- Source: Erinc Seymen
Erinç Seymen (born 1980 Istanbul) is a Turkish artist.
Life
He graduated from Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Painting Department in 2006 and received his MA from Yıldız Technical University Art and Design Faculty, with a thesis about Bob Flanagan.
He participated in conferences and his articles has been published in various magazines on topics such as militarism, nationalism and gender issues.
Since 2002, he has participated in several solo and group exhibitions in Istanbul, Ankara, Vienna, Paris, London, Helsinki, Eindhoven and Lisbon.
The group exhibitions he participated in are: "Along the Gates of Urban", K&S Galerie, Berlin (2004); "An Atlas of Events", Foundation Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon (2007); "I Myself am War!", Open Space, Vienna (2008); "Istanbul, traversée", Palais des Beaux Arts de Lille, Lille (2009); "Moods: A Generation that Goes off the Rails", École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris (2010). Erinc Seymen lives and works in Istanbul.
Selected solo exhibitions
2009
Art Forum Berlin (Galerist Solo Booth), Berlin / Germany
Persuasion Room, Galerist, Istanbul / Turkey
2007
Man Jam, Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki / Finland
Gays Can Shoot Straight Too, Van Abbemuseum, 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
Selected group exhibitions
2010
Atesin Dustugu Yer, Depo, Istanbul / Turkey
Port İzmir 2, İnternational Contemporary Art Triennial, Izmir / Turkey
When Ideas Become Crime, Depo, Istanbul / Turkey
Istanbul Cool! What's Happening in Contemporary Turkish Art Now, Leila Taghinia-Milani Heler (LTMH) gallery, New York / USA
État D'ames, École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris / France
2009
Istanbul Traversee, Lille 3000, Lille / France
Materiak.picture, Operation Room, Istanbul / Turkey
2008
Moment of Agency – Filmprogram, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel / Switzerland
I Myself am War, Open Space, Vienna / Austria
Save as.. Triennale Bosiva, Milano / Italy
Reasonable, Hafriyat, Istanbul / Turkey
Photonic Moments, Fotogalerie des Rathaus, Graz / Austria
Photonic Moments, Gallery of the Cankarjev Dom Cultural Center, Ljubljana / Slovenia
2007
Be a Realist, Demand the İmpossible!, Karşı Sanat, Istanbul / Turkey
Istanbul Now, Lukas Feichtner Galerie, Istanbul / Turkey
Border-Disorder, Kraljevo / Serbia
An Atlas of Events, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Antonio 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, Maribor / Slovenia
Ardindan Degil Karşısına, Radikal Art, Bremen / Germany
Topkapi, Künstlerhaus Guterabfertigund, Bremen / Germany
Visions, Hotel Athens Imperial, Athens / Greece
Works on Paper, Galerist, Istanbul / Turkey
2005
Free Kick, Antrepo No.5, Istanbul / Turkey
2004
Along the Gates of Urban, K&S Galerie, Berlin / Germany
Along the Gates of Urban, Oda Projesi, Istanbul / Turkey
Visitor, Galerist, Istanbul / Turkey
2003
I'm too Sad to Kill You, Proje4L, Istanbul / Turkey
Good, Bad and Ugly, Atölye 111, Bilgi University, Istanbul / Turkey
2002
Under the Beach: the Pavement, Proje4L, Istanbul / Turkey
References
External links
http://www.artnet.com/artists/erinc-seymen/past-auction-results
http://www.artfacts.net/en/artist/erinc-seymen-80307/profile.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20100401113437/http://www.i-straddle.com/2009/05/erinc-seymen-galerist.html
http://www.sothebys.com/en/catalogues/ecatalogue.html/2011/contemporary-art-turkish-l11221#/r=/en/ecat.fhtml.L11221.html+r.m=/en/ecat.lot.L11221.html/44/
http://opymoscollection.com/artist_detail.asp?AID=32
