"... Her writing-drawings, not only refer to contemporary art's quest for new hybrid forms of languages, but also signify the numerous stages of artist's fragile creations process. Turkyilmaz's writing-drawings have followed the architectural lines like an ivy connecting other artist' works to one another in the 2001 exhibition"Regrets, Reveries, Changing Skies",

while at the 8th Havana Biennial (2003) ..."

 

(Fulya Erdemci, 'Modern and Beyond', by 'Unregistered

Geographies - Muruvvet Turkyilmaz', 2010)

 


 

“... main area's of concern are geography and cartography as

a means of dealing with issues of borders, isolation, and the compressed and fast social life, which exist in a specific time

and space. In my work I use installations, videos and drawings

to address the fluidity of cultures and people in contradiction

with the rigid and static charting of maps,

with their clearly demarcarted borders.

The work is the result of tracings depending on collective

and personal memories. My work is the journey on the physical

as well as the political map ...”

 

( 2005)

 

 

 

BREVI CENNI BIOGRAFICI SU MURUVVET TURKYILMAZ:

E' nata nel '68 a Izmir, TK, vive e lavora a Istanbul. Docente di Discipline Artistiche presso l'Università di Belle Arti di Istanbul. Ha partecipato a Biennali di Istanbul, Havana e Sidney. Ha esposto in numerose gallerie, spazi istituzionali e musei in Turchia (Istanbul, Ankara, Izmir...), Francia, Olanda, U.K. Collabora saltuariamente con il visual artist Selim Birsel. Espone dal 1997.

 

 

SELEZIONE ESPOSIZIONI PERSONALI/SELECTED SOLO SHOW:

2010, Unregistered Geographies, Apel Galery, Istanbul, TK

2009, Open Studios, Maison des Arts - Centre Pompidou, Carjac, France

2007, Overjoyed Ones, Artvarium, Proje4L, Istanbul .

2005, The Geography of Fear, Change + Partner Contemporary Art, Roma .

2004, The Spirit of Geography, Dudelange Gallery, Luxembourg .

2003, Open Studio, Residency in Gasworks Gallery, London, UK .

2003, V.S, (“etc”) Macka Sanat Gallery, Istanbul .



SELEZIONE GROUP SHOW DAL 2004/SELECTED GROUP SHOW BY 2004:

2010, Indefinite Destinations, Depo ,Istanbul, TK  .  2009, Artbook Project, Milano, I  .  Interpose Line/Linea Interposta, change + partner habitat concept, Bracciano . Interpose Line/Linea Interposta, Auditorium Comunale di Bracciano . Meeting Plane Works 1, change + partner habitat concept, Bracciano . Seriously Ironic – Positions in Turkish Contemporary Art, Centre PasquArt, Kunstverein, Biel. CH . Archivio Change + Partner 2009, change + partner habitat concept, Bracciano . 2008, Carrè d'Art Contemporary Art, Museum in France . Save as, La Triennale di Milano, I . Work the Room Project, Gon Comic Bookstore, Istanbul . Works, objects and attachments, Change + Partner, Roma . Archivio Change + Partner 2008, Change + Partner, Roma . 2007, Modern and Beyond, Santralistanbul, Istanbul . Port 1, Izmir . Archivio Change + Partner 2007, Change + Partner, Roma . Induzione critica 1, Change + Partner , Roma . Radikalari, Bilboard exhibition, in Istanbul, Radikar Newspaper, Istanbul . 2006, Library, Open Book of the Balkans, Cultural Centre Cacak, Serbia . Progressive Codex/Codice Progressivo, Change + Partner, Roma . Zones of contact 2006 Biennale of Sidney, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, sydney . Copykiller, Akbank Culture and Art Center, Istanbul . 2005, Waiting room, Apartment Project, Istanbul . Bu Sizin Icin, Imsg, Istanbul . Turkiye den Guncel Sanat, Kazakistan . Alterità x Adattamento; Catalogue Change + Partner 2001 - 2005, Istituto Polacco di Roma . 1 st International Artistic Flags Festival, The Golden Eye Centre, Serbia and Montenegro . 2004, Ustu Gegil Kendisi, K2 Art Centre, Izmir . Turkey Plastic Dialogues, Brussels' City Hall, Belgium . H . C .P . - House Privacy Collection, Change + Partner, Roma . D .O .C. - Deposito Ontologico Contemporaneo, Change + Partner, Roma . From somewhere to nowhere without return: knowledge, F. Coleman Project Space, London . From somewhere to nowhere without return/dei luoghi assenti e presenti con biglietto di sola andata, Change + Partner Contemporary Art, Roma ... Nel 2003, ha partecipato alla 8th Havana Biennial, Havana ...

COLLABORAZIONI/COLLABORATIONS:

2007, Next Code, Love, Steirischer Herbst Festival of New Art, Gleisdorf, A . 2004, Convivialite, (Intervention on Structure Multifunction of Nicholas Floc’h with Selim Birsel), French Cultural Centre, Istanbul; . Buy a dream store, Apartment Project, Istanbul. (with Selda Asal) . Boz-yap doseme, Bir dukkan: Art Space, Istanbul. (with Selim Birsel) Residency Programmes.


RESIDENZE/RECIDENCY:

2009, Maison Daura  Residency Programme, France, Toulouse, Saint-Cirq . 2003, Gasworks Studios Residency Programme, London, UK . 1999, Unesco Bursary Programme, Cooperations Institution, Wiltz – Luxembourg.