“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
08.09 – 22.10.2016 :: REM Art Space + Gaia Gallery
“A Sharp Cliff After A Soft Landing”, curated by Mehmet Kahraman, questions how certain moments influence the act of art-making and brings momentary situations in our collective and individual memories together in the same space.
Participating Artists: Ali Miharbi, Ani Setyan, Burçak Konukman, Çınar Eslek, Emre Zeytinoğlu, Elif Süsler, Ferhat Özgür, Erdem Ergaz, Gözde İlkin, Gül Ilgaz, Serda Camlı, Vahit Tuna, Yasemin Özcan, Yıldız Çintay
REM Art Space http://www.remartspace.org
Gaia Gallery http://www.gaiagallery.com
25.08 – 1.09 2016 :: Former General Post Office, Colombo 1 , Sri Lanka
Cinnamon Colomboscope, a contemporary and multidisciplinary arts festival organised by EUNIC Sri Lanka comprising the Goethe-Institut, British Council and Alliance Française de Kotte, took place at the former General Post Office (an iconic Colonial building erected in 1895 and unused for the last 20 years) in Sri Lanka’s capital, Colombo. This year’s edition, titled “Testing Grounds: Art and Digital Cultures in South Asia and Europe”, has been curated by Susanne Jaschko.
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26.06 – 28.08.2014 :: Schauraum Angewandte, quartier21, Vienna
My recent installation “Stroke” is specifically created for Schauraum Angewandte during my residency at quartier21/Museumsquartier, Vienna. The piece is a continuation of recent works where machines carry out repetitive actions such as whipping or tickling the walls of the exhibition space.
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Curated by Georg Weckwerth, 80 works by over 50 international artists provide an insight into the wide range of contemporary approaches to this apparently mundane material. Works by media art pioneers, specially commissioned new works and works by acclaimed and emerging talents in an expansive inter- and transdisciplinary show.
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23.01 – 29.03.2014 :: Nesrin Esirtgen Collection Art Space
The group exhibition Trocadero – curated by Nazlı Gürlek – questions notions of repetition as creative process, interpretation as content, performance as document, style as concept, intellectual property as common denominator, and viewer as object of interest.
Artists: Özlem Altın, Tuncay Çavdar, Aslı Çavusoglu, İris Ergül, Leyla Gediz, Deniz Gül, Serhat Kiraz, Ali Miharbi, İz Öztat, Sun Ra, Lili Reynaud-Dewar, Sarkis, Lawrence Weiner
