PROFILE : Experienced with various studio techniques like design, printmaking, drawing/painting and sculpture. Interested with combining traditional arts and traditional ways of making art with contemporary art. Teaching at Hacettepe University Sculpture Department. Works and lives in Ankara /Turkey
Seval Şener deals with the visual values which create surface effect and visual values which create depth effect in her works. She uses depth-surface, perspective-flatness, figure-ornament, ornament-space oppositions and units these opposites in traditional arts such as miniature or traditional paper cutting. She transforms the surface effect to depth and the depth effect to surface. These transformations result with contemporary interpretation of traditional arts. Her work has a strong reference to art history. Şener’s works might read as East-West problem with a cultural reading. However, an aesthetic reading shows that she relates the two basic art forms with each other. In order to show this relation art historical references are in evitable.
EDUCATION
2012 PhD in Sculpture Hacettepe University Sculpture Department
2008 M.A Degree Eastern Illinois University Sculpture Main
2007 Master of Fine Arts Degree Graphic Design2007 Department
2005 Bachelor of Arts Degree Bilkent University Painting Department
1999 Bachelor of Arts Degree Hacettepe University Turkish Language and Literature Department
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2020 “Eros&Psyche” Galeri Nev Ankara/Turkey
2019 “6 December 2016” Torun, Ankara /Turkey
2018 “A New Light In the Harem” GaleriNev Ankara /Turkey
2016 “An Gelir” Tilki, Ankara/Turkey
2015 “Keep Calm/In the Age of Flatness” Slakateliers, Arnhem/Holland
2013 “Solo Solo” ODTU Library Exhibition Hall, Ankara/Turkey
2012 “Do not Wash in Hand” GalleryBu, Istanbul/Turkey
2011 “Renaissance Re-ordered” Gallery Ama, Helsinki/Finland
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2020 “A little Garden Dream”, Embassy of Germany, Ankara
2020 “Crystal Chateau”, Evliyagil Museum, Ankara
2019 “Roots and Growth”, Beer Sheva Museum, Israel
2019 “Golden Age, Galeri Nev, Ankara
2019 “Stronger than Me” Galeri Siyah&Beyaz, Ankara
2019 “Stilllife with a Curtain” Galerist, Istanbul
2017 “Angle’s Share” Depo, İstanbul
2016 “Nesnenin Belleği mi?”, Cer Modern, Ankara
2016 “Bolero An International Moving Art project”, Genova
2016 “City as Home”, Berlin
2015 “Show Of”, Arte Art Gallery, Ankara 2015
2014 “Vague, Drunken Dog”, Cer Modern, Ankara 2014
2013 “NevNesil”, Galeri Nev, Ankara 2013
2013 “Me&I Myself” Cer Modern, Ankara 2013
2012 “Totally Ottamans”Beytepe Art Gallery, Ankara 2012
2009 “Borders, Orbits 05/06” Siemenst Art,Istanbul 2009
2009 “The Good, Bad and Ugly”Goethe Institute, Ankara 2009
2007 “Dictionary Objects” Istanbul Performance Days, Galataperform 2007
2006 “25th Contemporary Artists Exhibition”, Aksanat, Istanbul 2006
2006 “4.International Marmara University Triennial”, Istanbul 2006
2005 “ Identity, Tradition” Turkish English Culture Exhibition, Ankara
FESTIVALS, FAIRS
2012 XVII Mantaa Art Festival-Manntaa, Finland
2012 Polymer Culture Factory Festival 2012, Tallin, Estonia
2009 Without Perspective, Turku Book Fair, Hungary
AWARDS&GRAND&FELLOW
2018 Hacettepe University Art Encouragement Award
2015 Turkish Cultural Foundation Exchange Fellow 2015
2008 Eastern Illinois University Outstanding International Art Student Award
2006 National Military Academy Painting-Sculpture Competition
Special Jury Award in Sculpture
ARTIST TALKS/COLLOQUIUM
“On A New Light In the Harem”, Galeri Nev Ankara 15.03.2018
“Dazzling Visual History of Art”, H.Ü. Tıp Fakültesi 19.11.2015
“Rest In Peace” Ankara University Faculty of Lang, Hist. and Geography 16.04.2013
“On Renaissance Re-ordered” XVI Mantan Contemporary Art Fest 19.08.2012
“Camouflage-On Erdal Duman Exhibition” Gallery Black&White 15.01.2012
contact: sevalsener@gmail.com
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