>>>
Ulufer Çelik (b. 1992, Antalya/ Turkey) is an artist, who lives and works in Rotterdam, Netherlands.
She completed her studies in the MA Art Praxis program at the Dutch Art Institute in 2018. Her artistic practice explores the potentialities of narrative and myth-making, that is expressed through moving image, poetry, drawing, sound and performance. In her work, she constructs on multi-layered planes through a non-linear perception of time. She searches for queer, immigrant, feminist ways of making and thinking with the archeological, spiritual and spatial traces of memory. She is a member of Eat-House Collective, W1555 Artist Community and a resident at Putsebocht 3.
Her work has been exhibited in several shows at Growing Space, Corridor Project Space, Are Projects, Rib, State of Concept, Yellow Brick Gallery, Litost Gallery, Institute for Provocation, Belmacz Gallery and Wuerttembergischer Kunstverein.
>>>
Education
2016-2018 Dutch Art Institute, MA Art Praxis, Artez University of the Arts.
2010- 2014 Istanbul Bilgi University, Bachelor of Architecture, top of class
Exhibitions
2021 'Family of Things', Are Project Space, Antalya, Turkey.
2020 'Print and Play', Boijmans Museum Hillevliet, Rotterdam.
2020 'Fresh Myths Different Times', Growing Space, Rotterdam.
2020 ‘Publiek Werken’, Poster Exhibition on the public spaces of Rotterdam.
2020 Frozen Time, Corridor Project Space, Amsterdam
2020 ‘I love it when translation can be found to agree with our weird desires’, in collaboration with Alaa Abu Asad, Jan Van Eyck Open Studio Days
2020 'Dreaming Ruins', Sleeping with a Vengeance, Dreaming of A Life, Wuerttembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Curated by Ruth Noack and Hans D. Christ.
2019 ‘I love it when translation can be found to agree with our weird desires’, in collaboration with Alaa Abu Asad, Translocal Scores, Akademie der Bildenden Künste Wien, Curated by Heinrich Pichler, Simonetta Ferfoglia, Ruby Sircar.
2019 ‘I love it when translation can be found to agree with our weird desires’, in collaboration with Alaa Abu Asad, B, Belmacz Gallery London
2019 Quintessential Pirateness in the Age of Coney Island Adventures, in collaboration with Cihad Caner, Rib Gallery, Rotterdam. 2019 Bodies in Volution & Volitional Act #1, in collaboration with Merve Kılıçer, Midnigth Sunburn Exhibition, Het Nieuwe Institute, Rotterdam
2019 ‘Two Faces of Nostalgia’, Film Screening, Roffa Film Club, Worm Rotterdam
2019 ‘For the Shallowness of Integrity’, Poetry Reading, Queer Poetry Nights 3rd Edition, Tender Center Rotterdam
2018 'Dreaming Ruins III', Sleeping with a Vengeance, Dreaming of A Life, Institute for Provocation, Beijing. Curated by Ruth Noack.
2018 'Dreaming Ruins III', Sleeping with a Vengeance, Dreaming of A Life, Institute for Provocation, Beijing. Curated by Ruth Noack.
2018 'Dreaming Ruins II', Sleeping with a Vengeance, Dreaming of A Life, Litost Gallery, Prag. Curated by Ruth Noack.
2018 'Dreaming Ruins I', Sleeping with a Vengeance, Dreaming of A Life, YellowBrick Gallery, Athens. Curated by Ruth Noack.
2018 'I love it when translation can be found to agree with our weird desires', graduation performance with Alaa Abu Asad, State of Concept, Athens.
2017 ‘A Functional Anatomy for Anticipatory Anxiety’, Degrees of Freedom, Curated by Bassam El Baroni, Designhuis, Eindhoven
2017 ‘Waterhole Bar’, Van Abbe Museum- As a part of the Caucus 'Becoming More' , Eindhoven
2016 'Stay With Me', Corridor Project Space, Amsterdam
2015 'HEY! Imaginable Guidelines Istanbul(igi)', MAXXI, Rome, 'Istanbul: Passion, Joy, Fury'
2015 'Stay With Me', Weserburg Museum-Research Centre for Artists’ Publications, Bremen, 'Inside the City'
2015 'Action Variations No:1, Analysison Stone-Throwing Practice',
Chamber of Architects of Turkey Istanbul Metropolitan Branch, 'City/Stone Exhibition'
2015 'Stay With Me', DEPO, Istanbul
2014 'HEY! Imaginable Guidelines Istanbul(igi)', International Architecture Biennial of Antalya(IABA)
2014 Aparment Projekt, Berlin, 'Stay With Me'
2014 'HEY! Imaginable Guidelines Istanbul(igi)', Studio-X Istanbul
2014 'Fountain, Beanpole, Sculpture', Torun, Ankara
2012 'Public Interventions in City', Istanbul Design Biennial, Educational pragrammes,
3 channeled video installation and a map
2012 ‘Material System’, International Architecture Biennial of Antalya,
Publications & Residencies
2020 No Matter How Deeply Buried, That Rhythm Could Not Be Killed, Rotterdam Art Writing.
2019 ‘I love it when translation can be found to agree with our weird desires’, in collaboration with Alaa Abu Asad, Mophradat Books
2018 Dream Art Institute, Arnhem, Netherlands, AIR, 1 year
2018 ‘Back and Forth Between Now and 32.000 years ago’, edited and translated by Ozge Ersoy, m-est.org.
2017 Archival Research Residency, Harvard University, Peabody Museum in ‘Hetty Goldman
Collection’, Cambridge MA
2015 'Future as a Collective Hope', 'Yapı' -Monthly Architecture, Design Culture and Art
Magazine, Issue 409, p1.7-19, december, 2015.
Grants & Honors & Awards
2020 Volumes First Publication Award, Switzerland.
2020 SAHA Artist Grant, İstanbul.
2019 Mophradat Grants for Artists, Belgium.
2014 Istanbul Bilgi University, Bachelor of Architecture, high honour degree, top of class.