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