Ebru Özseçen

Ebru Özseçen was born in Izmir in 1971. In 1994, she graduated from the School of Architecture at Bilkent University. She completed her master’s degree at her alma mater in 1996. Her work focuses on different aspects of the psychological and sociological relationship between space and body, and with specific environments or locations. She explores these themes through urban sculpture, interior and photography. She has had several solo exhibitions and participated in many group exhibitions in Turkey and abroad.

Selected exhibitions:
2000, "City", Science and Technology Museum, Coimbra (Solo)
2000, "Living The Island", Metropolitan Museum of Art, Busan
2000, "Ex Lux", Kunsthalle Tirol, Tirol
2000, "Das Lied von Der Erde", Museum Fridericianum, Kassel
2000, "Strange Home", Kestner Museum, Hannover
2000, "Springtime", Nikolaj Art Center, Copenhagen
2000, "Arguments", Ataturk Cultural Center, Istanbul
2000, "Friends and Neighbours", Limerick Biennial Ev+A, Limerick
2001, "Sugar Top Girl", Henry Urbach Architecture, New York (Solo)
2001, "Works", De Appel, Amsterdam (Seminar)
2001, "Metropolis Now", Borusan Art Center, Istanbul
2001, "Regrets Reveries Changing Skies", Karsi Sanat, Istanbul
2001, "Trans Sexual Express", Barcelona Triennale, Barcelona
2001, "Rodney Graham, Ebru Özseçen, Rosemarie Trockel", Lindig in Paludetto, Nürnberg
2001, "Locus Focus", Sonsbeek 9, Arnhem
2001, "The Big Blue", Tate Modern, London
2001, "Unlimited, nl-4", De Appel Foundation, Amsterdam
2001, "Les Interieur du Monde", Zaanstad Museum, Zaanstad-Sparnestaad Photo Archieve, Haarlem- Kaman Public Library, Kaman-Stadgalerie, Osnarbruck/P.I.,Mutare/Zwickau/Angers
2002, "Individual Geographies Global Maps", Nisantasi, Istanbul
2002, "Metropolis Now", Reine Sofia Museum, Madrid
2002, "Time Light", Whistable Biennial, Whistable
2002, "Latent Space", Netherlands Architecture Institute, Rotterdam
2002, "Time: Nature", Galerie Tanya Rumpff, Haarlem
2002, "Iconografias Metropolitanas", São Paulo Biennial, São Paulo
2002, "Armory Show", Henry Urbach Architecture, New York
2002, "3.rd Anniversary Show", Henry Urbach Architecture, New York
2003, "Intervention", Haus der Kunst, München (Seminar)
2003, "In den Schluchten des Balkan. Eine Reportage", Museum Fridericianum, Kassel
2003, "Golgeler ve Hayaletler", Platform, Istanbul
2004, "Who′s to follow", De Appel, Amsterdam (Symposium)
2004, "Les Points du Jour", Pont de Versailles, Paris
2004, "Love it or Leave it", Vth Cetinje Biennial,Cetinje
2004, "Fading Lace", Plantage Kerklaan 30, Amsterdam (Permanent)
2004, "Liste 04", Galerist, Basel
2005, "o.T. [ City IV ]", Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig
2006, "Meisterwerke der Medienkunst aus der ZKM_Sammlung", ZKM, Karlsruhe
2007, "Slow Space Fast Pace",Cork Art Trial, Cork
2007, "Türkisch Delight", Städtische Galerie Nordhorn, Nordhorn
2007, "Türkisch Delight", Städtische Galerie Backnang, Backnang
2007, "Modern and Beyond", Santral Istanbul, Istanbul
2007, "Inbetweeness", Ex Carceri del Complesso di San Michele a Ripa, Roma
2008, "Who Killed The Painting?", Neues Museum, Nuernberg
2008, "Food For Thought", U-Turn Satellite Exhibition, Stege Sukkerfabrik, Møn
2008, "Mahrem: Footnotes on Veiling", TANAS, Berlin
2008, "Old News 4", Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis
2008, "Paradise Revealed : Reanimation of Place", The Charlton Shopping Centre Parking, Dover
2008, "Paradise Revealed : Reanimation of Place", The Pine′s Garden St.Margaret′s Bay, Kent
2009, "Jawbreaker", Edition Block, Berlin (solo)
2009, "Coastal Currents", The Reading Room,12 Claremont, Hastings
2009, "Who Killed The Painting?", Weserburg Museum Fuer Moderne Kunst, Bremen
2009, "Library Presentation", Dover Library, Dover Discovery Centre, Dover (solo)
2009, "Embarkation", Town Centre Sign Boards, Dover (solo)
2010, "KISMET", TANAS, Berlin (solo)
2010, "Starter: Works from the Vehbi Koç Foundation Contemporarz Art Collection", ARTER, Istanbul
2010, "Intriguing Pictures", Steinle Contemporary, Munich

Awards and Residencies:
1996-1994, Bilkent University The Department of Fine Arts Institute of Economics and Social Sciences, Ankara, Turkey
1998-1997, Rijksakademie, Amsterdam Ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken, Nederland
1998, Medien Werkstatt, Wien
1999, NIFCA, Suomenlinna, Helsinki
2003, Couvent des Recollets, Paris

Reference: ebruozsecen.com, sanalmuze.org, universes-in-universe.org, artnews.org, Unleashed Contemporary Art from Turkey, (ed. Hossein Amirsadeghi, London: TransGlobe Publishing, 2010), p. 242-243.