ABOUT
“I am memorizing every event to my memory while my senses are wide open recording everyone’s conversations. Aware or not, all these records leave their mark on me. Things happening around me, things I’ve heard, listened, said, seen, thought, done, been unable to say, wanted to hear, wanted to say, wanted to see, wanted to do, wanted to be… This intensity, this excess cannot be digested after a while and needs a way for expression.”
These works, based on myself, focus on the disguised and the invisible which are sometimes masked out and other times cumulated inside. By the effort to read the text as a plastic item and the instinct that develops as a counter reading progress, language and the writing break loose from its saying and directs itself as an instrument that has to be seen and not to be read. This allows the constitution of a paradoxical space between the vision and the speech much like overlapping layers and sound turning into noise.
1984, lives and works in Istanbul
Academic
Education
2002-2006, BA, Marmara University Fine Arts Faculty Painting Department
2006-2009, MA, Marmara University Fine Arts Institute Painting Department
2012-2017, PhD, Marmara University Fine Arts Institute Painting Department
2013-2014, PhD, Universidad de Complutense Fine Arts Department (exchange student)
Solo exhibitions
2019 “Definitely Maybe”, Galeri Aydın, Istanbul
2018 “Out!” Mekan Blogspot, Balikesir
2012 “Levantando Capas” Galeria La Pan, Barcelona,
2010 “Between the things” ALANistanbul
2008 “Ben-lik”, Tiyatro-z gallery, Istanbul
Group exhibitions
2018 “Anı Bellek” Galeri Aydın, Istanbul
2017 “A4 Nedir?”, Cumhuriyet Museum, Istanbul
2017 “Istanbul Codex”, Imago Mundi Collection, Biennale Arcipelago Mediterraneo, Palermo
2016 “1Sergi” Mügsf, Istanbul
2015 “Pasteller Hazır mı?” Bant Mag, Istanbul
2015 “Exit”, Galeri Ark, Istanbul
2014 “Contra art fair”, The Old Truman Brewery, London
2014 “Locality and Global discourse” Cumhuriyet Museum, Istanbul
2014 “El Descanso del Guerrero”, SanFest, Madrid
2014 Festival Salalacalle, Madrid
2014 “Haciendo Barrios”, Conde Duque, Madrid
2014 “Expresionismo en Proceso”, 1+1 play, sin animo de nombre, Madrid
2014 “Contemporary Palimpsest”, California
2013 “Detached Steps”, Mugsf, Istanbul
2012 “in search for the new”, Armaggan Gallery, Istanbul
2012 “Ikametgah Kadıköy2”,Hush, Baris Manco Cultural Center, Istanbul
2012 “Black Dragon” Milk Gallery, Istanbul
2012 “Ikametgah Kadıköy”, Asfaltart Gallery, Istanbul
2012 “Bir”, Armaggan gallery, Istanbul
2011 “1+1=11”, Tamtam ART, Berlin
2011 Takt Kunstprojektraum open studios, Berlin
2011 “Destroy Istanbul”, Neurotitan Gallery, Berlin
2010 “Lives and Works in Istanbul”, projects exhibition, Sanat Limani Art Centre, Istanbul
2010 “In between-arada-tra “, Antoni Muntadas workshops exhibition, Tophane-i Amire, Istanbul
2008 “We need fresh minds”, Tershane, Istanbul
2006 Prof. Tayfun Erdogmus studio exhibition, Goethe Institut, Istanbul
2006 “El/le” 2005-2006 Academic year graduation projects exhibition, Pera Museum, Istanbul
Collection
Istanbul Codex, Imago Mundi Luciano Benetton Collection, Italy
Workshops
2014 “Locality and global discours” conducted by Mugsf & Cca, US-TR
2013 “Multiculturalism and Identitiy” conducted by Mugsf & Cca, US-TR
2013 “Conversation in painting” conducted by: Margo Slomp & Anke Coumans, Istanbul
2013 “Artist book and simple bookstructures”, conducted by: Lennart Mand, Istanbul
2010 “Poloplast and Pixilasyon workshop”, conducted by Michael Carrington, Kurye video
2009 “In between istanbul”, conducted by Antoni Muntadas, Istanbul
2009 “Camera obscura theatre”, conducted by Jochen Proehl, Istanbul
2006 “Borrowed rooms”, wood print workshop, conducted by Wolfgang Pills, Istanbul
2004 “Zapping”, conducted by Emre Zeytinoğlu, Istanbul
2003 “Camera obscura”, conducted by Jochen Proehl, Istanbul
Residency:
2012 apr.-may Pantocrátor Gallery / La Pan, Barcelona
2011 oct. Takt Kunstprojektraum artist residency program, Berlin