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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 KreuzbergBeyond 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 

Circulating Narratives – Entangling Communities: Case Studies in Global Performance Art, Hamburger Bahnhof 

2020

His TV, Errant Sound, Berlin

The Interview, Bilsart Video Art Space, Istanbul

Sharjah Biennial Film Program

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

Die Büehne, Berlin 

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

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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

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

Collaboration and Dialogue in Artistic Research. In: Doing and Being Together: Cases from Media Studies. IPCC 21, Routledge Companion. 

2024, E-book 

Another Way (Başka Türlü), in collaboration with Nesin Art Village

2023, Book chapter

Crisis and Activism as Performance. In: Aneta Mancewicz, Ralf Remshardt (Eds.), Contemporary European Theatre and Performance, Routledge Companion.

2021, PhD 

Title: From A Political Protest To An Art Exhibition: Building Interconnectedness Through Dialogue-Based Art

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

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

High on Contemporary Art,

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

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