Cihan Çakmak: “I’ll come and kick down the door”

In the 260th episode of And what are you doing on the weekend? the artist Cihan Çakmak is a guest. She was born in Osterholz-Scharmbeck in 1993 and grew up in Worpswede. Today she lives in Berlin-Lichterfelde and in Lisbon.

She was awarded the Paula Modersohn Becker Young Talent Prize and the Rössing Prize for Photography. In summer and autumn 2026, the Museum Morsbroich in Leverkusen will show Cihan Çakmak’s solo exhibition like a warrior. The Berlin gallery Eigen & Art has also been showing her work since July. In the podcast she tells how she… Berlin cares for her bergamot trees and her pomelo plant.

Your weekend begins with writing down your dreams. When she’s in Lisbon, she starts it with a walk to the sea and sits with a coffee under her favorite rubber tree in the park. In Berlin she makes vegan pancakes for breakfast and then listens to an opera singer who sings in her shared apartment on Sundays. In a conversation with Ubin Eoh and Christoph Amend, Cihan Çakmak also reveals how she became an artist, why she relaxes when she draws – and since when she has been able to make a living from her art.

For the weekend, Cihan Çakmak, Ubin Eoh and Christoph Amend recommend:

Cihan Cakmak
Places:

• Barkenhoff in Worpswede
• The Royal Garden Academy in Dahlem
• The Jardim do Príncipe Real in Lisbon
• The Anjos district in Lisbon
• The city of Cascais on the Atlantic, Portugal

Eat:

• Pancake baking mix
• Salty-sweet garlic wedges for baking from Knack & Back with garlic cream and apricot jam

Music:

• The experimental jazz band Conic Rose
• The Italian singer-songwriter Marco Castello
• The ambient folk duo Aspidistrafly from Singapore
• The Norwegian duo Smerz

Books:

• Good girl by Aria Aber
• Time of the monsters by Seyda Kurt

Games:

Ubin

• Margarete Stokowski’s column in the Pharmacy look around

Christopher

• The song Soda lemon by the Viennese rapper Bibiza
• The film Paula about Paula Modersohn-Becker

You can now find all the recommendations from our guests in Germany on our interactive map. You can reach the team at wochenende@zeit.de.