Elmas Deniz
ELMAS DENİZ
b. 1981, Bergama, Turkey
Lives and works in Istanbul, Turkey
EDUCATION
2003 - 1998 BA, Painting, Dokuz Eylül University, Izmir, Turkey
1998 - 1995 Visual Arts, Izmir Anatolian Fine Arts High School, Izmir, Turkey
SOLO EXHIBITIONS AND PROJECTS
2019 Integration with Nature, curator: Ali Akay, Şekerbank Açıkekran New Media
Art Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey
2018 A Year without a Summer, PİLOT, Istanbul, Turkey
2014 Seeing the Black Panther, PİLOT, Istanbul, Turkey
Universal Minimum Wage Commission screening, curator: Oscar
Ramos- Stine Östberg, SVILOVA, Gothenburg, Sweden
2012 Elmas, 35th years anniversary exhibitions, curator: Nazlı Gürlek,
Maçka Art Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey
Money Issues, with Özgür Demirci, curator: Nicoletta Daldenise, PASAJist,
Istanbul, Turkey
2007 On Volatility / Despre Votalititate, with Pilvi Takala, curator: Oana
Tanese, Galeria Nouva, Bucharest, Romania
2006 Nothing Can Happen to Us (Cernobyl), initiated by Sylvia Kouvali, Kristina
Kramer and Öykü Özsoy, Altı Aylık Project Space, Istanbul, Turkey
2004 Solo Performance, All About Lies, Apartment Project, Istanbul, Turkey
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019 Words Are Very Unnecessary, curator: Selen Ansen, Arter, Istanbul, Turkey
16th Istanbul Biennial: The Seventh Continent, curator: Nicolas Bourriaud,
Istanbul, Turkey
Nature in Art, curators: Delfina Jałowik, Maria Anna Potocka, Martyna
Sobczyk, co-ordinator: Agnieszka Sachar, MOCAK, Krakow, Poland
2018 K.E.K Sever Misiniz?, Women's Library Fundraising Exhibition, Women’s Library,
Istanbul, Turkey
2017 Re/Evolution, curator: Menika Van der Poorten, Colombo Old Terminus Station,
Colombo, Sri Lanka
2016 VIDEO FOREVER, curators: Paul Ardenne, Nicolas Etchenagucia and
Barbara Polla, Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, Paris, France
In the Blink of a Bird, Collaborative production of Sis Collective, DEPO, Istanbul,
Turkey
TILL IT'S GONE, curators: Çelenk Bafra and Paolo Colombo, Istanbul
Museum of Modern Art, Istanbul, Turkey
IdentityLab Sessions, curators: Susanne Ewerlöf and Naz Cuguoğlu, Consulate
General of Sweden; DEPO; Galata Greek Primary School, Istanbul, Turkey
2015 14th Istanbul Biennial, SALTWATER: A Theory of Thought Forms, drafted by
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Istanbul, Turkey
Every Inclusion is an Exclusion of Other Possibilities, curator: November
Paynter, SALT Beyoğlu, Istanbul, Turkey
2014 Stay with me, initiated by Selda Asal, Apartment Project, Berlin, Germany
WE ARE HERE BeCAUSE YOU WERE/ARE (t)HERE, curator: Lennard
Dost, studio das weisse haus, Vienna, Austria
The Moving Museum Istanbul, initiated by Aya Mousavi and Simon Sakhai,
Şişhane CarPark, Istanbul, Turkey
2013 UNREST OF FORM/Imagining the Political Subject, curator: Georg
Schöllhammer, SECESSION; Academy of Fine Arts; Museumsquartier Wien,
Vienna, Austria
Suspended Song, Co-Pilot, Istanbul, Turkey
2012 onyedikasimikibinoniki (art prize), curator: Öykü Özsoy, Hasköy String Factory,
Istanbul, Turkey
Me,myself and I, initiated by the artist collective Gerçek Kötüler, Cermodern,
Ankara, Turkey
2011 Becoming Istanbul, curator: Meriç Öner, SALT Beyoğlu, Istanbul, Turkey
Friday in F.R.A.C, Interventions, curator: Nicoletta Daldenise, Frac Piedmonte
Collection, Biella, Italy
2010 Strade/ Routes, Centro Espositivo SMS, Viale delle Piagge, Cinema Arsenale, Pisa,
Italy
Emploi Seasonniers, curator: Veronique Collard Bovy,La Friche Belle de Mai,
Marseilles, France
Floating Volumes, Frise Kunstlerhaus, Hamburg, Germany
2009 There is No Audience, curator: Adnan Yıldız, Montehermoso,Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
Contingent Identities, initiated by Isidora Ficovic, DEPO, Istanbul, Turkey
Creative Destruction, Outlet Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey
2008 e-flux video rental, The Building, Berlin, Germany
On produce-ability, initiated by Kristina Kramer, 5533, Istanbul, Turkey
2007 Bound By, initiated by Claudia Weber, Basement Gallery, Vienna, Austuria
Urban Pedestals, curator: Lotte Juul Petersen, Norregade (Public space), Copenhagen,
Denmark
Punctured Tyree, K2 Contemporary Art Center, Izmir, Turkey
2006 5th Gyumri Biennial, The Seas, Dreams and Illusions, curator: Arpine
Tokmakjan (part of Buy a Dream store), Yerevan, Armenia
Vassl International Artist Workshop Exhibition, Karachi, Pakistan
Check in Europe, curator: Veronika Wiman, European Patent Office, Munich,
Germany
Gemini: Muse Project, curator: Fulya Erdemci, Amstelkring Museum, Amsterdam,
The Netherlands
2005 Normalization 3 / That from a Long Way Off Look Likes Flies..., curators:
November Paynter and Vasıf Kortun, Platform Garanti Contemporary Art
Center (2001-2007), Istanbul, Turkey
2004 The Visitor, curators: Emre Baykal and Rob Perree, Galerist, Istanbul, Turkey
The Tedium and The Rainbow, curator: Levent Çalıkoğlu, Aksanat, Istanbul, Turkey
2003 B-Fact: Back Sea/ Baltic Sea/ Barents Sea, initiated by Hüseyin Alptekin, Bilgi
Atelier 111, Istanbul, Turkey
2002 Under the Beach: The Pavement, curators: Halil Altındere and Vasıf Kortun, Proje 4L
(2001-2004), Istanbul, Turkey
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2010 Overtime Work, Ahmed Adnan Saygun Art Center, Izmir, Turkey
2008 The Unmarked Categories, K2 Contemporary Art Center, Izmir, Turkey
RESIDENCIES AND GRANTS
2018 SAHA Production Grant, Re/Evolution Exhibition, Colombo, Sri Lanka
2015 ALANICA Symposium, Vladikavkaz, Nort-Osetia, Russia
IASPIS Artist Grant and Residency, Stockholm, Sweden
2011 Pistoletto Foundation Cittadellarte Residency and UNIDEE Artist Grant, Biella, Italy
2009 Artist Residency Program and Production Grant, Sextant de Plus, La
Friche Belle de Mai, Marseilles, France
2008 Artist Grant, Danish International Artists Residency Program-DIVA, Copenhagen,
Denmark
Studio Grant, Garanti Platform Contemporary Art Center, Istanbul, Turkey
2007 CPH Air Residency Program, Copenhagen, Denmark
Berlin Goethe Institute Culture Artist Exchange Program, Berlin, Germany
2006 Vasl Artists' Collective, International Workshop and Residency Program, Gadani,
Karachi, Pakistan
IASPIS, Expert Visitor Program, Malmö-Stockholm, Sweden
FRAME, Expert Visitor Program, Helsinki, Finland
2005 Aiwa, Artist International Workshop and Residency, Beirut, Lebanon
WORKSHOPS
2007 Anonymous, Production Workshop, Kültür University, Istanbul, Turkey
P2P Izmir Workshop, K2 Contemporary Art Center, organized by Veronica Wiman,
Izmir, Turkey
Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center / PIST / BAS, Alternative Art
spaces, organized by Pelin Tan and Anton Vidokle, Istanbul, Turkey
2006 5th Gyumri Biennial Workshop, organized by Arpine Tokmakjan, Yerevan, Armenia
2004 Artist initiatives from Brussels, Istanbul, Izmir, Diyarbakır, Platform
Garanti Contemporary Art Center, Istanbul, Turkey
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES, COLLECTIVES AND INITIATIVES
2017 Participant Artist, Sis Artist Collective
2013 Participant Artist, Group p (precarious)
2010 Founder and editor, Merkezkaç Publications, Istanbul, Turkey
Organizer of talks program, in collaboration with Açık Masa, DEPO, Istanbul,
Turkey
2007-2004 Founder Member and Project Director, K2 Contemporary Art Center, Izmir,
Turkey
2002 Founder Member, KUTU (Box) Portable Art Gallery, Izmir, Turkey
EVENTS, PRESENTATIONS, TALKS AND PROJECTS
2019 Yapılmamış Sergilere Önsözler, Varlık, Yokluk ve Socotra, with Murat Alat,
ArtUnlimited
2018 Conversation with Serhan Ada, Profiles and Processes, Akbank Art Talks, Akbank
Sanat, Istanbul, Turkey
Artist Talk, Social Impact Through Art, initiated by Öykü Özgencil, bomontiada,
Istanbul, Turkey
2017 Lecture Performance, with Yasemin Özcan, part of You&I Exhibition, 5533,
Istanbul, Turkey
2016 Lecture and Conversation, Making Sense: Aesthetic Response and
Responsibility, with Dr. Roger Cook and Alper Aydın, Istanbul Museum of Modern
Art, Istanbul, Turkey
Artist Talk, Dünyada Mekan, Istanbul, Turkey
2015 Conversation, with collector Saruhan Doğan, Every Inclusion is an
Exclusion of Other Possibilities, SALT Beyoğlu, Istanbul, Turkey
Artist Presentation, meeting with art professionals from University of Bern,
Switzerland, Istanbul, Turkey
Talk, on Art, Politics, and Publics, Northwestern University MA
Anthropology Department, Istanbul, Turkey
Debater at EMWAP Theatre and Dance festival, invited as visual artist,
D22, Talimhane Tiyatrosu, Moda Sahnesi, Istanbul, Turkey
Monday lectures- Part of MA Lecture Series of the Faculty of Kunst,
Musikk & Design at the University of Bergen, Istanbul, Turkey
2014 Seeing the Black Panther Artist Talk with Merve Ünsal, PİLOT, Istanbul, Turkey
Lecture, Konstfack, Stockholm, Sweden
2012 Elmas Exhibition Talk with Özge Ersoy, Maçka Art Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey
Moderator and Speaker, Alp Klanten's Artist Talk, Maçka Art Gallery, Istanbul,
Turkey
2010 Artist Talk, Nonconformist Artist, DEPO, Istanbul, Turkey
2009 Artist Talk, Relative Positions and Conclusions, curator: Önder Özengi, Suriye
Pasajı, Istanbul, Turkey
2008 Artist Talk, On Alternative Practices, Orhangazi University, Eskişehir, Turkey
2007 Open Table: Esra Okyay, organized by Mürüvvet Türkyılmaz, Platform Garanti
Contemporary Art Center, Istanbul, Turkey
Artists Talk, Overgaden Art Institute/ Cousina Autonomia, with Adnan Yıldız,
Copenhagen, Denmark
2006 Artist Talk, with Ahmet Ögüt, Kültür University, Istanbul, Turkey
Platform Garanti CAC/ PIST/BAS, Alternative Art Spaces, organized by
Pelin Tan and Anton Vidokle, Istanbul, Turkey
2005 Art Actually, concept origin by Fatoş Üstek, Michel Thrusz, contribution to fanzine,
Istanbul, Turkey; New York, USA
2004 Platform Garanti CAC, Artist Initiatives from Brussels, Izmir, Diyarbakır, Istanbul,
Turkey
EDITORIAL
2012-2016 Mental Space supplementary series of the journal Sanat Dünyamız
2011 Founder-editor of Merkezkaç Publications
PUBLISHED TEXTS
2017 Open Systems READER: Tomorrow is not Promised! Language: English,
published by Lambert Academic Publishing, ISBN: 978-3-330-05296-3
2013 Art-Agenda, Review of 13th Istanbul Biennial “Mom, Am I Barbarian?”
Translation, The History of Anarchisms, With Barış Yıldırım, A:S.Evren
İletişim Publications, Istanbul, ISBN:9789750512766
2013 Open Spaces 2 Online Publication- http://www.openspace-zkp.org/
2011 Muhtelif magazine 6,with Burak Delier and Önder Özengi, Istanbul, Turkey
Interviewer, Who am I anyway, for the publication regarding Köken
Ergun's solo show, editor: Oliver Kielmayer, Kunstlerhause Winterthur
2009 Dersimiz Güncel Sanat, Outlet Güncel Sanat Dizisi-1, editor: Azra
Tüzünoğlu, ISBN: 978-605-60677-0-9 Outlet Güncel Sanat Dizisi-1, May
2009, 144 pg
2008 ‘An address’, Trendsetter Magazine September issue
2007 User's Manual- Contemporary art in Turkey between 1986-2007,H.
Altındere, S. Evren Eds., ISBN: 978-3-86588-423-7
Contemporary Art Meetings II, Yapı Kredi Books, Istanbul, ISBN:
9789750811784
2005 Exhibition Review, ‘Hidden Face’, with Tufan Baltalar, Rh Art Magazine, December
issue
COLLECTIONS
Vehbi Koç Foundation Contemporary Art Collection, Istanbul, Turkey