Bio
BARIŞ SEYITVAN, Visual Artist & Curator
Sollmannweg 6, 12353 Berlin – Germany
Contact
Mobile +4917630667324
Email barisseyitvan@hotmail.com / @gmail.com
Web www.barisseyitvan.com
EDUCATION
2014 – 2017M.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 -2007Teaching Visual Art in Secondary School, Diyarbakir, Turkey.
RESIDENCIES, GRANTS & WORKSHOPS
2023Senate Department for Culture and Social cohesion: the 2023 research
scholarship in the field of visual arts
2023 Berliner Projektfonds Kulturelle Bildung
2022 Weltoffenes-Berlin Fellowship, Die Senatsverwaltung für Kultur – Ngbk – Berlin
2022 Exhibition Design And Curating( Creative Space Design), Goethe Institut,
Irak,KRG
2022 CoEWorkshop on Artistic Freedom – Council of Europe, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2021 Durchstarten, Foundation for cultural further education and cultural advice.
2021 Martin Roth Initiative, Berlin
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, Dutch Art Institut, Residency, Khartoum, Sudan
FILM JURY
2012 Aye Aye Film Festival, Professional Jury (BarışSeyitvan, Maka Batiashvili, Aleksey Manukyan, Fabienne Aguado, Harald Schluttig) Nancy, France
SEMINAR / CONFERENCES
2023 “Culture in theFace of TotalitarianRegimes”,University of theArts (UdK Berlin)
2022 Criticism Under Political Pressure, Akademie Der Künste, Berlin Germany
2022 At The Interface of Human Rights and the Arts, ZKM Karlsruhe
2021 The boundaries of the Earth, ( Online) Marmara Universty, Istanbul, Turkey
2017 University of the Aegean International Conference, Contested Borderscapes Transnational Geographies vis–à–vis Fortress Europe Mytilene, Lesvos, Greece
2014 Art and Artist in Northern Kurdistan, Jagiellonian University Krakow, Poland
TALKS
2022 AR TALKS Decentralized series, Floating Edition, Berlin
2020 Art Practices In Turkey And Kurdistan, UDK Berlin
2020 Protagonists, concepts, home and abroad: An Inside of the artistic and curatorial Work of Bariş Seyitvan in Diyarbakır, Turkey and foreign countries, International Artist Residency Villa Waldberta, Feldafing, Munich, Germany
2019 Artists in Risk,ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
2018 Base New Artist Platform, Istanbul, Turkey
2017 Contemporary Art Talks, Mardin, Turkey
CURATED EXHIBITIONS
2023 “Ein Bild von Einem Tor“Havîn Al-Sîndy – Nkr – Neuer Kunstraum, Düseldorf
2023 2+2 Krdstn“ Things told by us!“ Lausanne, Switzerland
2022 Art-Exile, Ulme Interkultur Anstalten 35, Berlin- Germany
2022 Binxet, Exhibition, Babylon Berlin, Germany
2022 ÇandKurd, Exhibition – Festival – Galerie Hinterland, Wien – Austria
2021 The Immunity, Galerie de Künstler*innen, Munich, Germany
2021 The Cure, Galerie Hinterland, Wien, Austria
2020 The Heirs, Galerie Hinterland, Wien, Austria
2019 Under the Same Sky, Luis Leu, Karlsruhe, Germany
the street heals me, RezzanGümgüm, solo Exhibition, Tosca Art & Design, Ankara, Turkey
2018 28th International Istanbul Art Fair, curated by Barış Seyitvan, Ezgi Bakçay, Eda Yiğit, Istanbul, Turkey
2017 The Settlement Of The Time, 27th International Istanbul Art Fair,Istanbul, Turkey
Husamettin Bahçe/ Êzîdxan, Photography Exhibition. Galerie Hinterland, Vienna, Austria
2016 Geography Does Not Mean the Destiny. Unexpected Territories, 26th InternationalIstanbul Art Fair, Istanbul, Turkey
Restrictions of the Earth, Galerie Hinterland, Vienna, Austria
Broken Constellation, Zurich, Switzerland
More Love – Daha Çok Sevgi, Amed Art Gallery, Diyarbakır, Turkey
WomanandDiyarbakirPrison,Museum Coordination Center of DiyarbakirPrisonNr 5, Diyarbakır, Turkey
Restrictions of the Earth–Yeryüzünün Sınırları, Karşı Sanat, Istanbul Turkey
2015 Kalan–Mayî–Remains,Amed Art Gallery, Diyarbakır, Turkey
Mein Auge– Çavê min, Ega, Vienna, Austria
MuzafferOruçoğlu–Retrospective–Glittered, Amed Art Gallery, Diyarbakır, Turkey
Kurdistan International Art Meeting, Amed Art Gallery, Diyarbakır, Turkey
Osman Kader Ahmed, Drawing From Memory of Anfal /Kurdish Genocide, Amed Art Gallery, Diyarbakır, Turkey
2013 Mehmet Kapçak–Retrospective, Amed Art Gallery, Diyarbakır, Turkey
Bakur–North–Kuzey, Amed Art Gallery, Diyarbakır, Turkey
2012 Bakur–North–Kuzey, Amed Art Gallery, Diyarbakır, Turkey
EXHIBITIONS
2023 2+2 Krdstn“ Things told by us!“ Lausanne, Switzerland
2022 Faces Of Duration, Bydgoszczy, GaleriaMuzeum w BCF (BydgoskimCentrumFinansowym)
2022 Synapse , Video Art Exhibition, Ankara, Turkey
2021 The Immunity, Galerie de Künstler*innen, Munich, Germany
2020 The Heirs, Galerie Hinterland, Wien, Austria
Persecuted Art Persecuted Artists Persecuted Culture, Basel, Switzerland
2019 Mass Memory Machines, Ar Pavilion, Helsinki
Maps of Control, Suleymaniye, Kurdistan Regional Government, Iraq
Here an Elsewhere, Museum of Contemporary Art, Vojvodina, Serbia
Confrontations, Diyarbakir, Mardin, Istanbul, Izmir, Turkey
2018 Digital Art Contemporary Photography, Zamwa Gallery, Suleymaniye, Kurdistan Regional Government, Iraq
2017 Utopian Intersection “UTOPIA”, 27th InternationalIstanbul Art Fair, Istanbul, Turkey
Art By Email, Yorkshire Sculpture Park London, United Kingdom
2016 Do Objects Have a Memory?, Hub Art Space, Ankara, Turkey
MerkezkaçDeğirmen, Diyarbakır, Turkey
BuradanNereye?,KollektifSanatPratikleri, 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, GaleriaMiejska 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
Frozen Project 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–UğurKöse, 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