Month: December 2015

 Dignity of Digging, videoloop, 2013

Ferhat Kamil Satıcı, borned in Kilis 1973, live and works in Mardin.  He co-founded “Videoist” a video art initiative with Hulya Ozdemir. He uses the nickname “YeniAnıt”, at art shows.

“Crossing Axis /YeniAnıt/HakanKırdar, M1886, Ankara 2015 / “Yeni Anıt/New Colossus: Shattered fingers of a Stone Worker” at 5533 Istanbul, 2009 / ”Yeni Anıt: New Colossus:Grafiti with Gravity” at Kiosk 24 , Herford, Germany, 2007 / Portizmir3 “Its Enough!” Tobacco Ware House  İzmir 2013 / 3rd Çanakkale Bienal “Fictions and Dissentions” Çanakkale 2012 / 1st Mardin Bienal “Abbarakadabra”  Mardin, 2011 /  Machine raum festival for digital culture, Vejle Kunstmuseum,  Danmark, 2011 /  CityScale,Lotringer13,Munich,Germany,2010 /  Relief Valve,George Jones Memorial Farm,U.S.A,2010 / Heyday,Diffusion of İnventions,İstanbul,Turkey,2010 / Public İdea,5533,İstanbul,Turkey,2010 / Two Shadows Of “The Public”:Screen and Space,Depo,İstanbul,Turkey,2010

“Yeni Anıt” is translated “New Colossus” from English to Turkish.  It is a book name  mentioned by author Paul Auster’s novel so-called Leviathan. 

ferhatsatici@gmail.com, www.yenianit.blogspot.com

After his studies of engineering, Serkan Taycan completed a master-class on documentary photography at Nordens Fotoskola, Sweden. He completed his MFA degree in Visual Arts at Sabancı University, Istanbul and in Photography at Aalto University, Helsinki. He concentrates on the ever-changing relationship of urban and rural spaces, consequences of these changes, future projections and the people who are affected by these processes of transformation. He works primarily with photography and maps, also engages with walking. His work has been exhibited in various biennials and venues, among which: Venice Architectural Biennial, Istanbul Biennial, Helsinki Photography Biennial, Sinop Biennial and Thessaloniki Photography Biennale as well as St.Petersburg Russian National Centre of Photography, Malmö Museum and Photographic Center Northwest Seattle. Taycan is a member of RecCollective. He lives and works in Istanbul.

serkantaycan@gmail.com

1983 born in Diyarbakır, lives and works in İstanbul.

Some of his group exhibitions since 2008 including (2015) ESSL Art Award Cee 2015 İstanbul,Turkey, Akbank Contemporary Artists Prize Exhibition İstanbul Turkey,  Art Video Koeln Germany, Winterwolven Radicals, Roodkapje, Rotterdam The Netherlands, (2011) Where Fire Has Struck,Human Rights Foundation of Turkey 20th Year Exhibitions, TütünDeposu, Istanbul, Turkey, (2010) Gerilimler, Saison Video, Lille France, IDs Please, Cer Modern AnkaraTurkey, (2009) Amsterdam Biennial, Istanbul Pavilion, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Global Fair & Festival Celebration, International Exchange Program Exhibition,S.Korea, ROK.

memetogut@gmail.com

Insel Inal is a graduate of Mimar Sinan Fine Arts Faculty, Ceramics Department (1993). Inal holds degrees in art from Marmara University, MFA 1993 Thesis: Fluxus, PhD 2002 Thesis; “The Relations Between Production and Consumption in Contemporary Turkish Art and the Problems in These Relations” He organized several projects which included interdisciplinary organization and panels. He became president of the Interdisciplinary Young Artists Association in 1996. Inal has joined many solo and group exhibitions in Turkey and abroad. His ceramic sculptures have been included in various collections His architectural ceramics and sculpture is represented in private and public collections.

İnal, recently participated in International Sinop & Çanakkale Biennials. Inal is the Head of Ceramics Department, Kocaeli University Fine Art Faculty and he also teaches “Contemporary Art and Photography” courses in Mimar Sinan University and Yeditepe  University for undergraduate and graduate programs.

inselinal@gmail.com

 

1985 born in Diyarbakır, lives and works between Diyarbakır and Istanbul. She started her photography life in 2007 with her two artworks that stand against of the fashion industry at International Fashion Film Festival (Istanbul). Then, here are the names of some group andcollective exhibitions that the artist had artworks in them; Photomonth Photofair (London-2008), Anti-Nuclear Art (İstanbul & İzmir-2008), Explicit (2009, KargartIstanbul), Subliminal (2010- 6:45Istanbul), Body and Forms (2011-AsmaSanat, Istanbul), PaperGirl(2011 – Istanbul), Exhibition As Animal (2011- Milk Gallery Istanbul), Child Brides / My Daddy Doesn’t Love Me (Istanbul Haliç Kongre Merkezi– Barış İçin Bilim Konferansı), Child Brides / My Daddy Doesn’t Love Me (The BrickLane Gallery, Londra 2012), İzmir ArtLandsContemporary Photography (2013, İzmir), Yakın Menzil -Close Quarters (İstanbul Modern Sanat Müzesi, 2013), Tomorrow All Alone (MixerArts, 2014), Gobsmacked (Gallery İlayda, 2015); she has two concept solo exhibitions as “Wet Poem” (La Boom, 2014), “Dichomoty Of Past and Future” (Archive, 2014). And lastly, she made a video installation called ‘MiddleDaughter of Sahmeran‘ that shown at the 3rd Mardin Biennial.

dbozyel@gmail.com

1979 born in Istanbul, livesandworks in İstanbul.

 10 solo exhibitions since 2001 including “Diminishing Time” (2015, Galata Greek Primary School, İstanbul, Turkey), “Grey Corridor” (2013 Cite Internationale Des Arts, Paris, France), “4/12: Topography of a House” (2011, Daire Gallery, İstanbul, Turkey) and group exhibitionsamong 80 local and international exhibitions including “Raptures and Convergences” (2014, Kuad Gallery, İstanbul, Turkey), “3rd International Çanakkale Biennial” (2012, Çanakkale, Turkey), “Where Fire Has Struck” (2011, Depo, İstanbul, Turkey). 

cagrisaray@gmail.com