Ilker Basirli

b 1976 Krumbach. Lives and works in Berlin.

ARTIST STATEMENT

In the works, that push the borders between the figural and abstraction and try to establish a new balance between them, there is an attempt to direct the viewer’s attention to the indistinct and the uncertain by forming diffuse and ostensibly hollow plain black areas.

Vita

  • Education
  • 1998 - 2002 Faculty of Visual Arts (Painting) - Dokuz Eylül University - Izmir - TR
  • 2002 - 2008 Stuttgart State Academy of Art and Design - Stuttgart - DE
  • 2006 - 2008 Minor Program - University of the Arts - Berlin - DE
  • Exhibitions (Selected)
  • 50 Contemporary Artists by Enter Art Foundation – Orenstein & Koppel Lofts – Berlin – DE
  • 2006 Kunstprobe 06 - Gallery Fine Arts 2219 - Stuttgart - DE
  • 2006 Kunstsommer - Kunstverein Oberhausen - Oberhausen - DE
  • 2005 Malerei - Galerie Fine Arts 2219 - Stuttgart - DE
  • 2005 Es ist Gesund - Kunstverein Radolfzell - Radolfzell - DE 
  • 2005 Rundgang - Peter Tedden Gallery - Düsseldorf - DE
  • 2004 Transmissionen 2 - Warsaw - PL
  • 2004 Guten Tag, Germany Denken viel - Stuttgart Municipal Library - Stuttgart - DE
  • 2003 Dinkelak - Stuttgart - DE
  • 2002 UMSS, (1.National Diploma Exhibition) - Ankara - TR
  • 2002 Exhibition of the National Competition for Paintings and Sculpture - Ankara - TR
  • Awards
  • 2004 Academy Prize - Stuttgart State Academy of Art and Design - Stuttgart - DE
  • 2004 Taki Hisao Special Award -The 25th International Taki Fuji Art Award - Tokyo - JP
  • 2003 Academy Prize - Stuttgart State Academy of Art and Design - Stuttgart - DE
  • 2002 National Competition for Paintings and Sculpture Award - TR

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Works by Ilker Basirli