Artist

Deniz Gul

Born in Izmir, 1982 and lives in Istanbul, Turkey

Gul often investigates language as texts and signs, but also as objects and environments, curious to dig meaning and unconscious. Collaborating with traditional artisans, musicians and writers she often interrogates how public and private domains are constructed through objects. She is seeking to redefine invisible boundaries, and interested in infusing spaces and objects into new patterns of experience. Over years, she has developed an object-oriented philosophy and strongly believed that objects and places manifest themselves and cannot be exhausted by their relations with humans, that the reality of objects and spaces is always another reality.
Her multi-phased project 5 Person Bufet was curated by Emre Baykal in Arter, in 2011 and was completed as a collaborative performance in Hyde Park Art Center in Chicago, in 2015. She has been awarded by CecArtsLink in Ny (2014) and she was invited to residencies at Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago (2012); Tokyo Wonder Site, Tokyo (2008), Khoj, Mumbai (2006). Her work has been included in exhibitions in institutions in Europe as well, including Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg (2012); the Center for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw (2010); Palais des Beaux Arts, Lille (2009); Centre De Cultura Contemporania, Barcelona (2008). Her second solo exhibition B.I.M.A.B.K.R. was a three part installation that took place in Gallery Mana, in 2013, in Istanbul.
Recently she is invited to do a site specific installation in a rundown Greek apartment in Beyoğlu, for the 14. Istanbul Biennial curated by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev.

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