Upcoming
The Visit in Schwules Museum as part of “arcHIV: A search for traces” exhibition
20 August 2021 – 10 January 2022
The Visit will be displayed at Schwules Museum as part of arcHIV: A search for traces, curated by Maria Bormuth, Eugen Januschke, Heiko Pollmeier, Heiner Schulze and Todd Sekuler.
Occupying coast, stringing out lines
18 August 2021, 17:00–22:00
Live performance, 5 hours
With Derin Cankaya
Galerie Wedding, Berlin
Aiming to break away from victimisation discourses on non-Western queerness and create a new image of the “Global southeast” queer migrant in joy and pleasure, Occupying coast, stringing out lines creates a surreal and joyful crack opening onto an imaginary queer land.
Apartment 52
26 April – 14 May 2021
Curated by Tuba Kocakaya and Lara Lakay at Nemlizade Sok. 52, Yeldeğirmeni, Istanbul. Apartment 52 asks how we might live together again, knitting shattered pieces and forging bonds without ownership with objects and breathing things alike.
Tempo Incognito: On Flows, Rhythm, and Movement
3 March – 18 April 2021
Curated by Rana Öztürk at Depo Istanbul, Tempo Incognito examines the experience and conceptualisation of temporality in contemporary societies and how our sense of time clashes or aligns with natural, ecological and universal cycles. Leman Sevda Darıcıoğlu participates with Hank Yan Agassi.
Come on bro! as part of Unboxing: masculinities at Hochschule Osnabrücke
30 January 2021, 12:00–19:00
Seven-hour drag-king performance Come on bro! investigates manhood’s bodily gestures and movements through references to Zeybek, a folkloric dance from the Aegean region. Taking Zeybek as a starting point, Darıcıoğlu questions the lines between gender and imitation, body and performativity, and the relationships between nationalism and masculinity.
Planet Lubunya – Queer Scenes and Shrinking Spaces in Istanbul & Berlin
2020
Leman Sevda Darıcıoğlu participates in Planet Lubunya – Queer Scenes and Shrinking Spaces in Istanbul & Berlin.
Body, Sexuality, Identity as part of Base Talks 2020
2020
Leman Sevda Darıcıoğlu participates in BASE Talks 2020 in the session Body, Sexuality, Identity.
White Roses, Pink Glitter as part of “Glitter and Grief”
6 October 2020
Live performance, 5 hours
Haus der Statistik, Berlin
In White Roses, Pink Glitter, Leman S. Darıcıoğlu remembers Zak Kostopoulos and creates an image of queer resilience and mourning. Borrowing glitter from Zak’s Instagram post “What if we get lost? I just follow the glitter,” Darıcıoğlu uses glitter as a metaphor of queer strength and survival under contemporary heteropatriarchal regimes.
There is an ocean between us
28 July 2020, 13:00–20:00
Apartment Project Berlin hosts Leman S. Darıcıoğlu’s new seven-hour performance There is an ocean between us. Darıcıoğlu’s ongoing exploration of the body’s boundaries continues by addressing newly arising definitions of distance, limitation, intimacy and borders, using the four windows of Apartment Project as a single narrative while keeping the venue closed to public access.
Photography: Derin Cankaya
Artist-in-Residence Scholarship Istanbul-Berlin
July–December 2020
Leman S. Darıcıoğlu is selected as one of the artists of the Artist-in-Residence Scholarship Istanbul-Berlin programme held by nGbK, ZK/U and Depo Istanbul. From July to December, Darıcıoğlu will be living and working in Berlin.