10.09 – 22.10.2022 :: Pilot Galeri, Istanbul
The exhibition takes its name from control theory where “degrees of freedom” refers to the variety of possible motions in a system. By widening this concept to any system including humans and their social spheres, various pieces in the exhibition explores different ways we can have or lack control, and reminds the viewers of their own potentials.
29.04 – 05.06.2022 :: Sanatorium, Istanbul
Curated by Yağız Özgen, “Metamorphoses from Causal Relations to Indexical Signs” looks into causal relations between events that are the building blocks of the world surrounding the human being.
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03.03 – 18.04.2021 :: Depo, Istanbul
“Tempo Incognito: On Flows, Rhythm, and Movement”, curated by Rana Öztürk, intends to examine the experience and conceptualization of temporality in contemporary societies, exploring how our sense of time can clash or be in tune with natural, ecological and universal cycles.
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03.09-20.10.2019 :: Anna Laudel, Istanbul
Curated by İpek Yeğinsü, “Intergalactic” departs from the question of what the future will be like if we manage to bring and sustain our civilization beyond the confines of our planet.
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15.09 – 21.10.2018 :: D21 Kunstraum Leipzig
The project Anger is a solution, if anger means kittens examines manifestations of anger, frustration and exhaustion in post-digital, late-capitalist societies. It was realized in the context of “Curator’s Lab” as part of the D21 annual program “Emotional States” focusing on the politics of emotions.
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21.09-09.12.2018 :: SPACE Gallery Pittsburgh
Curated by Murray Horne, “Machine Culture” introduces a group of artists fascinated by the mechanical. Operating with varying degrees of autonomy, control, function and dysfunction, these artists orchestrate materials, re-configuring them into “objects of fascination.”
Artists: Samuel St. Aubin, Zoro Feigl, Ujoo & Limhee Young, Kristoffer Myskja, Henrik Menné, Oz Malul, Keny Marshall, Kausik Mukhopadhyay, Ali Miharbi, Peter Flemming
“Wind Organ”, co-commissioned by Delfina Foundation and Horniman Museum with support from SAHA, is inspired by the museum’s musical instrument collection which I visited during my residency at Delfina Foundation in Winter 2017. The piece forms part of a series of works commissioned as part of Delfina Foundation’s thematic programme Collecting as Practice.
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16.04 – 03.06.2017 :: Pilot Galeri, Istanbul
“Pneuma” focuses on air, breath and wind. Air circulates, it travels, it spreads, it blocks, it communicates, it whispers. It transmits and guides. Air is not there only as the mass of gases that surrounds the Earth and allows life to exist but beyond this, it is there as a tool of communication or a converter.
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27.12.2016 – 10.01.2017 :: bomontiada, Istanbul
Following the Open Call of 2015, Istanbul Independent Art Association (BStart) now presents “Play is Freedom” as his first exhibition combining Ali Miharbi, Berat Işık, Buse Aktaş and Merve Ertufan’s commissioned projects. The exhibition re-unites these artists using different approaches, formats and medium by the concept of “play” as art and also explores its nature and its relation within art.
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30.09 – 5.11.2016 :: PILOT Gallery
Featuring works by 12 artists, “Un Coup de Dés Jamais N’Abolira Le Hasard” is an attempt to explore new possibilities as well as the complexity inherent in the evolving relationship between art and language. The works on view challenge the idea of a language, full of rules and restrictions, which compels immediate readings; instead, they embrace pliable and even subjective versions.
Artists: Özgür Demirci, Elmas Deniz, Didem Erk, Lee Garcia, Leyla, Hacer Kıroğlu, Alican Leblebici, Ali Miharbi, Ceylan Öztürk, İrem Tok, Şener Özmen, Seda Yıldız