Nancy Atakan b. 1946

Solo Exhibitions

 

2023   A State of Acceptance, (with Kalliopi Lemos), Gazelli Art House, Baku, Azerbaijan

2023   Unlock, Beymen Zorlu Center, Istanbul, Turkey

2023   The Scent of Time, Pi Artworks, İstanbul, Turkey

2020   Remembering the Future, Vortic Collect, on line exhibition, London

2020   It still is as it always was, (with Kalliopi Lemos) Pi Artworks London

2020   Translation in Motion, (with Maria Andersson) Riksidrottsmuseet, Stockholm, Sweden

2019   Forward, March, (with Maria Andersson) Salt Beyoğlu, Istanbul

2019   Marking a Shift, (with Maria Andersson) Galleri Box, Gothenburg, Sweden

2018   Under the Radar (with Volkan Aslan), ISCP, Brooklyn, NYC

2017   Marking a Shift, (with Maria Andersson), Nordic Art Association, NFK, Stockholm, Sweden

2017   A Community of Lines, Pi Artworks Istanbul, Turkey

2016   Sporting Chances, Pi Artworks London, UK

2014   Incomprehensible World, Istanbul Culture and Art Foundation (IKSV) Hamlet Theater Festival, Istanbul, Turkey

2013   Mirror Mirror on the Wall, Pi Artworks Istanbul, Turkey

2011   How Do We Know We Are Not Impostors? Pi Artworks Istanbul, Turkey

From Here 1970-2011, Pi Artworks Istanbul, Turkey

2009   Holding On, Apartment Project, Istanbul, Turkey

2009 I Believe / I Don't Believe, Pi Artworks Istanbul, Turkey

2009 Obsession, Manzara Perspectives, Istanbul, Turkey

2007   And, Proje 4L Elgiz Contemporary Art Museum, Artvarium, Istanbul, Turkey

2003   People Objects, Istanbul-Rotterdam Cultural Exchange, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

2002   Lives within Lifetimes, International Longevity Center, New York, NY, USA

2000   And, Mary Ogilvie Gallery, St. Anne's College, Oxford University, Oxford, UK
1990   Environmental, MD Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey

 

 

 

Group Exhibitions

 

2023   Maziyi Dokumak (Weaving the Past), Utopia Workshop, Baksı Museum, Bayburt, Turkey

2023 Collective Healing, Metro Han Museum, Istanbul, Turkey

2023 Slowness and Time, Izmir Textile Biennial, Izmir, Turkey

2022 Frontiere dei Lunatici Festival, Adventure Park, Ceroglie, Trieste, İtaly

2022 Mitler ve Hayallar, Elgiz Museum, Istanbul, Turkey

2022 Cultural Threads, Zarastro online exhibition, curated by Haydarcan Taygun.

2022 Normaleş(me), Karşı Sanat Çalışmaları, İstanbul, Turkey

2022 Mitler ve Hayallar, Arkas Art Center, Izmir, Turkey

2022 Lorem Ipsum,  Odeabank Akaretler Sıraevler No. 11, Istanbul, Turkey

2022 The Event of the Thread, MOMus, Experimental Center for the Arts, Thessaloniki, Greece

2022 Don’t Look Back Deep is the Past/Maziye Bakma Mevzu Derin, Odunpazar Modern Museum (OMM), Eskişehir, Turkey

2021 Dönüşüm/Transformation, Taksim Maksim, Istanbul, Turkey.

2021 Terra Incognita, Fişekhane, Istanbul, Turkey

2021 Müdahale/Intervention, The Artisan, İstanbul, Turkey

2021 Geleceği Yemek/Eating the Future, Bat Art Lab, Diyarbakır, Turkey

2021 Music to my eyes, BodrumBodrum Art Gallery, Tikicik Koyu, Yalikavak, Turkey

2021 Adi Sen Koy, Mine Sanat, Istanbul, Turkey

2021 Adı Sen Koy, Senkron, Be.Contemporary, Urla, Turk

2021 Borderless: Digital Practices in Changing Times, Noyes Museum, Pennsylvania

2021 Ubiquity/ Aynı Anda Her Yerde, Akbank Art Center, Istanbul, Turkey

2020   Ruzgar da Akan Atlar (Horses Fluent ın the Wind), Halka Sanat, İstanbul, Turkey

2019    Arcadia Mundi, Macroasilo , Rome, Italy

2019 Weave, Braid, Attach (with Maria Anadersson), Vasteras Konstmuseum, Vasteras, Sweden

2019 Shores, Open Club, Moscow, Russia

2019 Bağlantılar/Connections, Plankton Group, Gündoğdu Gallery, Adana, Turkey

2018   Before the Past - After the Future, 6. Canakkale Biennial, September, Canakkale, Turkey

2018 Birlik II, Antonina Art Gallery, İstanbul, Turkey

2018 Kek sever misiniz? Kadın Eserleri Kütüphanesi, İstanbul, Turkey

2018 At the Borderline of Vitality, Corridor Project Space, Amsterdam, Netherlands

2018 At the borderline of Vitality, Videoist, Hacetepe University Fine Arts Faculty, Adnan 2018 Turani Conference Center, Ankara, Turkey

2018 Printed ’18, Mixer, Istanbul, Turkey

2017 At the borderline of Vitality, Videoist, Corridor Project Space, Amsterdam, Netherlands              

2017 transID, Surp Yerrortutyun Church, Exhibist/Space Debris exhibition, Istanbul, Turkey

2017 AFSAD Symposium Exhibition, Cankaya Municipal Contemporary Art Center, Ankara, Turkey

2017 At the Borderline of Vitality, Credo Bonum Gallery, Videoist, Sofia, Bulgaria

2017 Our Stories, Video art and films from Switzerland, Palestine, Iran, Kazakhstan and Turkey, White Frame, Stadtkino Basel, Treibsand compiler screenings, Basel, Switzerland

2017 Even My Mum Can Make A Book, Corridor Project Space, Amsterdam, Netherlands

2017 Unfold, Arte, Ankara, Turkey

2017 Whose Art History?, Uniq Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey

2017 Return to the Subject, Inonu University, Malata, Turkey

2017 You and I, 5533 Artist Initiative Space, Istanbul, Turkey

2017 A Room of Our Own, Ark Kültür Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey

2017 Letter from Istanbul, Pi Artworks London, UK

2017 Treibsand Online Exhibition Space, Volume #2, Spring – Fall edition, Zurich, Switzerland

2016 Stay with Me, WOW, Hamburg, Germany

2016 Sharing IV, CKM Art Gallery, Okan University, Istanbul, Turkey

2015 Small Faces, Large Sizes, Elgiz Museum of Contemporary Art, Istanbul, Turkey

2015 ODTU Sanat 16, Second Nature, Middle-Eastern Technical University, Ankara, Turkey

2015 Stay with Me, Depo, Istanbul, Turkey

2015 Stay with Me, Wesenburg Museum of Modern Art, University Bremen, Bremen, Germany

2014   Stay with Me, Apartment Project, Berlin, Germany       

2014 40 Videos  From 40 Years of Video Art in Turkey, 25th Ankara International Film Festival, Goethe Institute, Ankara, Turkey

2014 The Feeling of Happiness, Homa Art Gallery Tehran, İran

2014 Moving Image, Art International, Istanbul, Turkey

2014 ODTU Sanat 15, Middle Eastern Technical University, Ankara, Turkey

2013   Video Screening, Berlinerpool, Apartment Project, Berlin, Germany

2013 Between Two Voids, Video Screening Berlinerpool in cooperation with

Apartment Project, Berlin, Germany

2013 Retaining People, Circulating Objects, 5533 Off Space, Istanbul, Turkey

2013 A Protest Against Forgetting, Gallery Art Claims Impulse, Berlin, Germany

2013 Me, Myself and I, Me as a Dilemma, CerModern, Ankara, Turkey

2013 Video Art Made in Istanbul, Art Market Budapest, Hungary

2012  On Landscape, Mine Art Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey

2012 Places of Memory - Fields of Vision, Invisible Cities Festival, Thessaloniki, Greece

2012 Art of Migration, Cezayir Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey

2012 Keeping on Keeping on, Triebsand Exhibition on DVD, Launch at Salt Galata, Istanbul, Turkey

2012 Who Left? What Behind, Ankara Contemporary Art Center, Ankara, Turkey

2012 Trading Stations, Curve Gallery, Parallel to Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, UK

2012 Familiar, SPAS Gallery, Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY, USA

2012 In Several Aspects, Halka Art Project, Istanbul, Turkey

2012 About Woman, Mine Art Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey

2012 Pi @ Q, Q Contemporary, Beirut, Lebanon

2011   Ultramemoir #4, LInstitut Français dIstanbul Et La Galerie Nivet - Carzon, Istanbul, Turkey

2011 Machine Raum, Vejle Art Museum, Vejle, Denmark

2011 The Shadows of the Public, Videoist, Brunswiker Pavillion, Kiel, Germany

2011 Dream and Reality - Modern and Contemporary Women Artists from Turkey, Istanbul 2011 Modern Museum, Istanbul, Turkey

2011 Art Beat Istanbul, Pi Artworks, Istanbul, Turkey

2011 8 Artists - 8 Contemporary, Mine Art Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey

2011 Trade Routes, Pi Artworks Istanbul, Turkey

2011 Where Fire Has Struck, Human Rights Foundation 20th Exhibition, DEPO, Istanbul, Turkey

2011 Once Upon a Time ... Place, Diyarbakir, Turkey

2011 Floating Volumes III, Kunst Nah Gallery, Hamburg, Germany

2011 Random Access Memory, Micamoca Project, Berlin, Germany

2011 Public Ideas, Brunswiker Pavillon, Kiel, Germany

2010 Floating Volumes II, 5533 Off Space, Istanbul, Turkey

2010 Floating Volumes I, Frise, Hamburg, Germany

2010 Ids Please!, CerModern, Ankara, Turkey

2010 Out of Context, Pi Artworks Istanbul, Turkey

2010 Public Ideas, 5533 Off Space, Istanbul, Turkey

2010 Invisible Play, Independent Space in Tophane, Istanbul, Turkey

2010 Invasion Exhibition, Architect’s Center, Istanbul, Turkey

2010 Videoist 10, International Festival of Media Art, Goethe Institute, Ankara, Turkey

2010 The Shadows of the Public, Videoist Video Screening, DEPO, Istanbul, Turkey

2009   Public Ideas, ECOC 2010 / Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Istanbul, Turkey And Kiel, Germany

2009 Under My Feet I Want the World, Istanbul Next Wave, Akademie der Kunste, Berlin, Germany

2009 Projected Visions 35 Years of Turkish Art, Apollonia, Strasbourg, France

2009 Temporary Harassment, Istanbul 2010 Portable Art Project, Kartal Bulent Ecevit Culture Center, Istanbul, Turkey

2009 Antique and Avant-Gard, International Contemporary Art Festival, National Preserve of Tauric Chersonesos, Criema, Sevastopol, Ukraine

2009 Once Upon a Time, 5533 Off Space, Istanbul, Turkey

2009 Once Upon a Time, Istanbul Off-Spaces, Kunstraum Kreuzbert/Bethanien, Berlin, Germany

2009 Forschungsstationen, Kunstverein Langenhagen, Langenhagen, Germany

2009 35 Years of Video Art, Ankara Film Festival, Ankara, Turkey and Bethanien, Germany

2008  Especially Small Things, Cankaya Municipality Contemporary Art Center, Ankara, Turkey

2008 Videoist 2010, Istanbul 2010 Portable Art Project, Istanbul, Turkey

2008 Multiple Connections, Pogmahon Gallery, Vienna, Austria

2008 Memory City, Istanbul 2010 Portable Art Project, Istanbul, Turkey

2008 Multiple Connections, Kent Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey

2008 Dirty Movies, Part of 54th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Oberhausen, Germany

2008 I Believe/I Don't Believe, Galata Perform, Istanbul, Turkey

2008 Centennial Alumni Exhibition, Ridderhof Martin Gallery, Mary Washington College, Fredericksburg, VA, USA

2007 Everything's Going to Be Alright, Apartment Project, Istanbul, Turkey

2007 Interdisciplinary Art Workshop and Exhibition, Nicosia, Cyprus

2007 Bad Luck Show, Marlan Gallery, Lexington, KY, USA

2007 Big Family Business, 10th Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul (parallel event), IMC Shopping Center, Turkey

2007 Border Line, 44th International Troy Festival, Canakkale, Turkey

2007 From the Owner with a View, Independent Art Space, Istanbul, Turkey

2007 Imagining the Book I, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Alexandria, Egypt
2006   LA Freewaves, 10th New Media Art Festival, The Hammer Museum, CA, USA

2006 All About Lies, Apartment Project, Istanbul, Turkey

2006 Coding: Decoding: Exhibition, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, Denmark

2006 Golyazi Project, Outdoor Site-Specific Workshop, Golyazi, Bursa, Turkey

2006 Thinking Garbage, Video Festival: Incheon Contemporary Art Museum, Korea;

2006 International Multimedia Art Festival, Odzaci, Serbia and Montenegro;

River's Edge Film Festival, Kentucky, USA; Video in The Built Environment, University Film and Video Association Conference, CA, USA; V1B3 Summer Curatorial Project, London Study Center, London, UK

2006 Babel, Babble, Rabble, Other Gallery, Telus Studio, Banff Art Centre, Alberta, Canada

2005 Cosmopolis I: 1st Balkan Biennial, Thessaloniki Contemporary Art Museum,

Thessaloniki, Greece

2005 Secret Memories, Select Media IV Festival, Chicago, IL, USA

2005 Life and Blind Destiny, Karsi Art Works, Istanbul, Turkey

2005 Secret Time, Ankara City Contemporary Art and Culture Center, Ankara, Turkey

2005 Thinking Garbage, (Project with Ipek Duben), 9th Istanbul International Biennial (Beyond: Simultaneous Project), Turkey

2005 Rio De Janeiro Electronic Media Festival, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil

2005 Obsession, Gallery X, Istanbul, Turkey

2005 Honoring The Book, First International Biennial for The Artist's Book, The Borowsky Gallery, PA, USA

2005 Identityscapes, Cologne On-Line Film Festival, Cologne, Germany

2005 Free/Neutral Zone, Roxy Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey

2005 ABA, Mersin University, Mersin, Turkey

2005 Artist ... Work, Istanbul Modern Art Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey

2005 Tele-Kent, Siemens Nomad Collection, Istanbul, Turkey

2004  The Shaman Diary, Proje 4L, Elgiz Contemporary Art Museum, Istanbul, Turkey

2004 Change/Tradition, Ifsak 20th Istanbul Photography Days, Istanbul, Turkey

2004 First International Artist Book Biennial, Bibliotheca Alexandrina Art Center, Alexandria, Egypt

2004 D-Art 2004, Virtual Digital Art Gallery, London, UK and Penang, Malaysia

2004 Turkish Delight, Rio Modern Art Museum, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil 

2004 European Cultural Days: A Bridge from West to East, BBK, Karlsruhe, Germany

2003  8th Havana Biennale, Havana, Cuba

2003 International Tunel Art Festival, Italian Cultural Center, Istanbul, Turkey

2003 Art at Akmerkez, Akmerkez Shopping Center, Istanbul, Turkey

2003 Good+Bad+Ugly, 3rd Performance Days, Istanbul Bilgi University, Istanbul, Turkey

2003 7th International Video Festival Video Medeja, Novi Sad, Serbia

2003 Families Only, Karsi Art Works, Istanbul, Turkey

Storm, pixel motion art, underpass pier 7 and 8 of the Esplanade Bridge, Singapore

2002 IV International Digital Art Exhibition, Pablo De La Torriente Brau Cultural Center, Havana, Cuba

2002 6th International Video Festival Video Medeja, Novi Sad, Yugoslavia

2002 Artist Respond to War, Athens Institute for Contemporary Art, Athens, GA, USA

2002 Look Again, Proje 4L, Elgiz Contemporary Art Museum, Istanbul, Turkey

2001 Re-Duchamp, Traveling Exhibition, 7th Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey

2001 Voices from The Homeland, Karşı Art Works, Istanbul, Turkey

2000 Young Art III, Ankara Contemporary Art Center, Ankara, Turkey

2000 Local Products, Elhamra Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey

1999 Between '99, Resmi Görüş Güncel Sanat Seçkisi, Istanbul, Turkey

1999 International Women's Art Festival, Shebani Building, Aleppo, Syria

1999 Between '99, Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey

1998 Project/Work, Marmara University, Istanbul, Turkey

1998 Back to Back, Arnavutkoy Studio, Istanbul, Turkey

1998 Artagora, Bilgi University and Dolmabahce Cultural Center Via Internet, Istanbul,

Turkey

1997 Between, Ataturk Cultural Centre, Istanbul, Turkey

1996 Logos (Aphasia) Semeion (Asemasia)-(Non) Signification (Non)Comm/Uni/Cati/On, Aynali Passage, Istanbul, Turkey

1995 Work, Sanart, Ankara, Turkey

1994 Work, STT, The Art Definition Group, Faruk Ilgaz Center, Istanbul, Turkey

 

Residencies

2017 Nordic Art Association, NFK, (supported by IASPIS), Stockholm, Sweden

2006 Banff Art Center, Alberta, Canada

 

Education

1995  PhD, History of Art, Mimar Sinan University, Istanbul, Turkey

1982  MA, Educational Psychology, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey

1968 BA, Fine Arts and History of Art, Mary Washington College, Virginia, USA