Born 1973 in Van, Turkey
Lives and works in Berlin

Education

1990 – 1995
Yıldız Technical University (YTÜ), Architecture Department, Istanbul, Turkey

1995 – 1998

Yıldız Technical University (YTÜ), History of Architecture and Restoration Master Program, Architecture Department, Istanbul, Turkey

Awards and Nominations

2023
Villa Romana Prize, Florence

Nominated for Visions du Reel, International Medium Length Film Competition with Aşit

Nominated for National Documentary Film Competition of Istanbul Film Festival with Turkish Delight


2022
Nominated for Böttcher Strasse Kunst Prise 2022, Bremen



2021
Documentarist Film Festival, Special Jury Award with Gurbet is a home now

Nominated for National Documentary Film Award Competition of İstanbul Film Festival with Gurbet is a home now


2016 

Nominated for Vera List Center Prize for Art and Politics at the New School in New York with Im Walking for Peace Initiative

Programmes and Residencies

2023

Villa Romana, Florence, Italy.



2018
Contemporary Geographies, Summer School, Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art, Kuldiga Latvia.

2017
Migration and Symbols, Lecture Series, Leuphana University, Lüneburg, Germany.


2016

Becoming Witness and Suspect in Times of War, Public Calling Conference, National Theatre Oslo, Norway.

Artist in Residence Programme, Henie Onstad Kulturcenter, Oslo, Norway.

HIAP, Artist in Residence Programme, Helsinki, Finland.

2015 

Plataforma Editable, Desplazamientos Curatoriales
Santiago, Valparaiso, Antofagasta, Tarabaca, Chile.



2013
CIMAM Annual Conference supported by SAHA, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil.

2011
Altonale Festival and Artist in Residence Programme, Hamburg, Germany.

2010
Willa Waldberta, Artist in Residence Programme, Munich, Germany.

Solo exhibitions (selected)

2023
The Avalanche, Video Room
Berlinische Galerie, Berlin.



2018
Mawtini, Tensta Museum Project
Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm.


Un Peso
Bilsart, İstanbul.

2017
A Gentle Breeze Passed Over Us

Kunst Haus Wien-Hundertwasser Museum, Vienna.

Under the Red Sky
Depo Istanbul.

2015

Awaiting the Onset of the Sense of Life
MARSistanbul, Istanbul.

Solo presentations & screenings

2023
Inventory 2021
Neu National Galerie, Berlin

Aşit – The Avalanche
Double Future
Schirn, Frankfurt


Turkish Delight

Film Screening & Discussion with Anne Bitterwolf
Berlinische Galerie, Berlin.

Aşit
Film Screening and Discussion

Art, Ancestors, Ghosts & The Death, Protocinema, New York


Aşit

Film Screening and Discussion 
Muthesius Kunsthochschule, Kiel

2022
Aşit

Film Screening and Discussion
HFBK, Hamburg



Gurbet is a home now
Vienna Art Academy

2021
Gurbet is a home now
Film Screening and Panel Discussion
Berlinische Galerie & ARCHplus, Berlin.

Gurbet is a home now

Film Screening and Discussion
Brücke Museum, Berlin.

Gurbet is a home now
Film Screening
İstanbul Modern, İstanbul

Inventur
Film Screening and Discussion with Želimir Žilnik
Maxim Gorki Theatre, Berlin.

2019
Resisting Forest
Performative Reading
SAVVY, Berlin

Purple Panic:43
Lecture Performance
District Berlin



A Gentle Breeze Passed Over Us
Workshop at the 
Jewish Museum, Munich

Newcomers
Workshop
 at FHXB Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg Museum, Berlin

Group exhibitions (selected)

2023
Between the Lines
Galerie Tanja Wagner, Berlin

Moved, or What My Bones Know
Galerie Nord, Kunstverein Tiergarten, Berlin

Vielheit [Multiplicity]: Stories from the postmigrant society
Kunst Meran, Italy

A House for Mending, Troubling, Repairing
Villa Romana, Florence



Unfair Game
Curated by Exile, Vienna


2022

documenta fifteen

Kassel, Germany



2021

Offener Prozess

Stadtmuseum, Jena & Maxim Gorki Theatre, Berlin

Angst Keine Angst, Fear No Fear
Times Art Center, Berlin

Get Real: Exhibition about the housing question and new forms
Luda Gallery, St. Petersburg

Die Balkone
Prenslauberg 
Berlin

Ak-sayanlar

X-ist Gallery, Istanbul


2020
Porose Stadt / Porous City

Kunstraum Bethanien Kreuzberg, Berlin


2019

3rd Art Encounters Biennial
Timişoara, Romania



7th Sinop Biennial
Sinop


Survival Kit
Latvian Contemporary Center for Art, Riga


Say Shibboleth

Jewish Museum, Munich


Ce sont les îles qui se déplacent
Passerelle Contemporary Art Center, Brest


Revolt She Said
District Berlin


Gitmek mi zor kalmak mı? 
Agah Uğur Collection Exhibition
Akaretler, İstanbul


Last Acquisitions
Agah Uğur Collection, CI, İstanbul


2018
12th Gwangju Biennial
Gwangju


6th Athens Biennial

Athens


Exclusively Inclusive

Gerdarsfan Kópavogor Museum, Iceland

Konst och affarer
Tensta Konsthal, Tensta Centrum, Stockholm

How the weather will be tomorrow?
Between Bridges, Berlin


Say Shibboleth
Jewish Museum of Hohenems


First Raunt, Selection from Banu-Hakan Carmikli Collection
Greek School Karakoy, Istanbul

2017
Bahar, the Istanbul off-site project for Sharjah Biennial13
Istanbul


Post Peace
Württembergischer Kunstverein (WKV), Stuttgart

Non Persons, Spaces, Situations

Bruthaus Gallery, Waregem


Artist At Risk
Pavilion Athens, Perpetuum Mobilisation, Athens



Camouflaged Pearls

Bruthaus Gallery, Waregem

2016

When Home Won’t Let You Stay
University of Applied Arts (Angawandte), Vienna

2015
Apricots From Damascus
SALT Galata, Istanbul


İstanbul: Passion, Joy
, Fury
MAXXI Museum, Rome


1. Frontiers Bienal
Tamaulipas, Mexico

2014
4. Çanakkale Biennial
Çanakkale


5. Sinop Biennial

Sinop