ERİNÇ SEYMEN
b. 1980, Istanbul, Turkey    

EDUCATION

2006 - 2010    MA, Yıldız Technical University Art and Design, Istanbul, Turkey
1999 - 2006    BA, Painting Department, Academy of Fine Arts, Mimar Sinan
                        University of Fine Arts, Istanbul, Turkey
1999                Istanbul Lisesi (High School), Istanbul, Turkey

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2017    Homo Fragilis, Zilberman Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey
            Go Back To The Very Beginning, Galata Greek Primary School, Istanbul,
            Turkey
2012    The Seed and The Bullet, Rampa, Istanbul, Turkey
2009    Art Forum Berlin, with Galerist, Berlin, Germany
            Persuasion Room, Galerist, Istanbul, Turkey
2007    Man Jam, curator: Aura Seikkula, Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki,
            Finland
2007    Gays can shoot straight too, Van Abbemuseum, curator: Esra Sarıgedik,
            Eindhoven, NL
            Hunting Season, Galerist, Istanbul, Turkey
2006    Untitled, Masa Project, Istanbul, Turkey
2005    Violation Exercises, Galerist, Istanbul, Turkey
2003    Uncanny Distance, Galerist, Istanbul, Turkey

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2018    A Day at Hotel,  Zilberman Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey
            Appropriation? Case?, Yakı Kredi Kültür Sanat, İstanbul, Turkey
            Printed’18, Mixer, Istanbul, Turkey
            Colony, Schwules Museum, Berlin, Germany
2017    Colony, Abud Efendi Mansion, Istanbul, Turkey
            ğ – the soft g, curators: Emre Busse and Aykan Safoğlu, Schwules Museum,
            Berlin,             Germany
2016    Replaced, Rampa, Istanbul, Turkey
            The Mystery Of Figure, Plato Sanat, Istanbul, Turkey
            OHNE, Mekan68, Vienna, Austria
2015    Future Queer, Kaos GL, Beyoğlu Ark Kültür, Istanbul, Turkey
            Every Inclusion is an Exclusion of Other Possibilities II, SALT Beyoğlu,
            Istanbul
            VIVO with Ahmet Doğu İpek, Kerem Ozan Bayraktar, Kasa Gallery, Sabancı
            University, Istanbul
2014    Plurivocality, Visual Arts and Music in Turkey, The Istanbul Museum of
            Modern Art, Istanbul, Turkey
2013    Berliner Herbstsalon, Maxim Gorki Theater, Berlin, Germany
            Yersiz Kader Birliği, curator: Emre Zeytinoğlu, Mardin, Turkey
            Panorama. Landscapes 2013-1969, Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes,
            Mexico City, Mexico
            Between The Lines, All Visual Arts, London, UK
2011    Confessions Of Dangerous Minds Contemporary Art From Turkey, Saatchi
            Gallery, London, UK
2010    Ateşin Düştüğü Yer, Depo, Istanbul, Turkey
            Port İzmir 2, International Contemporary Art Triennial, curator Necm
            Sönmez, Izmir, Turkey
            When Ideas Become Crime, curator Halil Altındere, Depo, Istanbul, Turkey
            Istanbul Cool! What’s Happening in Contemporary Turkish Art Now, Leila
            Taghinia - Milani Heler (LTMH) Gallery, New York, USA
            Etat D’ames, Beaux-Arts de Paris l’école Nationale Supérieure, curator:
            Yekhan Pınarlıgil, Paris, France
2009    Istanbul Traversee, curator: Caroline Naphegyi, Lille 3000, Lille, France
            Material.picture, curator Ekrem Yalçındağ, Operation Room, Istanbul, Turkey
2008    Moment of Agency – Filmprogram, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland
            I Myself am War, Open Space, curator Gülşen Bal, Vienna, Austria
            Save as.., Triennale Bovisa, Milano, Italy
            Reasonable, organized by Lambda Istanbul, Hafriyat, Istanbul, Turkey
            Photonic Moments, curator: Gülsen Bal, Fotogalerie des Rathaus,
            Graz,Austria
            Photonic Moments, curator: Gülsen Bal, Gallery of the Cankarjev Dom
            Cultural Center, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2007    Be a Realist, Demand the Impossible!, Karşı Sanat, curator: Halil Altındere,
            Istanbul, Turkey
            Istanbul Now, Lukas Feichtner Galerie, curator: Tayfun Belgin,
            Istanbul,Turkey
            Border- Disorder, curated by Isidora Ficovic, Kraljevo, Serbia
            An Atlas of Events, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, curator: Esra Sarıgedik,
            António Pinto Ribeiro, Lisbon, Portugal
            Alternative Election Posters, Hafriyat, Istanbul, Turkey
            Working Space, Pera Museum, Istanbul, Turkey
            Flat Tire K2, Izmir / Turkey
2006    Home and Away, UGM Gallery, curator: Simona Vidmar, Maribor, Slovenia
            Ardından Değil Karşısına, Radikal Art, curator: Övül Durmuşoğlu, Istanbul,
            Turkey
            Topkapı, Künstlerhaus Guterabfertigund, curator Sirma Kekeç, Bremen,
            Germany
            Visions, Hotel Athens Imperial, curated by Sylvia Kouvalis, Athens, Greece
            Works on Paper, Galerist, Istanbul, Turkey
2005    Free Kick, Antrepo No: 5, curator: Halil Altındere, Istanbul, Turkey
2004    Along the Gates of Urban, curator: Erden Kosova, K&S Galerie, Berlin,
            Germany
            Along the Gates of Urban, curator: Erden Kosova, Oda Projesi, Istanbul,
            Turkey
            Visitor, curator: Rob Perree, Emre Baykal, Galerist, Istanbul, Turkey
2003    I’m Too Sad to Kill You, curator: Halil Altındere, Proje4L, Istanbul, Turkey
            Good, Bad and Ugly, Atölye 111, Bilgi University, Istanbul, Turkey
2002    Under the Beach: the Pavement, curator:  Vasıf Kortun, Proje4L, Istanbul,
            Turkey

PERFORMANCES

2009    Portrait of a Pasha, Istanbul Traversee, Lille 3000, Lille, France
2006    Son: DA and Erinç Seymen, performance, UGM Gallery, Maribor, Slovenia
            Son: DA and Erinç Seymen, performance, Platform Contemporary Art Center,
            Istanbul, Turkey
2003    Domestic lo fi Party, with Melis Sohtaoğlu, Dulcinea, Istanbul, Turkey
2002    Electronic life forms, with Melis Sohtaoglu, Dulcinea, Istanbul, Turkey
2000    Atomix live Party 3, Kemancı Culture Center, Istanbul, Turkey
1999    Atomix live Party 2, Kemancı Culture Center, Istanbul, Turkey