Ali Dolanbay

Ali Dolanbay studied 3D Design at the University of Central England in Birmingham from 1997 to 1998. He pursued his study on Mixed Media Fine Art at the University of Westminster in London from 1998 to 2002. In 2005, Dolanbay founded the non-profit project space “Meinblau” in Berlin with a group of artists, and begun "A" project, which was a temporary platform for independent art projects. He has produced series of paintings and performative installations evolving a new aesthetics, negotiating the dichotomy of Performativity & Constativity – Actuality & Potentiality and Act & Acting within the mode of the practice, and exhibited and performed in numerous shows in London, Istanbul and Berlin. He has had two solo exhibitions: “Heavy Paintings” (Berlin, 2009) and “Heavy Paintings – Beyond Traces” (Istanbul, 2011). In 2011, he started a series of paintings and performative installations titled “Untitled Act.” Currently, Dolanbay continues to research and practice in the field of "Performative Aesthetics" in Berlin, London and Istanbul.

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