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Deniz Gül was born in Izmir in 1982. After finishing at American Collegiate Institute in Izmir, she graduated from the Department of Visual Arts and Communication Design in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Sabanci University in 2004. Gül uses photography, video, objects, and text to create works of art that examine the construction of identity and space through social roles, urban myths, and representation. Dealing with the matter′s conditions of existence, she deconstructs her subjects to capture and develop a newer reality. Her artistic practice involves public interventions or site specific productions. Gül has participated in many group exhibitions, projects, and workshops in Turkey and abroad.
Gül is also a writer for various magazines and a blogger about contemporary culture, arts, design, and urban life. Between 2007 and 2009, she worked as an editor in the “ICON” magazine TR – design and architecture. In 2008, her fictive-documentary work “Zeytinburnu Monologues” was published as a part of “Urban Makers – Parallel Narratives of Grassroots Practices and Tensions.” In the same year, she participated in the Tokyo Wonder Site residency program. She also exposed her work in the “Post-it Cities” exhibition which was held in the Centre De Cultura Contemporania, Barcelona. In 2009, her work has been exhibited in Lille, during the Lille300 as a part of “Istanbul Traversee” exhibition, Palais des Beaux Artes. In 2011, Gül had her first solo exhibition “Beş Kişilik Bufet” at Arter gallery in Istanbul.
Group exhibitions:
2004, "New Suggestions New Proposals 12", Borusan Art Gallery, Istanbul
2004, "Towards Naples 2", Kasa Gallery, Istanbul
2005, "Open Days, KHOJ 2005", Bombay
2005, "12th Biennial of Young and Mediterranean Artists", Naples, Italy with Bijcem
2005, "Catanie Arte Fiera", Catania (Italy)
2005, "Terminal", Triskel Art Gallery, Cork (Ireland)
2006, "Copykiller", Akbank Sanat, Istanbul
2006, "Ifsak First International Istanbul Biennial of Photography", Istanbul
2006, "Going Public ′06", Modena with aMAZE Lab, Italy
2007, "Nev /Tepebaşı", Gallery Nev, Istanbul
2007, "Sidewalkcinema", Vienna
2007, "Never Been To Tehran", Tehran, Istanbul, San Francisco, Auckland, Copenhagen, Chicago, Pittsburgh
2008, "Occasional Cities: Post-it City and Other Forms of Temporality", Centre De Cultura Contemporania", Barcelona
2008, "Bodig 08", Hafriyat Karaköy, Istanbul
2008, "What Game Shall We Play Today?", Tokyo Wonder Site, Shibuya, Tokyo
2009, "Istanbul Traverseé", Palais des Beaux Artes, Lille 3000, Lille
Reference: denizgul.com, arter.org.tr
photographs © Cemal Emden |
