Nancy Atakan
1946 Lives and works in Istanbul, Turkey since 1969
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
Solo Exhibitions
2023 State of Acceptance, (with Kalliopi Lemos), Gazelli Art House, Baku, Azerbaijan
2023 Unlock, Beymen Zorlu Center, İstanbul, Turkey
2023 The Scent of Time, Pi Artworks, İstanbul, Turkey.
2020 Remembering the Future, Vortic Collect, online exhibition, London.
2020 It still is as it always was, (with Kalliopi Lemos), Pi Artworks London, UK.
2020 Translation in Motion, (with Maria Andersson), Stockholm, Sweden
2019 Forward, March, (with Maria Andersson), Salt Beyoğlu, Istanbul
2019 Marking a Shift, (with Maria Anderssson) 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 Theatre 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
I Believe / I Don’t Believe, Pi Artworks Istanbul, Turkey
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
Collective Healing, Metro Han Museum, Istanbul, Turkey
Slowness and Time, Izmir Textile Biennial, Izmir, Turkey
2022 Frontiere dei Lunatici Festival, Adventure Park, Ceroglie, Trieste, İtaly
Mitler ve Hayallar, Elgiz Museum, Istanbul.
Cultural Threads, Zarastro online exhibition, curated by Haydarcan Taygun.
Normaleş(me), Karşı Sanat Çalışmaları, İstanbul, Turkey
Mitler ve Hayallar, Arkas Art Center, Izmir, Turkey
Lorem Ipsum, Odeabank Akaretler Sıraevler No. 11, Istanbul, Turkey
The Event of the Thread, MOMus, Experimental Center for the Arts, Thessaloniki, Greece
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.
Terra Incognita, Fişekhane, Istanbul, Turkey.
Müdahale/Intervention, The Artisan, İstanbul, Turkey.
Geleceği Yemek/Eating the Future, Bat Art Lab, Diyarbakır, Turkey.
Music to my eyes, BodrumBodrum Art Gallery, Tikicik Koyu, Yalikavak, Turkey.
Adi Sen Koy, Mine Sanat, Istanbul, Turkey.
Adı Sen Koy, Senkron, Be.Contemporary, Urla, Turkey.
Borderless: Digital Practices in Changing Times, Noyes Museum, Pennsylvania.
Ubiquity/ Aynı Anda Her Yerde, Akbank Art Center, Istanbul.
2020 Horses Fluent in the Wind or Flying from the Nest, Halka Art Project, Istanbul, Turkey
2019 Arcadia Mundi, Macroasilo , Rome, Italy
Weave, Braid, Attach (with Maria Anadersson), Vasteras Konstmuseum, Vasteras, Sweden
Shores, Open Club, Moscow, Russia
Bağlantılar/Connections, Plankton Group, Gündoğdu Gallery, Adana, Turkey
2018 Before the Past – After the Future, 6. Canakkale Biennial, September, Canakkale, Turkey
Birlik II, Antonina Art Gallery, İstanbul, Turkey
Kek sever misiniz? Kadın Eserleri Kütüphanesi, İstanbul, Turkey
At the Borderline of Vitality, Corridor Project Space, Amsterdam, Netherlands
At the borderline of Vitality, Videoist, Hacetepe University Fine Arts Faculty, Adnan Turani Conference Center, Ankara, Turkey
Printed ’18, Mixer, Istanbul, Turkey
2017 At the borderline of Vitality, Videoist, Corridor Project Space, Amsterdam, Netherlands
transID, Surp Yerrortutyun Church, Exhibist/Space Debris exhibition, Istanbul, Turkey
AFSAD Symposium Exhibition, Cankaya Municipal Contemporary Art Center, Ankara, Turkey
At the Borderline of Vitality, Credo Bonum Gallery, Videoist, Sofia, Bulgaria
Our Stories, Video art and films from Switzerland, Palestine, Iran, Kazakhstan and Turkey, White Frame, Stadtkino Basel, Treibsand compiler screenings, Basel, Switzerland
Even My Mum Can Make A Book, Corridor Project Space, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Unfold, Arte, Ankara, Turkey
Whose Art History?, Uniq Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey
Return to the Subject, Inonu University, Malata, Turkey
You and I, 5533 Artist Initiative Space, Istanbul,Turkey
A Room of Our Own, Ark Kültür Gallery , Istanbul, Turkey
Letter from Istanbul, Pi Artworks London, UK
Treibsand Online Exhibition Space, Volume #2, Spring – Fall edition, Zurich, Switzerland
2016 Stay with Me, WOW, Hamburg, Germany
Sharing IV, CKM Art Gallery, Okan University, Istanbul, Turkey
2015 Small Faces, Large Sizes, Elgiz Museum of Contemporary Art, Istanbul, Turkey
ODTU Sanat 16, Second Nature, Middle-Eastern Technical University, Ankara, Turkey
Stay with Me, Depo, Istanbul, Turkey
Stay with Me, Wesenburg Museum of Modern Art, University Bremen, Bremen, Germany
2014 Stay with Me, Apartment Project, Berlin, Germany
40 Videos From 40 Years of Video Art in Turkey, 25th Ankara International Film Festival, Goethe Institute, Ankara, Turkey
The Feeling of Happiness, Homa Art Gallery Tehran, İran
Moving Image, Art International, Istanbul, Turkey
ODTU Sanat 15, Middle Eastern Technical University, Ankara, Turkey
2013 Video Screening, Berlinerpool, Apartment Project, Berlin, Germany
Between Two Voids, Video Screening Berlinerpool in cooperation with
Apartment Project, Berlin, Germany
Retaining People, Circulating Objects, 5533 Off Space, Istanbul, Turkey
A Protest Against Forgetting, Gallery Art Claims Impulse, Berlin, Germany
Me, Myself and I, Me as a Dilemma, CerModern, Ankara, Turkey
Video Art Made in Istanbul, Art Market Budapest, Hungary
2012 On Landscape, Mine Art Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey
Places of Memory – Fields of Vision, Invisible Cities Festival, Thessaloniki, Greece
Art of Migration, Cezayir Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey
Keeping on Keeping on, Triebsand Exhibition on DVD, Launch at Salt Galata, Istanbul, Turkey
Who Left? What Behind, Ankara Contemporary Art Center, Ankara, Turkey
Trading Stations, Curve Gallery, Parallel to Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, UK
Familiar, SPAS Gallery, Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY, USA
In Several Aspects, Halka Art Project, Istanbul, Turkey
About Woman, Mine Art Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey
Pi @ Q, Q Contemporary, Beirut, Lebanon
2011 Ultramemoir #4, L’Institut Français d’Istanbul Et La Galerie Nivet – Carzon, Istanbul, Turkey
Machine Raum, Vejle Art Museum, Vejle, Denmark
The Shadows of the Public, Videoist, Brunswiker Pavillion, Kiel, Germany
Dream and Reality – Modern and Contemporary Women Artists from Turkey, Istanbul Modern Museum, Istanbul, Turkey
Art Beat Istanbul, Pi Artworks, Istanbul, Turkey
8 Artists – 8 Contemporary, Mine Art Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey
Trade Routes, Pi Artworks Istanbul, Turkey
Where Fire Has Struck, Human Rights Foundation 20th Exhibition, DEPO, Istanbul, Turkey
Once Upon a Time … Place, Diyarbakir, Turkey
Floating Volumes III, Kunst Nah Gallery, Hamburg, Germany
Random Access Memory, Micamoca Project, Berlin, Germany
Public Ideas, Brunswiker Pavillon, Kiel, Germany
2010 Floating Volumes II, 5533 Off Space, Istanbul, Turkey
Floating Volumes I, Frise, Hamburg, Germany
Ids Please!, CerModern, Ankara, Turkey
Out of Context, Pi Artworks Istanbul, Turkey
Public Ideas, 5533 Off Space, Istanbul, Turkey
Invisible Play, Independent Space in Tophane, Istanbul, Turkey
Invasion Exhibition, Architect’s Center, Istanbul, Turkey
Videoist 10, International Festival of Media Art, Goethe Institute, Ankara, Turkey
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
Under My Feet I Want the World, Istanbul Next Wave, Akademie der Kunste, Berlin, Germany
Projected Visions 35 Years of Turkish Art, Apollonia, Strasbourg, France
Temporary Harassment, Istanbul 2010 Portable Art Project, Kartal Bulent Ecevit Culture Center, Istanbul, Turkey
Antique and Avant-Gard, International Contemporary Art Festival, National Preserve of Tauric Chersonesos, Criema, Sevastopol, Ukraine
Once Upon a Time, 5533 Off Space, Istanbul, Turkey
Once Upon a Time, Istanbul Off-Spaces, Kunstraum Kreuzbert/Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
Forschungsstationen, Kunstverein Langenhagen, Langenhagen, Germany
35 Years of Video Art, Ankara Film Festival, Ankara, Turkey and Bethanien, Germany
2008 Especially Small Things, Cankaya Municipality Contemporary Art Center, Ankara, Turkey
Videoist 2010, Istanbul 2010 Portable Art Project, Istanbul, Turkey
Multiple Connections, Pogmahon Gallery, Vienna, Austria
Memory City, Istanbul 2010 Portable Art Project, Istanbul, Turkey
Multiple Connections, Kent Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey
Dirty Movies, Part of 54th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Oberhausen, Germany
I Believe/I Don’t Believe, Galata Perform, Istanbul, Turkey
Centennial Alumni Exhibition, Ridderhof Martin Gallery, Mary Washington College, Fredericksburg, VA, USA
2007 Everything’s Going to Be Alright, Apartment Project, Istanbul, Turkey
Interdisciplinary Art Workshop and Exhibition, Nicosia, Cyprus
Bad Luck Show, Marlan Gallery, Lexington, KY, USA
Big Family Business, 10th Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul (parallel event), IMC Shopping Center, Turkey
Border Line, 44th International Troy Festival, Canakkale, Turkey
From the Owner with a View, Independent Art Space, Istanbul, Turkey
Imagining the Book I, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Alexandria, Egypt
2006 LA Freewaves, 10th New Media Art Festival, The Hammer Museum, CA, USA
All About Lies, Apartment Project, Istanbul, Turkey
Coding: Decoding: Exhibition, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, Denmark
Golyazi Project, Outdoor Site-Specific Workshop, Golyazi, Bursa, Turkey
Thinking Garbage, Video Festival: Incheon Contemporary Art Museum, Korea;
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
Babel, Babble, Rabble, Other Gallery, Telus Studio, Banff Art Centre, Alberta, Canada
2005 Cosmopolis I: 1st Balkan Biennial, Thessaloniki Contemporary Art Museum, Thessaloniki, Greece
Secret Memories, Select Media IV Festival, Chicago, IL, USA
Life and Blind Destiny, Karsi Art Works, Istanbul, Turkey
Secret Time, Ankara City Contemporary Art and Culture Center, Ankara, Turkey
Thinking Garbage, (Project with Ipek Duben), 9th Istanbul International Biennial (Beyond: Simultaneous Project), Turkey
Rio De Janeiro Electronic Media Festival, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
Obsession, Gallery X, Istanbul, Turkey
Honoring The Book, First International Biennial for The Artist’s Book, The Borowsky Gallery, PA, USA
Identityscapes, Cologne On-Line Film Festival, Cologne, Germany
Free/Neutral Zone, Roxy Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey
ABA, Mersin University, Mersin, Turkey
Artist … Work, Istanbul Modern Art Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey
Tele-Kent, Siemens Nomad Collection, Istanbul, Turkey
2004 The Shaman Diary, Proje 4L, Elgiz Contemporary Art Museum, Istanbul, Turkey
Change/Tradition, Ifsak 20th Istanbul Photography Days, Istanbul, Turkey
First International Artist Book Biennial, Bibliotheca Alexandrina Art Center, Alexandria, Egypt
D-Art 2004, Virtual Digital Art Gallery, London, UK and Penang, Malaysia
Turkish Delight, Rio Modern Art Museum, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
European Cultural Days: A Bridge from West to East, BBK, Karlsruhe, Germany
2003 8th Havana Biennale, Havana, Cuba
International Tunel Art Festival, Italian Cultural Center, Istanbul, Turkey
Art at Akmerkez, Akmerkez Shopping Center, Istanbul, Turkey
Good+Bad+Ugly, 3rd Performance Days, Istanbul Bilgi University, Istanbul, Turkey
7th International Video Festival Video Medeja, Novi Sad, Serbia
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 Exhibiton, Pablo De La Torriente Brau Cultural Center, Havana, Cuba
6th International Video Festival Video Medeja, Novi Sad, Yugoslavia
Artist Respond to War, Athens Institute for Contemporary Art, Athens, GA, USA
Look Again, Proje 4L, Elgiz Contemporary Art Museum, Istanbul, Turkey
2001 Re-Duchamp, Traveling Exhibition, 7th Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey
Voices from The Homeland, Karşı Art Works, Istanbul, Turkey
2000 Young Art III, Ankara Contemporary Art Center, Ankara, Turkey
Local Products, Elhamra Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey
1999 Between ’99, Resmi Görüş Güncel Sanat Seçkisi, Istanbul, Turkey
International Women’s Art Festival, Shebani Building, Aleppo, Syria
Between ’99, Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey
1998 Project/Work, Marmara University, Istanbul, Turkey
Back to Back, Arnavutkoy Studio, Istanbul, Turkey
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
Curatorial Work
2008 Co-Founder of 5533 Off-Space, Istanbul, Turkey
Artist Books
2008 Sanatta Alternatif Arayislar (Searching for Alternatives in Art), Karakalem Kitabevi publications, Izmir, Turkey
1998 Arayışlar (Searching for Alternatives to Painting and Sculpture), Yapı Kredi publications, Istanbul, Turkey