EDA GECİKMEZ

CV

EDUCATION 

2020 – on-going PhD Hacettepe University, Institute of Fine Arts, Painting Department, Ankara

2016 – 17 Home Workspace Program, Ashkal Alwan, Beirut, Lebanon

2010 – 19 MA Yıldız Technical University, Art & Design Department, Istanbul

2005 – 10 BA Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Faculty of Fine Arts, the Department of Painting and Etching Studio, Istanbul

2007 – 08 BA Facultad de Bellas Artes de San Carlos de Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Valencia, Spain

2003 – 05 BA Marmara University, Faculty of Fine Arts, the Department of Painting, Istanbul

 

GRANTS – WORKSHOPS – RESIDENCIES 

2023 ISCP (International Studio & Curatorial Program) artist residency program, New York, United States, supported by SAHA             Foundation

2022 Ankara: City and Memory Workshop, VEKAM, Ankara 

       .  Goethe-Institut Ankara Production Grant for the art project The Bird is Unseen, yet its Voice is in the Tree, Galeri Vitrin,               Ankara

2018 The Social City Exchange Program by Swedish Institute, Stockholm and Istanbul

2016 – 17 SAHA Grant for Home Workspace Program, Ashkal Alwan, Beirut, Lebanon

2015 Cittadellarte, Fondazione Pistoletto, Artist in Residency Biella, Italy 

       .  Kultivera, Artist in Residency, Tranas, Sweden

       .  Creative Action & Public Intervention Workshop, Armenia – Turkey

          Normalisation Process Support Program, Anadolu Kültür, Istanbul

2012 Borders Orbits 11 – 12 Competition, Siemens Art, Istanbul
2010 Feldstaerke International 2010, International Art Students’ Exchange  Programme Centre, Workshops, PACT Zollverein,               Essen, Germany; Centquatre, Paris, France; Kadırga Art Istanbul, Turkey

2009 City and Art Project Workshops, Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Istanbul, Turkey; Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, Austria 

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS 

2022 The Bird is Unseen, yet its Voice is in the Tree, Goethe-Institut, Ankara

2020 Broken Open, Galeri Nev, Ankara

2018 Landscape In a Capsule, Gallery Nev, Ankara

        . Tiny Office Art, Women Artist From Art Scene of Turkey: Eda Gecikmez, Consulate General of Sweden, Istanbul

2016 Master Plan, protocinema, imç5533, Istanbul

        . Borrowed Togetherness, m1886 Art Projects, Ankara

2013 Borrowed Togetherness, American Hospital Art Gallery, Istanbul 

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 

2022 Oeuvre and Grace, Erimtan Museum, Ankara

       .  Skin and Soul, Müze Evliyagil & Papko Art Collection, curator: Beral Madra, Istanbul

       .  Another Round, Kendi Collection, Istanbul

       .  O!, Galeri Nev, Ankara

2019 Tüm Gezegenler İçerideydi, Galeri Nev, Maçka Sanat Galerisi, Istanbul

2018 Mahalla Festival, Palazzo in Zabbar, Malta 

       .  The Sun Is Still There (conceptual frame and organizing with Sevil Tunaboylu), ArtSumer, Istanbul

       .  A Future of Travel: Journey of The Artwork, NOKS Independent Art Space, Istanbul

       .  The Animal Side, Mixer Gallery, Istanbul

2017 Angels’ Share, DEPO, Istanbul 

       .  Av, ArtOda, Evliyagil Museum, Ankara

       .  Open Studios – HWP, Ashkal Alwan, Beirut, Lebanon

       .  Now You Are Here, Arte Sanat, Ankara

2016 Anakara, Evliyagil Museum, Ankara 

       .  Produce 3: The Game Settled Into A Cagey Midfield Match, SPOT Production Fund , Elhamra Han, Istanbul

       .  Ottomans and Europeans: Pasts and Prospectives, Tophane-i Amire, Istanbul

2015 Alien Self-Disorder, Tranas, Sweden 

       .  Drawing Thoughts, CAM Gallery, Istanbul

       .  Mythologies, 3rd Mardin Biennial, Mardin

2014 Stay with me, Apartment Project, Berlin, Germany 

       .  Small is beautiful, KUAD Gallery, Istanbul

       .  1984, Gallery Nev, Ankara

2012 Borders Orbits 11- 12, Siemens Sanat, Istanbul 

       .  Museum inside Museum, Proje4L, Istanbul

       .  Reality Terror, Periferi Collective, DEPO, Karşı Sanat, Asfalt Art Gallery, Istanbul 

2011 TIHV 20th Year Exhibition: Where Fire Has Struck, DEPO, Istanbul

2010 Feldstaerke International 2010, International Art Students’ Exchange Programme, PACT Zollverein, Essen, Germany;                   Centquatre, Paris, France; Kadırga Art Centre, Istanbul

2009 City and Art Project, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and Gallery Time, Vienna, Austria; Tophane-i Amire Culture Centre,                 Istanbul

 

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE 

2021 – on-going Lecturer at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Design and Architecture, Ankara Medipol University

       .  Presentation of ‘’Art and Resistance: Interactions Between Artists and Anti-Gentrification Movements’’ at The Art and The            City: Urban Space, Art and Social Change Conference, Aarhus University, Denmark with Yasemin Bahçekapılı

2020 Guest Lecturer at the Department of Architecture, TED University, Ankara. 

       .  Presentation of ‘’Urban Transformation and Contemporary Art: Reading The Urban Transformation Experienced In Istanbul

          Through Artworks’’ in National Symposium of Postgraduate Spatial Studies, Faculty of Architecture, Department of City

          and Regional Planning, MSFAU, Istanbul and the article is selected to publish in Tasarım+Kuram Journal of Faculty of

          Architecture, MSFAU 

2018 – 19 Member of the scientific research project ‘’New Urban Social Movements in Istanbul’’, MSFAU, Faculty of

          Architecture, Department of City and Regional Planning. Presented in Urban Visions workshop, TMMOB; Çarşamba

          Seminerleri,  MSFAU; AURA İstanbul, Colloquium of 8 of November Urbanism Day, TED University, Ankara 

 

TALKS – SEMINARS – WORKSHOPS – OTHERS 

2022 Artist talk moderated by Tuçe Erel, Goethe-Institut, Ankara

        . Brawe Art Project, collage workshop, Eldem Sanat Alanı, Eskişehir

2021 Collage, online seminar, Department of Architecture, Bilgi University

       .  Fantastic Collage Workshop, Project 07 Festival, Bilgi University

       .  Landscape by Collage, workshop, Pera Museum

       .  Collage in the context of body and space, online lecture, Department of 

          Architecture, METU

2020 Collage workshop, Department of Architecture, Bilgi University 

       .  Festival Arena Episode 12: Gender Equality Activism in the Arts, radio talk with Gizem Bayıksel, hosted by Esra A. Aysun,            British Council

       .  Visual Communication and Culture, online seminar, Ayvansaray University

2019 Krank Art Talks, artist talk with Eda Aslan, Güneş Terkol and Zeynep Beler, Istanbul 

       .  Spot Projects, artist talk, Istanbul

       .  Base Talks, artist talk with Neriman Polat, moderated by Esra Aliçavuşoğlu, Istanbul

       .  Representation by Collage, seminar, Interior Architecture Department, Haliç University

2018 BLOK Art Space, artist talk with Merve Ertufan, Istanbul

       .  Miss Power, 8th March Artists Meeting Conference moderated by Beral Madra, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul

2017 – 21 Writing for online journal 5Harfliler https://www.5harfliler.com/author/eda-gecikmez/ 

       .  Die Zeit German Newspaper Page Cover

2016 Book Cover of Topology of Violence by Byung – Chul Han, Metis Publishing 

2014 – 16 Participating art and music performances with the artist group HaZaVuZu

2013 Açık Masa, artist talk with Sevil Tunaboylu and Zeyno Pekünlü, DEPO, Istanbul

2011 – 15 Member of the feminist art labourers initiative ‘’Kırmızı Kart’’

2011 – 13 Member of the artist initiative “Periferi Kolektif” and worked at the organization of many exhibitions such as Ubik,                   Reality Terror and published fanzines and avantgarde magazine called Siber Gnosis.

2010 – 11 Performances with musician Tuna Pase, Feldstaerke International 2010, Centquatre, Paris, France and                                   Galataperform, Istanbul

2009 – 11 Worked as an assistant in Apartment Project, Istanbul, Turkey.

2009 Group performance “Fat Carpet” City and Art project, Tophane-i Amire Culture Center, Istanbul. Group performance                   “FlashRue” with Caroline Selig, ̈cˇu’m„a* Ertesi ACTIVITIES, Eminönü, Istanbul

2008 Group performances with Bartolomé Ferrando, Valencia, Spain

       .  Performance with Esther Ferrer, ‘’El Arte Es Acciòn”, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain

 

PUBLICATION – SELECTED BOOK FEATURES 

2018 Domates Biber Patlıcan, 2012- 2016, PRODUCE, The Compendium of an Event, Istanbul 

        . B3 Collection, Arnavutköy, Istanbul

2017 Sarp Evliyagil Collection, Ankara

2016 ISTANBUL CODEX, Contemporary Artists From Turkey, Imago Mundi, Luciano Benetton Collection

        . Ottomans & Europeans, Reflecting on Five Centuries of Cultural Relations, BOZAR; Muzeum Narodowe W Krakowie;                 Kunst Historisches Museum Wien; IKSV; Citta Dell Arte Fondazione Pistoletto

2015 Stay With Me, Apartment Project, Berlin

2013 Artist Catalogue Eda Gecikmez: Ödünç Alınmış Birliktelik / Borrowed Togetherness 134 pages, Vehbi Koç Vakfı Amerikan             Hastanesi Yayınları, No: 29, December 2013, ISBN: 978-605-8607-62-0