• Bio
  • Works
    • Cleaning Operation | 2019
    • Fear | 2019
    • Target – Estonia – Tallinn | 2012
    • Countrerattack | 2011
    • Comeback | 2011
    • Colorful World | 2009
    • Circle of Life Sudan-Khartum | 2007
    • Performance -Sudan – Khartum | 2007
    • Every Stone Wants To Be Free, İnstallation | 2005
  • Texts
    • Homelessness and Rootlessness and Nomad Art in Contemporary Art
  • Curatorial
    • So Near Yet So Far – 2020
    • The Heirs | 2020
    • Under the same sky | 2019
    • The Street Heals Me 2019
    • 28th İstanbul Art Fair – Experience | ARTIST | 2018
    • The Settlement Of The Time – İstanbul | 2017
    • Êzidxan – Vienna | 2017
    • Geography is not Destiny İstanbul | 2016
    • Restrictions Of The Earth – Vienna | 2016
    • Restrictions Of The Earth- İstanbul | 2016
    • Women and Diyarbakır Prison Nr 5 | 2015
    • Drawing Form Memory of Anfal / Kurdish Genocide – Osman Kader Ahmed | 2015
    • North Kuzey Bakur | 2014
  • Contact

Barış Seyitvan

  • Bio
  • Works
    • Cleaning Operation | 2019
    • Fear | 2019
    • Target – Estonia – Tallinn | 2012
    • Countrerattack | 2011
    • Comeback | 2011
    • Colorful World | 2009
    • Circle of Life Sudan-Khartum | 2007
    • Performance -Sudan – Khartum | 2007
    • Every Stone Wants To Be Free, İnstallation | 2005
  • Texts
    • Homelessness and Rootlessness and Nomad Art in Contemporary Art
  • Curatorial
    • So Near Yet So Far – 2020
    • The Heirs | 2020
    • Under the same sky | 2019
    • The Street Heals Me 2019
    • 28th İstanbul Art Fair – Experience | ARTIST | 2018
    • The Settlement Of The Time – İstanbul | 2017
    • Êzidxan – Vienna | 2017
    • Geography is not Destiny İstanbul | 2016
    • Restrictions Of The Earth – Vienna | 2016
    • Restrictions Of The Earth- İstanbul | 2016
    • Women and Diyarbakır Prison Nr 5 | 2015
    • Drawing Form Memory of Anfal / Kurdish Genocide – Osman Kader Ahmed | 2015
    • North Kuzey Bakur | 2014
  • Contact

Bio

BARIŞ SEYITVAN, Visual Artist & Curator 

1982–Diyarbakır / Turkey

Contact

Mobile  +4915156676471

             +90 530 695 69 81

Email  barisseyitvan@hotmail.com / @gmail.com

Web    www.barisseyitvan.com

Education

2014 – 2017  M.A. Program in Artuklu University, Mardin, Turkey

2012 – 2014“Sociology” Anadolu University, Eskişehir, Turkey

2000 – 2004  B.A. “Fine  Arts  Education” Dicle  University  Faculty  of  Education,  Diyarbakir– Turkey

 

Work Experiences

2017               Coordinator for the Open Call, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.), 

Berlin Contemporary Arts Institution, ASA (Autonomous Space Agency), Berlin, Germany

2010 – 2015  Art Lecture,in the Aram Tigran Conservatory Diyarbakır, Turkey

2009 – 2017 Curator in the Amed Art Gallery and Municipality Art Gallery, Diyarbakır, Turkey

2006               Teaching Visual Art in Secondary School, Diyarbakir, Turkey.

Residencies & Workshops

2020               International Artist Residency Villa Waldberta, Feldafing, Munich, Germany

2019               ZKM Curatorial Department, Karlsruhe, Germany

                        Helsinki International Artist Program (HIAP), Helsinki, Finland

2017               Borderscapes Workshop in Contested Borderscapes Conference:  Transnational Geographies vis–à–vis Fortress Europe. Mytilene, Lesvos, Greece

2013               Fire Project Residency and Workshop, Zaxo, Kurdistan Regional Government, Iraq

2012               Aye aye Film Festival–Frozen Project “Exhibition Residency and Workshop–Nancy,France

                        Polymer Culture Factory Festival 2012, Residency, Workshop and Exhibition, Tallinn, Estonia

2011               Frozen Public Art Project, Workshop Leader and Residency, Kars– Diyarbakır,Turkey, Gyumri,Armenia

2007               Here As The Center Of The World, Workshop and Exhibition, Dutch Art Institute, Residency. Enschede, Holland

                        Here As The Center Of The World, Workshop and Exhibition, Dutch Art Institute  &  Anadolu Culture Center, Diyarbakır,Turkey

2006               Here As The Center Of The World, Workshop and Exhibition, DutchArt Institut, Residency, Khartoum,Sudan

Film Jury

2012               Aye Aye Film Festival, Professional Jury (Barış Seyitvan,Maka   Batiashvili,Aleksey Manukyan, Fabienne Aguado,Harald Schluttig)   Nancy,France

2016               Do Objects Have a Memory?, Hub Art Space, Ankara, Turkey

                        Merkezkaç Değirmen, Diyarbakır, Turkey

                        Buradan Nereye?, Kollektif Sanat Pratikleri, Santralistanbul, Istanbul, Turkey

                        Broken Constellation, Zurich, Switzerland

2015               Newroz–Yenigün–New Day, Gallery Apel, Istanbul, Turkey

                        International Kurdistan Art Meeting, Diyarbakır, Turkey

                        Summer in the garden of gathered videos, Videoist, Mardin, Turkey

                        Memory–Tace–Solidarity Exhibition, Diyarbakır, Turkey

2014               Rurality Video Exhibition, Mixerart, Istanbul, Turkey

                        Rurality Video Exhibition, Galeria Miejska BWA, Poland

                        Rurality Video Exhibition, International Video Salon, London, UK

2013               Milat, Rumeli Han, Exhibition Hall, Istanbul, Turkey

2012               Community art Project, Deventer, Rotterdam, Netherlands

                        FrozenProject Exhibition, Nancy, France.

                        Festival of Hawler Freedom &Newroz, Midya Hall Erbil, Kurdistan  Regional Government

                        Prescript, Ada Art Gallery,Istanbul, Turkey.

2011               Once Upon a Time… a Place, Diyarbakır, Turkey

                        Be Alert!, Merg Art Gallery, Erbil, Kurdistan Regional Government

                        Be Alert!, Duhok Art Gallery, Duhok, Kurdistan Regional Government

                        Take Care of You, Amed Art Gallery, Diyarbakir, Turkey

                        %100 Peace, CKM Gallery, Diyarbakir, Turkey

                        %100 Peace, Ada Art Gallery, Istanbul,Turkey

2009               Personality Crisis, Outlet Gallery, Istanbul,Turkey

2008               Young Minds,Created By–Uğur Köse, Istanbul, Turkey

                        Lite–side Festival, Amsterdam, Netherlands

                        8th Culture and Art Festival of Diyarbakır, Diyarbakır, Turkey

2007               Here as the Center of the World, in Pluto, Enschede, Netherlands

            Here as the Center of the World, Villa de Bank– Enschede, Netherlands 

                        Here as the Center of the World, Diyarbakır Art Centre, Diyarbakır, Turkey

2005               Here as the Center of the World, Sudan, Africa

                        Newroz, 7th Culture and Art Festival of Diyarbakır, Created by Nuran Terzioglu, Diyarbakır, Turkey                         

2003               Eye Contact, Diyarbakir Art Center, Diyarbakır, Turkey

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