Selected Exhibitions
2025
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Rooting Recipes, Habibi Kiosk-Kammerspiele Munich, April 2025
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Unarchiving performance, Perform Istanbul, October 2025
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2024
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Ungovernable Ingredients, Group Exhibition, Silent Green, Berlin
Ne Ä°lyas Ne CemÅŸit, Solo Exhibition, Perform Ä°stanbul, Turkey
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2023
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Everything will be just like now – just a little different, Künstlerhaus Bregenz, Austria, December 2023
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Kunstraum Kreuzberg: Beyond Home, June 2023
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Gate 27, Ayvalik, August-September 2023
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Nesin Art Village, September , 2023
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2022
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YARAT CENTRE: IN A MULTIPLE-PERSPECTIVE GROUP EXHIBITION
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Beautiful Diaspora / You Are Not the Lesser Part
MoCP: Museum of Contemporary Photography Chicago, Mar 3 — Jun 26, 2022.
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Vulnerable Critters, La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain, May 2022
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Time to Sing a New Song, Solo Exhibition,
Galerie Auslage, Berlin, Germany, April 2022.
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2021
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Raisin / Chicago Architecture Biennial, Chicago
Arnis International Residency and Exhibition, Arnis, Germany
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2020
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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
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2019
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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
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2018
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Contemporary Istanbul, Mixer, Istanbul
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TeÅŸbihte Hata Olmaz, Mixer Gallery, Istanbul
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2017
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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
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2016
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Choreography of A Court Case, Mo.e, Vienna
Art of Disagreement, Salt Galata, Istanbul
Time to Sing a New Song, YAMA Video Space, Istanbul
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2015
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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
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2014
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Solo exhibition, Infamous Library, Rampa Gallery, Istanbul
Group Exhibition, Delfina Foundation, London
Rundlauf (Roundwalk) Bochum, Germany
Theater Der Welt Festival, Germany
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2013
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Solo exhibition, Reverse Corner, Egeran Gallery, Istanbul
Snapshot, 11. Sharjah Biennial, Sharjah, UAE
Penelopolis, Montenegro
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2012
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Change Will Be Terrific!, SALT BeyoÄŸlu, Istanbul, Turkey
Istanbul Agora, SESC Pompeia, São Paulo, Brazil
A MacGuffin and Some Other Things, Project Art Center, Dublin, Ireland
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Previous
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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
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​Perform Istanbul, Artist Residency, 2025
Nesin Art Village, Artist Residency, 2023.
Arnis Art Residency, Arnis, 2021.
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The School of The Art Institute of Chicago
Distinguished Alumni Award, Chicago, 2018
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Delfina Foundation Residency
London, 2014
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Best Turkish Contemporary Artist, Full Art Prize, Grand prize co-winner, 2012, Istanbul
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SAHA Foundation, Grand Winner
2014
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Spot Production Fund, Grand winner,
Istanbul, 2012
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Hardware Media Art Residency
Dortmund, 2010
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My City Project, British Council Istanbul
Project Winner
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Platform Garanti Sanat Residency
Istanbul, 2009
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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
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2024, Book chapter
Collaboration and Dialogue in Artistic Research. In: Doing and Being Together: Cases from Media Studies. IPCC 21, Routledge Companion.
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2024, Journal article
RESEARCH CATALOGUE:
AN INTERNATIONAL DATABASE FOR ARTISTIC RESEARCH
ARTISTIC CONNECTIVITY UNFOLDING
https://doi.org/10.22501/rc.1953710
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Another Way (BaÅŸka Türlü), in collaboration with Nesin Art Village
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2023, Book chapter
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2021, PhD
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2021, Book
Art and Feminisms published by UdK
Free download link:
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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
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2020, Book Chapter​
The Aesthetics of Protest: Visual Culture and Communication, Amsterdam University Press (AUP),
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2017, Journal Article
Seeing the Belly Dance as a Feminist Possibility: Gaze, Gender and Public Space in İstanbul
Women2000,
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(2013-2016), Weekly Column at Radikal Newspaper, Turkey
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2011, Artist Book​
Under The Same Roof, Book, Istanbul
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2011, Book Chapter
From Coal to Culture, My city Project Book, Istanbul
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Don't Fall of While Playing in the Street, My City journal, 2010
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If This Exhibition Doesn't Wake Them Up IT Is Not My Fault, Boot Print, Issue II,
November 2008, St. Louis, USA
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For Sale, Art-Ist Contemporary Art Magazine, Issue 6, Spring 2007, Istanbul,
Turkey
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A Conversation with Fatos Ustek, Boot Print, Volume I, Issue 1, St. Louis, USA
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Public Art Practices and Temporary Services, Arredamento, Summer Issue, 2006,
Istanbul, Turkey
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Community Art Practices, Sanat Dünyamiz, Issue 97, January 2005, Istanbul,
Turkey