Biography

1960 born in Istanbul, Turkey
1980-1986 Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, Austria
1986–1991 University of Applied Arts Vienna, Austria
Artist in residence in USA, Finland, Turkey, and the Netherlands
Since 2003 Teaching at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, Austria
Institute of Artistic Sciences, Art Education and Communication / I. KKK
Department of Design, Architecture and Environment for Art Education / DAE
2005–2006 Professorship at the University of Art und Industrial Design Linz, Austria, Institute of Art and Design
Lives and works in Vienna

Solo Exhibitions

2017 UPRISE ile hiç, Nev Gallery, Ankara, Turkey
2015 modular CONSTRUCTION, Viktor Bucher Project Space, Vienna, Austria
dual CONSTRUCTION, artON Istanbul, Turkey
2014 SPACE OF PRESENCE, Mekan 68, Vienna, Austria
Selâm_MEKȂN, Foundation Katara, Doha, Qatar
2013 Reconstructive memory / Yeniden kuran bellek, Nev Gallery, Ankara, Turkey
2012 Spatial memory / Uzamsal bellek, Operation Room by American Hospital Art Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey (catalogue)
moment_space / an_uzam, Apel Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey
2011 covalent bonding, Freihaus Gallery, Villach, Austria
2009 NONPLACE dot, Sankt Georg Gallery, Istanbul
2007 KiTÂBESi dot / INSCRIPTION dot,AKBANK Sanat,  Istanbul, Turkey (catalogue) CANEViNE dot, Nev Gallery, Ankara, Turkey
2004 yurt tutmusch dot, MAK – Austrian Museum of Applied Arts/Contemporary Art, Study Collection, Vienna, Austria (catalogue)
HOMELIKE dot, Atrium ed Arte Gallery, Vienna, Austria
Canan Dagdelen, Atelier Berndt Gallery, Wolfsberg, Austria
soyut. somut.,Akbank Sanat, Istanbul , Turkey
2001 at home, Gallery 1756, Chicago; Concordia Gallery, New York, USA (catalogue)
at home, Apel Gallery,  Istanbul, Turkey
2000 CHILDHOOD white DREAMS, Atrium ed Arte Gallery, Vienna, Austria
SELF white EVIDENT, Urart Gallery,  Istanbul, Turkey
red/white, Siyah Beyaz Gallery, Ankara, Turkey
1997 WRITE white OUT II, Urart Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey
analog II, Objekta Gallery, Kreuzlingen, Switzerland (with D. Schellhorn)
1996 analog, Ceramic Arts Gallery, Vienna, Austria (with D. Schellhorn)
WRITE white OUT, Atrium ed Arte Gallery, Vienna, Austria
1995 bir yazida seramik, Urart Gallery, Ankara, Turkey
Unart Gallery, Villach, Austria
scrittura e ceramica, Spatia Gallery, Bolzano, Italy (catalogue)
von Schale zu Bild, Friesacher Gallery, Bruneck, Italy
1994 Joseph-Greising-Saal, Würzburg, Germany (with Z. Saribatur)
1993 ceramic ductus, Gallery 1756, Chicago, USA
Schriftsteller, Looshaus, Vienna, Austria
1992 Der keramische Duktus, Ceramic Arts Gallery, Vienna, Austria (catalogue)
bir kalemde seramik, Zebra Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey

Selected Group Exhibitions

2020 Malzeminin Hafifliği / Lightness of the Material, Arton Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey
2019 Closer to strange, with Giuliana Natali, Palazzo Ducale, Mantova, Italy (catalogue)
Vertical Space, with Kemal Seyhan, Mekan 68, Vienna, Austria
the PART and the WHOLE / PARÇA BÜTÜN, Arton Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey (catalogue)
The Ghosts of Sunday Morning / 50th anniversary of EKWC, Design Museum den Bosch, The Netherlands (catalogue)
BEST OF 20 YEARS_, Projektraum Viktor Bucher, Vienna, Austria
Golden age / Altın çağ, Nev Gallary, Ankara, Turkey
2018 The 1990s – A Viennese Divan, Das Wien Museum MUSA, Vienna, Austria (catalogue)
CERAMICS NOW! – 60. Premio Faenza, MIC The International Museum of Ceramics in Faenza, Italy (catalogue)
Encounter #03, Projektraum Viktor Bucher, Vienna, Austria
nostospektif V, Apel Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey
Toprak ve Lif 2018, 20th year`s final exhibition, Apel Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey

2016 Augen-Blicke, Museum Liaunig, Neuhaus/Suha, Austria (catalogue)
When home won´t let you stay, Refectory Heiligenkreuzer Hof, Vienna, Austria (catalogue)
Canan Dagdelen, Ahmet Oran, Kemal Seyhan, Ekrem Yalcindag, mekan 68, Vienna, Austria
Memory and Continuity / A selection from the Huma Kabakçı Collection, Pera Museum, Istanbul, Turkey (catalogue)
2015 Artists in their time, Istanbul Modern Museum of Modern Art Istanbul, Turkey (catalogue)
Keramik Preise 2015, Traklhaus Gallery, Salzburg, Austria (catalogue)
CROSS BORDERS, Masc Foundation, Vienna, Austria (catalogue)
OUR WOUNDS, OUR BALLADS, artOn Istanbul, Turkey
2014 1984, Nev Gallery, Ankara, Turkey
ODTÜ Sanat 15,
Middle East Technical University METU, Ankara, Turkey (catalogue)
2013 Signs Taken in Wonder / Searching for contemporary Istanbul,
MAK Austrian Museum of Applied Arts / Contemporary Art, Exhibition Hall, Vienna, Austria (catalogue)
Past and Future / Geçmiş ve Gelecek, , Istanbul Museum of Modern Art Istanbul, Turkey (catalogue)
The first ten years of the LENTOS, Lentos Museum of Modern Art Linz, Austria
Sampling – Konzert der Skulpturen, Ossiach Abbey, Ossiach, Austria
2011 Dream and Reality, Modern and Contemporary Women Artists from Turkey, Istanbul Museum of Modern Art Istanbul, Turkey (catalogue)
The Collection: 1900-2011, 11 Spaces, 11 Decades, 11 Interventions, Lentos Museum of Modern Art Linz, Austria
Sieben Grenzgänge, Wittgenstein House, Vienna, Austria
The [Secret] Return of Noever, New Ace Museum on La Brea, Los Angeles, USA
4th International Egeart Art Days, Ege University, İzmir, Turkey
2010 ‘Mahya’ Competition / Lightinstallation of texts for mosques, New Mosque, Hünkar Pavilion, Istanbul, Turkey, (catalogue)
eingeschrieben, Hölzl Gallery, Düsseldorf, Germany
AbbaraKaddabra, 1st Biennal of Mardin, Zinciriye Madrasah, Mardin, Turkey, (catalogue)
+ Infinity, A Selection from the Ebru Özdemir Collection, Museum Cermodern, Ankara, (catalogue)
wien-ankara/ aus einem teil der alten stadt besteht bloß, die neue stadt, Nev Gallery, Ankara, (catalogue)
2009 second encounter, artSümer, Istanbul, Turkey
2008 Lichtspuren: Fotografie aus der Sammlung, Lentos Museum of Modern Art Linz, Austria (catalogue)
je m’appelle apel – benim adim apel, New Tabaccostore/Apel Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey
gift,touring exhibition of Think Tank, Contemporary Applied Arts, London, United Kingdom; Gustavsberg Konsthall, Gustavsbergs Hamn, Sweden (catalogue)
2007 sechs3, Schafschetzy Gallery, Graz, Austria
Der Kuss der Schmetterlinge,touring exhibition in Lower Austria
at hand, Apel Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey
9th Art Festival, ODTÜ/Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey
Turkish Ceramics Art, Tophâne-i Amire Cultural Centre, Istanbul, Turkey
2006 Nomaden im Kunstsalon: Begegnungen mit der Moderne von Bayer bis Sol LeWitt,Lentos Museum of Modern Art Linz, Austria
CROSSOVER III, Koroška galerija likovnih umetnosti, Slovenj Gradec, Slovenia
forma corporis II, Palais Liechtenstein, Feldkirch, Austria
und +,Atrium ed Arte Gallery, Vienna, Austria
2005 Alternative Paradise, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan (catalogue)
Lebt und arbeitet auch in Wien, Projektraum Viktor Buchner, Vienna, Austria
forma corporis, Rathausgalerie, Waidhofen/Ybbs Museum, Austria
FOR TILES: Infinite Iteration as a Problem of Surface, Hagia Sophia Museum, Istanbul, Turkey (catalogue)
BILD und SCHRIFT, Atrium ed Arte Gallery, Vienna, Austria
TILES, Art Center Buskerud, Drammen, Norway
HERZENSCHREI: Das Kind im Blick der Künste, Österreich & Ungarn 1900–2005, touring exhibition in Lower Austria, WEINSTADTmuseum, Krems, Austria (catalogue)
2004 + positive, 2nd Biennial of kunst Meran, Kunsthaus Meran, Italy (catalogue)
Paula’s Home: Paula Modersohn-Becker und weitere 103 Künstlerinnen aus der Sammlung Lentos, Lentos Museum of Modern Art Linz, Austria
Frau.selbst: Von Lassnig bis Kandl, Altnöder Gallery, Salzburg, Austria
Gegen-Positionen: Künstlerinnen in Österreich 1960–2000, Museum of Modern Art, Foundation Wörlen, Passau, Germany
Zeitgenössische Kunst aus der Türkei und Österreich,Schlossmuseum Landeck, Austria
dereden tepeten, Apel Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff: Expressionismus – Bestände und Neuerwerbungen aus der Sammlung Lentos, Lentos Museum of Modern Art Linz, Austria
Keramikpreis 2004, Traklhaus Gallery, Salzburg; KERAMIK.WERKSTATT, Gmundner Ceramic Factory, Gmunden, Austria (catalogue)
2003 Mimosen, Rosen, Herbstzeitlosen: Künstlerinnen von 1945 bis zur Gegenwart, Kunsthalle Krems, Austria (catalogue)
21 artists each from America, Europe, Asia, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art in Korinba Daiwa Gallery, Kanazawa, Japan (catalogue)
bağ3 – şairin bahçesi/poet’s garden, Apel Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey
30 Jahre Jubiläum, Traklhaus Gallery, Salzburg, Austria
artposition 2003, Ottakringer Brauerei, Vienna, Austria (catalogue)
artposition at Kunstverein Baden, Kunstverein Baden, Austria
2002 Between the Waterfronts, Maas Gallery, Rotterdam, Netherlands (catalogue)
t≈art,AAI Gallery, Vienna, Austria
2001 five FRESH voices, Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York, USA
Nancy Margolis Gallery, New York, USA
Metamorphosen, Museum Grimmerhus, Middelfart, Denmark (catalogue)
2000 west-östlicher DIVAN, Museum auf Abruf Gallery, Vienna, Austria (catalogue)
Art-Kart, Apel Gallery, İstanbul, Turkey
Beyond Postcards from Gallery 1756, 1990–2000, Gallery 1756, Chicago, USA
BrennPunkt Keramik, European Porcelain Museum, Hohenberg/Selb, Germany; Municipal Museum of Art, Győr, Hungary
1999 WEISS, Kunstbunker Tumulka Gallery, Munich, Germany (folder)
Toprak ve Lif 2000, Apel Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey (folder)
21/2000,Atrium ed Arte Gallery, Vienna, Austria
BrennPunkt Keramik, Heiligenkreuzer Hof, Refectory, Vienna, Austria (catalogue)
Günce, Apel Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey
verein.t 99, Station 3, Vienna, Austria
hors d’œuvre de Turquie,Trigon Gallery, Liège, Belgium
1998 Keramikpreise 98, Traklhaus Gallery, Salzburg, Austria (catalogue)
WEISS, Kunstforum beim Rathaus, Hallein, Austria (folder)
Three European Artists, Gallery 1756, Chicago, USA
1997 Ceramic Biennial, Spiez, Switzerland
1996 Günce, Enersis, Ankara, Turkey
5. Biennale de la Céramique, Andenne, Belgium (catalogue)
1995 Designers Odyssey, Ankara, Turkey (catalogue)
Tragetto Gallery, Venice, Italy
Tonhaus, Bolzano, Italy
1993 Northwestern University, Norris Center, Evanston, USA
Zeitgeist, Hinteregger Gallery, St. Pölten, Austria
1992 Le bol, Leonelli Gallery, Lausanne, Switzerland
Fletcher Challenge Ceramics Awards 92, Auckland, New Zealand (catalogue)
1991 Keramik aus Wien, Hipp-Halle, Gmunden, Austria
Querdurch, Designers Saturday, Vienna, Austria

Art in Public Spaces

2005

2010

Libellulidae, Lunz am See, Public Art Lower Austria

NONPLACE dot, IKSV, Istanbul,Turkey

Awards and Scholarships

2019 Georg Prize for Art, Prize of the Sankt Georg School Istanbul, Vienna, Austria

2010 2nd Prize, ‘Mahya’ Competition / Lightinstallations of texts for mosques,
Istanbul 2010 / European Capital of Culture Agency, Istanbul, Turkey
2004 Federal Chancellery scholarship, Ceramic Prize 2004, Salzburg, Austria
2001 Working scholarship of the Federal Chancellery for the European Ceramic Work Centre (EKWC), ’s-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands
1999 Working scholarship of the Municipal Department of Cultural Affairs, Vienna, Austria
1998 Federal Chancellery scholarship, Ceramic Prize 1998, Salzburg, Austria
1996 1st Prize, 5ème Biennale de la Céramique, Andenne, Belgium
1991 Achievement Prize of the Austrian Institute of Design (ÖIF)
1990/91 Federal scholarship, Austria

Collections

2019 Collection of Palazzo Ducale Mantova, Italy
Collection of Wolfgang Hanck, Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf

2016 Museum Liaunig, Neuhaus/Suha, Austria
2015 Artothek, Federal Collection, Vienna, Austria
2013 The Huma Kabakci Collection, Istanbul, Turkey
2012 Istanbul Museum of Modern Art, Istanbul, Turkey
Arter, Vehbi Koç Foundation Contemporary Art Collection, Istanbul, Turkey
2011 Collection of the Museum Lower Austria, St. Pölten, Austria
2009 Arter, Vehbi Koç Foundation Contemporary Art Collection, Istanbul, Turkey
2007 Ebru Özdemir Collection, Ankara, Turkey
2006 Lentos Museum of Modern Art Linz, Austria
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan
2005 Artothek, Federal Collection, Vienna, Austria
2004 FWF Austrian Science Fund, Piece of the Year 2005, Vienna, Austria
2003 Collection of the Municipal Department of Cultural Affairs, Vienna, Austria
Lentos Museum of Modern Art Linz, Austria
Echoes/The Continued Effect of Turkish Traditions on Contemporary Art, Permanent Collection of the American Embassy in Istanbul, Turkey (catalogue)
2002 Collection of the University of Applied Arts Vienna, Austria
2000 Artothek, Federal Collection, Vienna, Austria
1999 Collection of the Municipal Department of Cultural Affairs, Vienna, Austria
1998 Art Collection of Bauholding Strabag, Spittal a. d. Drau, Austria
1995 Neue Galerie Wien, Federal Collection, Vienna, Austria
1993 Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria
Auckland Institute & Museum, Auckland, New Zealand
1992 Neue Galerie Wien, Federal Collection, Vienna, Austria

Projects

2019 Liebellulidae III, space installation, private residence, Vienna, Austria
2018 Çintemani, Georg Award of the Sankt Georg School Istanbul, Vienna, Austria
2017 Akmak, installation, private residence, Istanbul, Turkey
2016 Şimdi, wall installation, private residence, Istanbul, Turkey
2014 Hay, wall installation, private residence, Vienna, Austria
2013 Diamond Structure / Diamond Award 2013 OMV, Vienna, Austria
Ol, Gala Modern,
stanbul Museum of Modern Art Istanbul, Turkey (folder)
constructed SELÂM, site specific installation for ceiling, private residence, Istanbul, Turkey
2011 Selâm, wall installation, private residence, Vienna, Austria
2006 Im Akt des Sprechens freigesetzt, wall separation, private house, Vienna, Austria
2005 place., MAM Mario Mauroner Contemporary Art Vienna, Austria
2003 5 Objekte, Atrium ed Arte Gallery, Vienna, Austria
2002 Reflections on an apartment by the architect Hermann Loos, Argentinierstraße, Vienna, Austria (with O. Stimm and U. Neuber)
2001 Prints for Edition 01 of IG Bildende Kunst, Vienna, Austria
Catalogue presentation at home, MASC Foundation, Vienna, Austria
Work period in European Ceramic Work Centre (EKWC), ’s-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands
1999 Work period in artist studio of Eczacibasi Co., Istanbul, Turkey
1998 friends, porcelain door handles, office building, Spittal a. d. Drau, Austria
1997 zur Ruh, wall installation, private house, Vienna, Austria

Prototypes and Designs

1997 Pattern design for a dinner service, Arzberg-Hutschenreuther Co., Selb, Germany
1989 Pattern design for dinner plates, tea service, ÖSPAG Co., Lilienporzellan, Austria
Wondrous Bird, pattern design for a cup, Nalban Co., Laihia, Finland
1988 Piccolino – Zipfelmützendose, box design, Arzberg-Hutschenreuther Co., Selb, Germany

 

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