Selected Exhibitions
2024
Ne İlyas Ne Cemşit, Solo Exhibition, Perform İstanbul, Turkey
2023
Everything will be just like now – just a little different, Künstlerhaus Bregenz, Austria, December 2023
Kunstraum Kreuzberg: Beyond Home, June 2023
Gate 27, Ayvalik, August-September 2023
Nesin Art Village, September 30, 2023
2022
YARAT CENTRE: IN A MULTIPLE-PERSPECTIVE GROUP EXHIBITION
Beautiful Diaspora / You Are Not the Lesser Part
MoCP: Museum of Contemporary Photography Chicago, Mar 3 — Jun 26, 2022.
Vulnerable Critters, La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain, May 2022
Time to Sing a New Song, Solo Exhibition,
Galerie Auslage, Berlin, Germany, April 2022.
2021
Raisin / Chicago Architecture Biennial, Chicago
Arnis International Residency and Exhibition, Arnis, Germany
2020
His TV, Errant Sound, Berlin
The Interview, Bilsart Video Art Space, Istanbul
Istanbul Biennial Film Program
Printed Re-visited, Mixer, Istanbul
Der Zeit ihre Kunst, Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden, Germany
2019
Die Enden der Freiheit, Halle 14, Leipzig, Germany
Standard, Eldem Art Space, Eskisehir, Turkey
Standard, ADAS Istanbul
Art Souterrain, Montreal, Canada
Akaretler Art Week, Merdiven Art Space, Istanbul
Come On, Plato Sanat, Istanbul
2018
Contemporary Istanbul, Mixer, Istanbul
Teşbihte Hata Olmaz, Mixer Gallery, Istanbul
2017
Pluto’s Kitchen, Block Universe Performance Art Festival, London
After The Fact, Propaganda in 21st Century, Lenbachhaus Museum, Munich
House of Wisdom, Dzialdov, Berlin
A room of Our Own, ARK Kültür, Istanbul
2016
Choreography of A Court Case, Mo.e, Vienna
Art of Disagreement, Salt Galata, Istanbul
Time to Sing a New Song, YAMA Video Space, Istanbul
2015
Art of Disagreement, Solo Exhibition, Salt Ulus, Ankara & Salt Galata Istanbul
Mother Tongue, Group exhibition, 3,14, Bergen, Norway
3rd Mardin Biennial, Mardin, Turkey
Everything You Want to Know About Love and Art, Performance, Istanbul Culture and Arts Foundation
Printed, MixerArts, Istanbul
2014
Solo exhibition, Infamous Library, Rampa Gallery, Istanbul
Group Exhibition, Delfina Foundation, London
Rundlauf (Roundwalk) Bochum, Germany
Theater Der Welt Festival, Germany
2013
Solo exhibition, Reverse Corner, Egeran Gallery, Istanbul
Snapshot, 11. Sharjah Biennial, Sharjah, UAE
Penelopolis, Montenegro
2012
Change Will Be Terrific!, SALT Beyoğlu, Istanbul, Turkey
Istanbul Agora, SESC Pompeia, São Paulo, Brazil
A MacGuffin and Some Other Things, Project Art Center, Dublin, Ireland
Previous
ISEA 2010 Ruhr Exhibition, Dortmund, Germany (2010)
End Game, LoopSpace Seoul, South Korea (2010)
Explaining The Joke, Performance Studies Conference, Zagreb, Croatia (2009)
11th Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey (2009)
Awards- Residencies
The School of The Art Institute of Chicago
Distinguished Alumni Award, Chicago, 2018
Delfina Foundation Residency
London, 2014
Best Turkish Contemporary Artist, Full Art Prize, Grand prize co-winner, 2012, Istanbul
SAHA Foundation, Grand Winner
2014
Spot Production Fund, Grand winner,
Istanbul, 2012
Hardware Media Art Residency
Dortmund, 2010
My City Project, British Council Istanbul
Project Winner
Platform Garanti Sanat Residency
Istanbul, 2009
Boots Gallery Residency,
St. Louis, USA, 2008
Publications
2024, Book
Global Protests Through Art collaboration, co-creation, interconnectedness, published by Books People Places and Universität der Künste Berlin
2024, Book chapter
Another Way (Başka Türlü), in collaboration with Nesin Art Village
2023, Book chapter
2021, PhD
2021, Book
Art and Feminisms published by UdK
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2021, Journal Article
CSPA Quarterly, Center for Sustainable Practice in The Arts
Circles of Emotional Connection, Maybe We Will Benefit From Our Neighbour’s Good Fortune
2020, Book Chapter
The Aesthetics of Protest: Visual Culture and Communication, Amsterdam University Press (AUP),
2017, Journal Article
Seeing the Belly Dance as a Feminist Possibility: Gaze, Gender and Public Space in İstanbul
Women2000,
(2013-2016), Weekly Column at Radikal Newspaper, Turkey
2011, Artist Book
Under The Same Roof, Book, Istanbul
2011, Book Chapter
From Coal to Culture, My city Project Book, Istanbul
Don't Fall of While Playing in the Street, My City journal, 2010
If This Exhibition Doesn't Wake Them Up IT Is Not My Fault, Boot Print, Issue II,
November 2008, St. Louis, USA
For Sale, Art-Ist Contemporary Art Magazine, Issue 6, Spring 2007, Istanbul,
Turkey
A Conversation with Fatos Ustek, Boot Print, Volume I, Issue 1, St. Louis, USA
Public Art Practices and Temporary Services, Arredamento, Summer Issue, 2006,
Istanbul, Turkey
Community Art Practices, Sanat Dünyamiz, Issue 97, January 2005, Istanbul,
Turkey