NERIMAN POLAT
b. 1968, Istanbul, Turkey
Lives and works in Istanbul, Turkey
Education
1990 – BFA, Painting, Mimar Sinan University of Fine Arts, Istanbul, Turkey
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 – Roofless, Zilberman, Istanbul, Turkey
2019 – Breaking the Seal: A Selection / 1996–2019, curated by Derya Yücel & Mahmut Wenda Koyuncu, Depo, Istanbul, Turkey
2018 – Merciless, Merdiven Art Space, Istanbul, Turkey
2015 – Threshold, Disambigua Art Space, Viterbo, Italy
2015 – Home Watch, Nazım Hikmet Cultural Center, Nilüfer Municipality, Bursa, Turkey
2013 – Home Watch, Depo, Istanbul, Turkey
2010 – Modest View, C.A.M Gallery, Asmalımescit, Istanbul, Turkey
2008 – Father’s Home Apartment, Pi Artworks, Istanbul, Turkey
2007 – Foto – Grave, Apartman Project, Istanbul, Turkey
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 – 1st Turkish Textile Biennial, Izmir, Turkey
2023 – Resurrection, Elgiz Museum, Istanbul, Turkey
2023 – Collective Healing, curated by Ayça Okay, Metrohan, Istanbul, Turkey
2023 – Vision, Mission, Values, curated by Melis Golar, Zilberman Selected, Istanbul, Turkey
2022 – Art, Body and Resistance, Karşı Sanat, Istanbul, Turkey
2022 – Böyle Şeyler Romanlarda Olur, curated by Jale Öner, Feshane Umut Buluşması (İBB & Karşı Sanat), Istanbul, Turkey
2022 – Eve Dönmek İstemiyorum, curated by Ahmet Ergenç, Feshane Umut Buluşması (İBB & Karşı Sanat), Istanbul, Turkey
2022 – Settling into the Abyss, curated by Naz Kocadere, Zilberman, Istanbul, Turkey
2022 – Who She, She Who, Merkür Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey
2022 – The Insanity of Normality, Kun Art Space, curated by Derya Yücel, Adana, Turkey
2021 – Ak-sayanlar, concept by Merve Akar Akgün & Çınar Eslek, collaborative work with Sema Kaygusuz, X-ist, Istanbul, Turkey
2021 – Affirmative World, curated by Mahmut Wenda Koyuncu, Summart, Istanbul, Turkey
2021 – Senkron / Lens’21: Personal Narratives in Video Art, Mixer, Istanbul, Turkey
2021 – Arkasia, curated by Ayça Okay, 16th Istanbul Contemporary Art Fair, Istanbul, Turkey
2020 – Sensitive Intervention, curated by Ahmet Ergenç, Literature House, Istanbul, Turkey
2020 – Billboard Istanbul, curated by Lise Grüner Bertelsen, Istanbul, Turkey
2020 – Flower Wound, curated by Derya Yücel, Kasa Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey
2019 – Shores, curated by Victor Loukin, Mikhail Pogarsky & İpek Duben, Open Club Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2018 – The Big Picture, curated by Zeynep Ozatalay, Amnesty International, Depo, Istanbul, Turkey
2018 – Face Blindness, curated by Firdevs Kayhan & Ece Balcıoğlu, Bayan Yanı Art Project, Istanbul, Turkey
2018 – The First Round, Banu & Hakan Çarmıklı Collection, Galata Greek Primary School, Istanbul, Turkey
2018 – Metaphorical Space, curated by Pınar Öğrenci & Minou Norouzi, MARSIstanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
2017 – Artist 27th International Istanbul Art Fair: Utopia, Now/Here, curated by Mahmut Wenda Koyuncu, Istanbul, Turkey
2017 – A Room of Our Own, curated by Arzu Yayıntaş, Ark Kültür, Istanbul, Turkey
2016 – Unexpected Territories, curated by Ezgi Bakçay, 26th International Istanbul Art Fair, Istanbul, Turkey
2016 – Past, In Each of its Moments, Be Citable, Depo, Istanbul, Turkey
2016 – Impenitent, concept & design by Neriman Polat & Arzu Yayıntaş, Ark Kültür & Nazım Hikmet Cultural Center, Bursa, Turkey
2015 – 25th International Istanbul Art Fair: Amarcord, I Remember, curated by Ali Şimşek, Istanbul, Turkey
2015 – Stay With Me!, Apartment Project, Depo, Istanbul, Turkey
2014 – Small Faces, Large Sizes, Elgiz Museum, Istanbul, Turkey
2014 – Stay With Me, Apartment Project, Berlin, Germany
2014 – ODTÜ Sanat 15, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey
2013 – Akbank Sanat Print Studio Exhibition, curated by Hasan Bülent Kahraman, Aksanat, Istanbul, Turkey
2012 – 3rd International Çanakkale Biennial: Fictions and Dissensions, curated by Beral Madra, Seyhan Boztepe, Deniz Erbaş & Fırat Arapoğlu, Çanakkale, Turkey
2011 – Dream and Reality: Modern and Contemporary Artists from Turkey, Istanbul Modern, Istanbul, Turkey
2010 – Collective Privacy, C.A.M Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey
2009 – Creative Rooms, Certosa Hotel, Venice, Italy
2007 – Under My Feet I Want the World, Not Heaven, curated by Beral Madra & Çetin Güzelhan, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany
2003 – 50th Venice Biennale: In Limbo, curated by Beral Madra, Turkish Pavilion, Venice, Italy
1999 – 6th Istanbul Biennial: Passion and Waves, curated by Paolo Colombo, Istanbul, Turkey
(Further group exhibitions from 1996–2008 available on request.)
PRESENTATIONS / PANELS (Selected)
2020 – IFSAK: Thinking with Photography – City / Violence / Body, Istanbul
2019 – Art Conversations Between Generations, BASE Talks, Istanbul
2018 – Who is the Merciless?, Merdiven Art Space, Istanbul
2017 – Identity, Belonging, Body: Alternative Approaches, Istanbul Aydın University, Istanbul
2016 – Sisterhood Exhibitions as Protest, Nazım Hikmet Cultural Center, Bursa
2014 – The Personal is Political, Kocaeli University, Kocaeli
2013 – Exhibition Talk: Home Watch, Depo, Istanbul
2012 – Where Have We Been Cast Away?, Depo, Istanbul
2011 – Siyah Bant: Censorship in Contemporary Art, Cezayir Salon, Istanbul