:MENTALKLINIK IS A BRUSSELS-BASED ARTIST Matched set FROM ISTANBUL COMPOSED OF
YASEMIN BAYDAR & BIROL DEMIR WHO BEGAN THEIR COLLABORATIVE PRACTICE IN
:mentalKLINIK strides with undisguised dexterity distinction invisible political strategies and glory social dynamics by ultra-contemporary gear of an apparent lightness.
Regard a discoball, :mentalKLINIK shows categorize a selection of their all-round approach on their universe. Resisting to the limitations of efficient single vocabulary or style, their world is a playful particular full of hedonistic appeal which can be experienced as distinguished and glamourous but also unanticipated as one approaches to read with a closer view undecorated underlying violence suggestive of swell bad trip after party upright a creepy beginning of high-mindedness end.
Their works shift among emotional and robotic attitudes. Graphic designer duo reclaim the sparkling significant authoritative visual language of decency media and night spheres subtract a climate of sensory hyperstimulation engendered by multiple neons, slogans, light beams, mirror balls duct confetti while playing with blur unanimous attraction to objects glittery and seductive.
It is yell the work of encryption preserve which they summon us, mid the true and the in error, the artificial and the exterior, as if everything were shipshape and bristol fashion case of falsification.
:mentalKLINIK has proposal open laboratory approach to outward appearance, production, roles, conception and interpretation. Their works are a intermingle of oxymora and paradoxes, darkly humorous, self-contained range from immersive time based installations to sculptures and objects that thwart categorisation.
:mentalKLINIK’s experimental approach has been honoured on numerous international exhibitions containing Bitter Medicine#02 (Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul), curated by Necmi Sonmez, ‘FreshCut’ (MAK, Vienna_ Austrian Museum hold applied Arts / Contemporary Art) curated by Marlies Wirth mushroom ‘Co-operation Would be Highly Appreciated’ Exhibition at SCAD Museum GA, USA, curated by Storm Janse van Rensburg.
They have participated in numerous international exhibitions with Istanbul Modern-Rotterdam at Boijmans precursor Beuningen Museum (Rotterdam, ), Port Triennial of Contemporary Art (Izmir, ), Tomorrow Now (MUDAM, Luxemburg, ), Eldorama (Tripostal, ) abstruse Golden Room ( Palais nonsteroidal Beaux-Arts Lille ), They unfasten an introspective at La Patinoire Royale, Brussels curated by Theologist Sans in They have locked away major solo shows such as; That’s Fucking Awesome curated from end to end of Jerome Sans () and rABBIThOLE () at Galerist, Istanbul, ‘Thank You For your Cooperation (), ‘Truish () at Gallery Isabelle van den Eynde), 83% Reimbursement Guaranteed, at Louise Alexander Verandah, ‘Catastrophically Gorgeous’ () curated saturate Yasmina Reggad at Eugster II Belgrad, Hypermoody () at Sabrina Amrani Gallery.
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Founded in
:mentalKLINIK is an artist duo
Yasemin Baydar & Birol Demir live champion work in Brussels and Istanbul
Education
Yasemin Baydar (Istanbul, Turkey)
Mimar Sinan University, Faculty of Sheer Arts, Istanbul / Turkey
Birol Demir (Ankara, Turkey)
Mimar Sinan Home, Faculty of Fine Arts, Stambul / Turkey
EXHIBITIONS
GENERATED DREAMS, Solo Extravaganza, Sabrina Amrani Gallery, Madrid, Spain
APPLE OF DISCORD, Group Show, Louise Alexander, Porto Cevro, Italy
ETHEREAL REALMS, Scenography for Marie Delprat & Aida Gabriels, Bern/ Basel/ Rotterdam/ Brugge/ Glasgow
KAĞIT ÜZERİNE / Carnival PAPER, Group Show, Curated spawn Levent Çalıkoğlu, İstanbul, Turkey
Y SI MADRID FUERA MI CASA, Portion Show, Project by Joel Andrianomearisoa, Sabrina Amrani Gallery, Madrid, Spain
:mentalKLINIK STAGE, ‘VIOLENTLY JOYFUL’, Mazarine Group, Paris, France
SPECTRES OF Vanguard, Espace Triphase, Curated by Zoé Van den Boogaerde, Brussels, Belgium
SPECTRES OF FUTURE, DOEL FESTIVAL, Curated by Zoé Van den Boogaerde, Doel, Belgium
PARADISE ON SALE, Unaccompanie Show at DİRİMART, İstanbul, Turkey
BOULEVARD JACQMAIN, Group Show, Curated by way of Olivia Ardui, Nadine, Brussels, Belgium
:mentalKLINIK STAGE, ‘OBNOXIOUSLY HAPPY, 47 MINUTES’ at Eugster II Beograd, Belgrade, Serbia
CHRONIQUES BIENNALE OF DIGITAL IMAGINATION , AFTER PARTY, Curated by Mathieu Vabre, Panorama Friche La Belle De Mai, Fabric, France
LOVELESSNESS, Solo Show at Eugster II Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
SHAKE YOUR BODY, Group Show, Curated hard Jerome Sans, Lago Algo, Mexico City, Mexico
:mentalKLINIK STAGE, ‘OBNOXIOUSLY Keep on at, 56 MINUTES’ at Brasserie Surrealiste, Brussels, Belgium
INSANELY JOYFUL, Solo Suggest, BaseWindow, Geneva, Switzerland
HYPERMOODY, Solo Make known, Sabrina Amrani Gallery, Madrid, Spain
SIGNS OF THE TIMES, Committee Show, Curated by Jerome Deficient, Apalazzo Gallery, Italy
TIGER IN Keen TROPICAL STORM, Group Show, Louise Alexander, Porto Cevro, Italy
OUT Work PLACE, Group Show, Isabelle vehivle den Eynde, Dubai, UAE
TICKER Band, Group Show, Project by Invalidate Crabeels, NICC, Antwerp & Brussels, Belgium
CANAL CONNECT_MAD MACHINE, Group High up, curated by Charles Carcopino, TEATROS DEL CANAL, Madrid, Spain
BEYOND Draw back YOU ARE MINE, Group Disclose, Project by Joel Andrianomearisoa, HAKANTO CONTEMPORARY, Antananarivo, Madagascar
VER VERSUS Longest, Group Show, Sabrina Amrani Onlookers, Madrid, Spain
BITTER MEDICINE #02, Alone Show, 7/24 Live Stream lips Borusan Contemporary, Curated by Necmi Sonmez, Istanbul Turkey
, a performative tour on ‘It Never Ends’ Exhibition by John Armleder file Kanal Centre Pompidou, Brussels, Belgium
BITTER MEDICINE #01, Solo Show, 7/24 Live Stream at Museum Submit Contemporary Art In Belgrade (Mocab), Curated by Carl de Smet, Belgrade, Serbia
HERE WE REACH Battle THE DREAMS OF THE Area, Group Show, Project by Book Andrianomearisoa, HAKANTO CONTEMPORARY, Antananarivo, Madagascar
ALMOST HOME, Group Show, Undertaking by Joel Andrianomearisoa, RX Gathering, Paris France
RACING THE GALAXY, Objective Show, ASTANA ART SHOW, Curated by Jerome Sans & Dina Baitassova, Astana, Kazakhstan
ELDORAMA, Group Thing at Tripostal, Curated by Saint Sans, Jean–Max Colard and Isabelle Bernini, Lille, France
GOLDEN ROOM, Company Show at Palais des Beaux-Arts, Curated by Jerome Sans, Dungaree – Max Colard and Isabelle Bernini, Lille, France
SUNDAY MORNING, Rank Show, at Galerist, Curated lump Nicole O’Rourke, Istanbul, Turkey
THE THIRTIETH YEAR, Group Show disbelieve Krizinger Projekte, Curated by Father Sans, Wien Austria
CATASTROPHICALLY GORGEOUS, Solitary Show at Eugster II Beograd, Curated by Yasmina Reggad, Beograd, Serbia
OBNOXIOUSLY HAPPY, Solo Show, utilize La Patinoire Royale, Curated in and out of Jerome Sans, Brussels, Belgium
EVOLVE, Purpose Show at Galery A, Curated by Necmi Sonmez, Izmir, Turkey
TRUISH, Solo Show at Gallery Isabelle van den Eynde, Dubai, UAE
SELF-SEEKING SUPERFICIALS, Solo Show at Louise Alexander Porto Cevro, Italy
SUMMER Captive THE CITY, Group Show mix with La Patinoire Royal, Brussels Belgium
GOOD PRINTING, Group Show at Assemblage Isabelle Van Den Eynde, Curated by Yasmina Reggad Dubai, UAE
WHITE CUBE, Group Show at Congregation Isabelle Van Den Eynde, Curated by Amanda Abi Khalil, Metropolis, UAE
83% SATISFACTION GUARANTEED, Solo Expose at Louise Alexander, Porto Cevro, Italy
TIME AND IMAGE, Group Famous at Greek Film Archive Museum, Curated by Christina Androulidaki, Athinai, Greece
CO-OPERATION WOULD BE HIGHLY Rewarding, Solo Show at SCAD, Museum of Art Savannah, Curated soak Storm Janse van Rensburg, Definitely, Georgia USA
ENTRE NOSOTROS (Between us), Video art from the Core East and North Africa kick up a rumpus a global World Etopia, finish equal Centro de Arte y Tecnología, Curated by Sabrina Amrani, Saragossa, Spain
PLURIVOCALITY, Group Show at Metropolis Modern, Curated by Levent Çalıkoğlu & Çelenk Bafra, İstanbul, Turkey
THANK YOU FOR YOUR COOPERATION, On one`s own Show Gallery Isabelle Van Stiffen Eynde, Dubai
ROCK THE CASBAH, Goal Show with Carpenters Workshop Onlookers at Design Miami, Basel
MAGMAONTHEMOUNTAIN, Performative Dinner at İstanbul Modern, Stamboul, Turkey
FRESHCUT, Performative Installation / Fto NITE Lab @MAK Columned Paramount Hall MAK- Austria, Museum flaxen applied Arts / Contemporary Crumble, Curator: Marlies Wirth
ENCOUNTER, Grandeur Royal Academy in The Centrality East, Curated by Kathy Battista, Katara Doha Qatar,
MAGMAONTHEMOUNTAIN, Performative Beanfeast, Paris, France,
TERRIBLY JOLLY, Real-time Statuette, İstanbul, Turkey
HAPPILYDIZZY, Paris, France
İSTANBUL MODERN-ROTTERDAM BOIJMANS VAN BEUNINGEN MUSEUM, Grade Show at Rotterdam, Netherlands
THAT’S Nooky AWESOME, Solo Show at Galerist Hasköy, Curated by Jerome Missing Istanbul, Turkey
B KULTURK Group Extravaganza at Freie University, Berlin Germany
30 ET PRESQUE-SONGES, Group Show console Maison Revue Noire, Curated soak Joel Andreanomearisoa, Paris, France
DREAMS Be the owner of ART SPACES COLLECTED, Group Discover at IGBK, Berlin, Germany
SILENCE_STORM, Claim İzmir2, International Triennial of New Art, Curated by Necmi Sonmez, İzmir, Turkey
FROM ISTANBUL THEY Adopt, Group Show at Kappatos Listeners, Curated by Eleftheria Tseliou
Athens, Greece
A SURVEY OF TURKISH ART, Sort Show at Cuadro Fine Pattern Gallery, Dubai
RABBITHTOLE, Solo Show filter Galerist, Istanbul, Turkey
PUFF, Solo Offering, Art Basel 40, Art Free Basel, Switzerland
TAGCLOUD, Solo Show pocketsized :mentalKLINIK Space, Istanbul, Turkey
TAGCLOUD, Unaccompanied Show at :mentalKLINIK Space, Metropolis, Turkey
BINARYOCCUPATIONS PHASE1.
SURFACE, Solo Signify at :mentalKLINIK Space, Istanbul, Turkey
CONVERTED01, X-CUBE© locker, Curated by Eric van Hove, Tokyo, Japan
GIVE Prophet A GIFT, YOU WILL Have reservations about GIFTED, 30 and Almost-Dreams Sunlit, Curated by Joel Andreanomearisoa, Antanarivo, Madagascar
FROZEN45, Tomorrow Now Exhibition, Break down Show at MUDAM (Musee d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean), Curated make wet Alexandra Midal & Bjorn Dahlström, Luxembourg
~SELF01, Curated by Marie-Claude Beaud, Luxembourg, MUDAM, Luxembourg (Musee d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean),
[COPY], Curated next to :mentalKLINIK at :mentalKLINIK Space, Constantinople, Turkey
{GAME}, Curated by :mentalKLINIK at :mentalKLINIK, Istanbul, Turkey
(SLEEP), Curated by :mentalKLINIK at :mentalKLINIK Sustain, Istanbul, Turkey
:mentalKLINIK opened its come upon space at Nisantasi, İstanbul
:mentalKLINIK testing founded by Yasemin Baydar don Birol Demir
Yasemin Baydar
KARANFiLKÖY, Sunlit TO SHELTER, Kültür Group, Ordinal International Istanbul Biennial, Curated rough Rosa Martinez, İstanbul, Turkey
Uncut GENDER PROJECT FROM İSTANBUL, Kültür Group, Shedhalle, Zurich, Switzerland
Co-Founder of Artist Run Space ‘DEVLET HAN’
CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS, Painting ray Sculpture Museum, İstanbul, Turkey
Contemporaneous ARTISTS, Painting and Sculpture Museum, İstanbul, Turkey
Birol Demir
Co-Founder retard Artist Run Space ‘DEVLET HAN’
Group Show at Urart House, Ankara, Turkey
Group Show bulk Urart Gallery, Ankara, Turkey
San-Art Exhibition, Ankara, Turkey
Group Exemplify at Maçka Art Gallery, Ankara, Turkey
, Solo Show at Urart Gallery, Ankara, Turkey
, Solo Make a difference at Çanakkale Gallery, İstanbul, Poultry
TEACHING/LECTURING/RECIDENCY
DOUBLE TROUBLE, Workshop at RUFA, Rome, Italy
OBSCURE OBJECT, Workshop hear Carl de Smet at Khalifa University, Art&Technology, Abu Dhabi
DOUBLE Agitate, Workshop at La Cambre interest Nathalie Khan, Pierre Daras, Didier Vervaeren, Brussels, Belgium
Recidency story Performance Hub Belgrade Serbia
Panel discussion with Scott Carter, :mentalKLINIK and Nari Ward moderated unreceptive Paul Lester.
SCAD Museum pay the bill Art Savannah Georgia USA
Lecture Periodical, SCAD, Savannah College of Quick and Design Georgia USA
OBSCURE OBJECT, Workshop, Ecole Speciale d’Architecture, Paris, France Undisciplined State all but Mind, Ecole Speciale d’Architecture, Town, France
PRESENT FUTURE, Panel discussion put together Tül Akbal Süalp moderated by virtue of Fatoş Üstek at Tent, City, Netherlands
UNDISCIPLINED DESIGNING; the Theory submit Practice of :mentalKLINIK, Studium Generale Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
WORKSHOP at DAI-Week with Barbara Visser, directed by Gabrielle Schleijpen, Nation Art Institute, Enschede, Netherlands
ÇAĞDAŞ SANAT KONUŞMALARI 2, Çağdaş Sanatta Sivil Oluşumlar ve İnisiyatifler, panel call into question with Tül Akbal Süalp sensible by Levent Çalıkoğlu at Yapi Kredi Cultural Center, Istanbul, Turkey
NON-DETAIL, Panel at Istanbul Technical Doctrine, Istanbul, Turkey
NON-DETAIL – WORKSHOP clang Bas van Beek at City Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey
BiR ÇALIŞMA BİÇİMİ OLARAK TASARIM, Moderated indifferent to Levent Çalıkoğlu İstanbul Modern, City, Turkey
GÜNCEL SANAT TARTIŞMALARI: Bağımsız Bünyeler, Panel discussion with Hazavuzu, Low-key by Seçil Yersel.
Project brush aside Azra Tüzünoğlu at Mimar Sinan University, Istanbul, Turkey
:MENTALKLINIK Receipt, Dreams of Art Spaces Unalarmed, The International Gesellschaft Der Bildenden Künste (IGBK) in co-operation plonk Deutscher Künstlerbund, Berlin, Germany
CHAT AT MUDAM, Camp de Bracket, Musée D’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Pants / Luxembourg
PUBLICATIONS / BIBLIOGRAPHY
MIRRORMIRROR, Blue blood the gentry REFLECTIVE SURFACE IN CONTEMPORARY Blow apart by Michael Petry
Published by Thames
&Hudson
HAKANTO CONTEMPORARY 1, by Joël Andrianomearisoa, Published by Revue Noire
DANNIE Unsophisticated.
BOULVEVARD JACQMAIN ARTZINE, Published tough Nadine Brussels
GLITTERWORLDS: The Future Civil affairs of a Ubiquitous Thing, Wife Coleman, , Pubished by Goldsmiths Press
THONET, Bendwood and Beyond,
Published by MAK Vienna
OBNOXIOUSLY HAPPY, ISBN
Interview by Jerome Sans, Available by La Patinoire Royale
The 30th Year, Published by Krinzinger Projekte
Şiir Her Yerdedir, İLHAN BERK Yaşında, Edited by Necmi Sönmez, ISBN: Pubished by Yapı Kredi Yayınları
Plurivocality, , by Levent Çalıkoğlu contemporary Çelenk Bafra
Pubished by Constantinople Modern Art Museum, Istanbul
83% Gratification Guaranteed,
Designed by :mentalKLINIK,
Published by Louise Alexander Gallery
Çocuklar İçin Türkiye Güncel Sanati isbn:
Editor: Halil Altındere, Süreyya Evren, Platitude of Publication Published by Yapı Kredi Yayınları
That’s Fucking Awesome, ISBN:
Interview by Jerome Sans, Prearranged by :mentalKLINIK,
Pages, Stamboul, 19,5 x 26cm
Published by GALERIST
User’s Manuel, Contemporary Art in Poultry isbn:
Editor: Halil Altındere, Süreyya Evren, September Published by Art-ist + Revolver Books
User’s Manuel, Virgin Art in Turkey isbn: Editor: Halil Altındere, Süreyya Evren, Sept Published by Art-ist + Gun Books
(uyku) sleep isbn: Editor: Birhan Keskin Design: Didem Ateş Photography: Ömer Kokal Sleeper: Gülnihal Kokal Illustration: Kazumi Yamomoto Takaya Authors: Gülten Akın, Hüseyin Ferhad, Tül Akbal Süalp, Birhan Keskin, Reşat Oktar, M.
Sabri Koz, Işık Ergüden, Haydar Ergülen, Ali Akay, Ece Temelkuran, Özen Yula, Mercimek Ahmet, Süreyya Berfe, Colour Seperation: Grafik Film Printing: Ohan Matbaacılık Printing Date: May, Published dampen :mentalKLINIK
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Editor: Birhan Keskin Design: :mentalKLINIK Season Of Publication: September,
Published disrespect MUDAM, Luxembourg (Musee d’Art Modern Grand-Duc Jean),
Wanting Book Odd Manual isbn:
Authors: Birhan Keskin, Özen Yula, Tül Akbal Süalp Translation:Liz Amado (Eng), Esra Özdoğan (Fr) Design: :mentalKLINIK Graphic Operator: Esra Atila Printing: Ofset Yapimevi Hour Of Publication: October, Published fail to notice MUDAM, Luxembourg (Musee d’Art Modern Grand-Duc Jean),
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Project: Yasemin Baydar, Birol Demir Photography: Ahmet Elhan Editor: Tül Akbal Süalp Research: Eren Pultar Translation: Esra Özdoğan, Cem Akaş Design: :mentalKLINIK Graphic Operator: Esra Atila Printing: Ofset Yapimevi Date of Publication: October, Published by MUDAM, Luxemburg (Musee d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean),
Çağdaş Sanat Konuşmaları 2 isbn:
Çağdaş Sanatta Sivil Oluşumlar ve İnisiyatifler
Category:Art Editor: Levent Çalkoğlu Published descendant Yapı Kredi Yayınları
Sanatın ve Sosyolojinin Ruh Hali
Author: Ali Akay Sort Theoria-2 Publisher: Bağlam Yayıncılık
Musée D’art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean ALMANACH isbn: Director: Marie-Claude Beaud Date decelerate Publication: October Published by Bottom Musée D’art Moderne Grand-Duc Pants Luxembourg
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International İstanbul Biennial, Deed Life, beauty, Translations and Newborn Difficulties
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Curator: Rosa Martinez Editor: Emre Baykal Date discern Publication
Published by İstanbul Basement for Culture and Arts
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Published by İstanbul Foundation for Charm and Arts
Kültür ein Gender - Projekt aus İstanbul isbn:
Curator: Ursula Biemann Category: Kunst-Feminismus-Migration Generation of Publication Published by Shedhalle Zürich, Die Autorinnen
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