SÜMER SAYIN
Sümer Sayın is an interdisciplinary artist, working mostly with sculpture and installation. She makes interventions into found objects, using geometric elements, reflections, repetitions and loops, altering their composition and function. By re-constructing some of the elements they are composed of, she assigns them new contexts and layers of meanings. Her work incorporates the investigation of how our knowledge and perception is constructed and often have conceptual layers that relate with philosophical, scientific or social themes such as reality and illusion, the perception of time and space, subjectivity, freedom, borders and power.
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1985, Istanbul
Education
2008-2010 Oslo National Academy of the Arts (KHIO), Master of Fine Arts
2005-2006 Ecole Nationale des Beaux Arts de Lyon, Erasmus
2003-2007 Marmara University, Faculty of Fine Arts, Painting Department, Istanbul
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2023 While The Earth is Cooling Down / Dünya Soğurken, PASAJ @ Barin Han, Istanbul, Turkey
2018 An Inventory of Reflections, Reiter Berlin Prospect Gallery, Germany
2017 Oyunbozan / Deal-Breaker, DEPO, Istanbul, Turkey
2017 Passages, Ex14 Raum für zeitgenössische Kunst, Dresden, Germany
2016 Duo Show: Distance from Horizon, in collaboration with Miriam Hamann, Apartment Project, Berlin
2013 ONE, Sabrina Amrani Art Gallery, Madrid
2012 For A Moment, Art ON, Istanbul
2010 Reverse Angle, Akershus Kunstsenter, Oslo
2010 2,5 D, Soapbox Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024 Upcoming, The Tower, Projektraum im Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin
2024 Critical Shifts, Barin Han, Istanbul
2024 #2270ff, BWH Temporaum, RAW-Gelände, Berlin
2023 Is There Another Chance? / Bir Şans Daha Var mı?, Milli Reasürans Galerisi, Istanbul
2023 Change: transition, innovation or revolution?, Green Hill Gallery, Berlin
2023 Beyond Home, Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin
2023 Bir Işık Hüzmesi Üzerine, Taksim Sanat, Istanbul
2022 Sinopale 8
2020 Reset. Instructions to begin in a new present, TACA, la Palma, Mallorca
2020 20|20 -100 Jahre Großberlin, Schoeler Gallery, Berlin
2019 Condition Room, Apartment Project Berlin
2017 Neighboring Galaxies, GaleriBu, Istanbul
2017 Rotary Club Art Prize Exhibition, Elgiz Museum of Contemporary Art, Istanbul
2017 YARIN, Gaia Gallery, Istanbul
2017 House of Wisdom, Dzialdov, Berlin
2017 The Fragility of Now, 42 Maslak Art!Space, Istanbul
2017 The Beauty of Concept, Plato Sanat, Istanbul
2016 International Artist Space Agency, Dzialdov, Berlin
2016 O’Art Prize Exhibition, O’Art, Istanbul
2016 Mahal, Versus Art Project, Istanbul
2015 Nonlinear Future, Mixer Gallery, Istanbul
2015 Rendez-Vous, Jeune Création Internationale / 13e Biennale de Lyon, France
2015 Stay With Me, Lloydhof, Bremen, Germany
2015 Stay With Me, DEPO, Istanbul
2015 Mamut Art Project'15, Istanbul
2014 Stay With Me, Apartment Project Berlin
2014 Nights of Museums and Galleries, Plovdiv
2014 Technical Extasy, Kuad Gallery, Istanbul
2014 Focus 1: Serbest Cagrisim, Daire Galeri, Istanbul
2014 Ruptures and Convergences, Kuad Gallery, Istanbul and OKiS, Wroclaw, Poland
2014 31 Kilo, Dortmund-Istanbul exchange project, The Space Istanbul and Künstlerhaus Dortmund
2013 Bufferzone: Checkpoint, Depo, Istanbul
2013 Sketching the Bufferzone, Polistar, Istanbul
2013 …with all the changes that loomed far behind the horizon, Mars Istanbul
2013 Penelopolis: Women’s Mapping of Mediterranean Town / Podgorica, Ribnica River, Montenegro
2012 Sinopale 4, Turkey
2012 Encounters: Turkish Contemporary Art in Korea, Seoul
2012 Coca-Cola Red Gallery, Istanbul
2011 Crossroads, Art ON, Istanbul
2011 The Knowledge Series 1 / Production, Plato Sanat, Istanbul
2011 Kat/Fold, Proje 4L, Elgiz Museum of Contemporary Art, Istanbul
2010 Gittikce, Simotas Building, Istanbul
2010 The Bibliotheca Alexandrina 4th International Biennale for the Artists Book, Egypt
2009 Sympathy for the Devil, Contemporary Art Museum, Oslo
2009 Herre I Eget Hus, Galleri BOA, Oslo
2009 Skopje Biennale 0909
2008 Athens Video Art Festival, Greece
2007 Borders and Orbits Contest Exhibition, Siemens Art Gallery, Istanbul
2007 Nothing Is Alright, Apartment Project, Istanbul
2006 Everything Is Gonna Be Alright, Apartment Project, Istanbul
Awards, Prizes and Artist Residencies
2024 Kunstfonds Stipendium, Stiftung Kunstfonds
2023 Recherchestipendium, Berliner Kulturförderung
2022 NEUSTART KULTUR-Stipendium, Stiftung Kunstfonds
2022 ISCP New York Artist-in-Residency Program, supported by SAHA Association
2020 NEUSTART KULTUR-Stipendium für bildende Künstler*innen mit Kindern unter 7 Jahren, Stiftung Kunstfonds Bonn
2017 Istanbul Rotary Club Art Prize
2016 O’Art Prize
2016 January, Dos Mares Residency, Marseilles, France
2015 IKSV grant, Artist in Residency at Cité International des Arts, Paris
2014 Turkish Cultural Foundation Stipend, for my project in Nights of Museums and Galleries Plovdiv
2013 Bufferzone workshop in Istanbul and Nicosia, by Apartment Project, funded by Anna Lindh Foundation
2013 Penelopolis project workshop in Podgorica, Montenegro, funded by Anna Lindh Foundation
2010 Bolu International Artist in Residence Program by Among Other Things, Turkey
2009 Res Artis Award in Skopje Biennial 2009, Artist in Residence program in New York by freeDimensional
2009 Artist in Residency in Wasan Island, Canada, by freeDimensional
2008 KUNO grant, workshop at Valand School of Art, Gothenburg