she received the Maria Sibylla Merian Prize of the Ministry for Science and Art of the Hesse state government.
She graduated from Academy of Fine Arts, Istanbul, Department of Sculpture in 1977[3] where she studied in Sadi Çalık studio.
The tension may come from the result of this switch of context or the effort to balance the form and function while creating the work.
"[2]Since 1977 Ayşe Erkmen "has worked with rooms, walls, floors, ceilings, windows, doors, basements, building facades, roofs, overhead lights, a skylight and an elevator, among others.
"[11] Erkmen's research based projects include physical structures but also their use, history, cultural and political connotations.
In addition, the artist pointed out problems of a sociological and city-planning nature: How are borders drawn on maps, and how is sociocultural access achieved on the drawing board?