I am a Turkish artist living in Switzerland and working internationally. After my graduation from the Department of Fine Arts of Marmara University in 1991, I went to USA to pursue my art and to deepen my view of world.
Then I moved to Switzerland, where I am still living and continuing my art on an international base.
Additionally I did my MAS in 2013 at the Zürich Fine Arts University (ZhdK) in Curating. As a graduation project I curated the 1. International Bodrum Biennial in Bodrum, Turkey with the parcipitation of the 30 international and 50 national artists.
My art has its roots deep in my consciousness and in the mystical art. Art has never been a superficial appearance of reality for me. But rather it is an expression of inner worlds. I use materials like sand, organic pieces found in nature, wax, gips, fabric which lets my conciousness into play in a spontanous way. I believe an artist by creating and with her art works can lead the viewer to the mystical worlds not seen but known with inner knowledge.
When I start working, I begin with a dialogue with the materials : they speak, they have a language of their own and from this a dialogue develops between me and the materials. Then a kind of struggle begins between the idea which I am trying to express and the material form that I want to give it. The development and the changes are dictated by the picture itself. Hence my method of working becomes an inescapable dialogue between the original idea, arising from everyday feelings and the materials.
Education
2011-2013 Zürich Kunsthochschule, MAS in Curating
1986-1991 Marmara University, Istanbul. Department of Fine Arts (painting)
Exhibitions
2024 Die Kunst Messe (Art Fair), Haus der Begegnung, Grenzach, DE, 9 th -16th of June
2023 Die Kleine Formate Ausstellung (the small formats exhibition) in Kunstraum Basel, 8 th of December- 14 th of January
2023 Die Kunst Ausstellung (the art exhibition), Haus der Begegnung , Grenzach.
2022 The Art Exhibition Trotte Arlesheim, Baselland, November 4th- 13th
2022 Kunstraum Kieswerk, Kunst Auf der Rennbahn, Weil am Rhein, DE Oktober 8th-18th
2022 Art Exhibition, Haus der Begegnung, Grenzach, DE Sep. 18th – 25 th
2021 Solo Exhibition Gallery Kunst Unter Uns, Lörrach June 5th- 30 th
2018 Solo Exhibition Gallery Art-B-Gallery 8-20th February, Basel
2017 Art in Gundeli, Basel, Kunst im Alltag Feb 03th -17
2014 Kunst in Szene, Lörrach, Germany, Art Event, November 29th-Dezember 2015
2012 ZhdK, CAS Ausstelung 07th -09th May, Zürich
2013 Curator of the 1st international Bodrum Biennial
2012 Gallery Espas, Istanbul, Solo Show, March 8th-30th
2011 1st International Izmir Art Biennial , Guest Artist , May 4th -11th
2010 December Art Fair , Group Show Vis a vis Hadid Pavillon im Dreiländergarten Mattrain 5, Weil Am Rhein.
2010 Chelsea Art Museum Group Show , 556 W. 22nd St. 11 th Avenue , New York
2010 8th of March The International Women` Day , Astoria , Gayrettepe Istanbul
2009 Xtreme X-treme X-terios Ehhibition Duarte Square , New York
2008 Art Blitz 115 Mercer Street , New York
2008 Villa Kassandra , July to February, Switzerland
2007 Ekim Gecidi 6, Gallery X, Istanbul
2007 Ankara Art Forum, Ankara
2006 Gallery X, Istanbul (solo, Okt. 10–30)
2006 December Gallery Daniel Tanner Group Exhibition, Basel
2006 Ekim Gecidi 5 , Gallery X , Istanbul
2005 Gallery Daniel Tanner Solo Exhibition , Basel
2005 Ekim Gecidi 4, Gallery X, Istanbul
2005 Art-Lounge no.4, Ostquai, Basel
2004 Gallerie Daniel Tanner, St-Alban Vorstadt 44, Basel (solo, Feb. 4 — March 14)
2001 Gallery X, 23 W 129th St, New York (solo)
2000 X-treme X-teriors X-hibition, The third annual Marcus Garvey Park Art Show, Madison Ave., 120-124th Str., New York
2000 Koridor, Turkish-American Federation, 236 Fifth Ave., New York
1999 Gallery X, 23 W 129th St, New York
1999 X-treme X-teriors, Marcus Garvey Park, Madison Ave., 120-124th Str., New York. In preparation of the Harlem Biennial 2001
1997 Ward-Nasse Gallery, 178 Prince Str. (SoHo), New York
1997 At 14 Leroy St. and 7th Ave., Greenwich Village, New York
1994 Tewksbury Art Festival, Boston. Second prize winner
1993 Kartal Art Festival, Istanbul
1992 Kiz Kulesi (Maiden Tower) Group Exhibition, Istanbul
1991 Mod-Art Gallery, Istanbul
1990 The Group Exhibition The Museum of Journalism and Public Broadcasting, Istanbul
Articles, Citations, Other Events
- Regio TV Plus, Birsstadt TV,November 4th 2022
- Daily News, Hurriyet, March 19th 2012
- Regio Kultur Article 04.12.2010
- Cumhuriyet Zeitung, 16. Okt., 2006
- Katalog, Ekim Gecidi 5, 2006
- Hürriyet Zeitung, 28. Sept. 2005
- Katalog, Ekim Gecidi 4, 2005
- Basler Zeitung, 5. Feb., 2004
- NY Arts Magazine, by E. Snow, p. 35, February 2001 issue
- The New York Art World, by L. Faust, p. 19, February 2001 issue
- Cells (March 2000 issue), Cocoon (January 2000 issue),
- Light Millennium e-Magazine: see http://www.lightmillennium.org
- Gallery X 1998-1999 Catalog, Turkish American Women’s Alliance Youth Council, TiD, 1999
- „Three painters & three interviews“, Art Talk TV Program (prod. Yavuz Öztop),
- Queens Public TV, New York, 1995
