CV

MFA Live Art Forms, with distinction; DAAD Prize 2024, Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg (AdBK), Nuremberg, DE

Graduate coursework in Sociology, Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Istanbul, TR

Resisting in Grief, solo exhibition with An Act of Accompaniment, live performance, 22–29 March, 7 days, 6 hours each day, Neun Kelche, Berlin, DE

Resisting in Grief, solo exhibition, Mouches Volantes, Cologne, DE

White Roses, Pink Glitter, live performance, 2 hours, Warmoes Biennale, Amsterdam, NL

Scales, live performance for 48 hours, open to the public for 6 hours a day, as part of Turnings of Late, hours space, Berlin, DE

between the lungs and the liver, reading performance, in collaboration with P.B., as part of A Poetic and Performative Gathering Around The Body, Schau Fenster, Berlin, DE

Prologue for Endless Rehearsal, as part of …when one of us remembers who we really are, all of us remember…, curated by Misal Adnan Yıldız, Pickle Bar, Berlin, DE

the body, battlefield, as part of Choreomania Bodily Excess, Collective Unrest, curated by Aleksandra Wojt, Victoria Mazzone, and Joy Bomer, DOOR Foundation, Hemburgterrain, Zaandam, NL

Fire, everywhere, as part of Aphrodisiac Garden: A Yard for Intimacy, Botany and Health, curated by Katharina Wahl, Zeller-Mörike-Garden, Ornamenta2024, Nagold, DE

Fire, everywhere, as part of Heartbeats, duo exhibition with Martin Toloku, curated by Maja Smoszna and Malte Pieper, Bärenzwinger, Berlin, DE

Angelus Altera, live performance; documentation video shown within the exhibition 90s on stage, SALT Beyoğlu, Istanbul, TR

My burden is my soulmate, within video installation, Schwules Museum, Berlin, DE

White Roses, Pink Glitter, Haus der Statistik, Berlin, DE

surrounded by water, Future Ritual / Kunstraum, London, UK

Looking after a rose, 28 days without a break, Needed: You, 672 Hours / Performistanbul, Istanbul, TR

Empoisoned Princess, 10 days, 8 hours per day, in cooperation with Performistanbul and ALAN Istanbul, Istanbul, TR

24 Hour Host by Lauren McCarthy, 24-hour performance, Zorlu Performing Arts Center, Istanbul, TR

The Domain of Things by Pedro Gómez-Egaña, 8 hours, 3 times a week for 2 months, 15th Istanbul Biennial, curated by Elmgreen & Dragset, Galata Greek School, Istanbul, TR

Turnings of Late, trio exhibition with Tanya Abelton and Julija Zaharijević, curated by Yanne Horas, hours space, Berlin, DE

unbecomings, curated by Misal Adnan Yıldız, Zilberman Gallery, Berlin, DE

Eternal Light, Bilsart, Istanbul, TR

A Crack We Sprout Through, trio exhibition with Elif Saydam and Ndayé Kouagou, curated by Melih Aydemir, SANATORIUM, Istanbul, TR

Jahresgaben 2024, Kunstverein Ludwigshafen, Ludwigshafen, DE

Heartbeats, exhibition with Martin Toloku, curated by Maja Smoszna and Malte Pieper, Bärenzwinger, Berlin, DE

Lubunya Dispatches, curated by Erkan Affan and Queer Art Projects, ICA, London, UK

Patriarchy and war, Anti War Coalition Art Project program, Goethe-Institut, European Pavilion, Rome, IT

arcHIV. A Search for Traces, Schwules Museum, Berlin, DE

unspeakable home, enchanting companions, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, DE

Asian Women Artists, Jeonbuk Museum of Art, Jeonju, KR

Invited Artist, 4–14 December, Venice International Performance Art Week residency, curated by VestAndPage, Venice, IT

Choreomania residency, curated by Aleksandra Wojt, Victoria Mazzone, and Joy Bomer, DOOR Foundation, September–October, Amsterdam / Zaandam, NL

CAMP – Notes on Art Education, as part of documenta fifteen, curated by Esther Poppe and Pia Wagner, Kassel, DE

Istanbul–Berlin exchange, nGbK, ZK/U and DEPO Istanbul, July–December, Berlin, DE

Residency, curated by Sezen Tonguz, Forum Dança, Lisbon, PT

Performance artist residency program, Warehouse9, Copenhagen, DK

Presentation Funding, Berlin Senate Administration for Culture and Social Cohesion, DE

Gwaetler Grant, Gwaetler Stiftung, CH

DAAD Prize, Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD), at Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg, DE

Selected for the LfA Kunstkalender 2024, Förderbank Bayern, DE

Project funding, SAHA Association, TR

Research Stipend, NEUSTART Kultur – Fonds Darstellende Künste, DE

Project funding, Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media and SAHA Association

Research stipend, Berlin Senate of Culture and Europe, DE

Artist-in-Residence Scholarship, Berlin Senate of Culture and Europe, DE

Faruk Sade Grant, Siyah Beyaz Gallery, TR

Hello I'm Leman, a woman artist from Turkey, two-channel video performance, Jeonbuk Museum of Art public art collection, KR; Banu Çarmıklı collection, TR

Looking after a rose, performance documentation video, Live Art Development Agency (LADA) archive, London, UK

The Visit, video work, EUROPACH digital archive

Complete Incomplete, performance documentation video, B3 Collection, TR

Angelus Altera, two-channel performance documentation video, monoco.io art collection, TR

leaking time I–II, video work, Banu Çarmıklı collection, TR

İBNE, fabric work, Baha Toygar collection, TR

White Roses, Pink Glitter, performance documentation video, Baha Toygar collection, TR

philia, video work, Agah Uğur and Saruhan Doğan collections, Istanbul, TR

Fire, everywhere, photographic documentation selected for LfA Kunstkalender 2024 / Förderbank Bayern, DE

There Is No End, performance remain / sculpture, Burhanoğlu Collection, Istanbul, TR

A Poetic and Performative Gathering Around The Body, night-long performance program with readings and short performances by queer artists, as part of Having A Body, Schau Fenster, Berlin, DE

Madi Ancestors, co-curated with Yener Bayramoğlu, in cooperation with GLADT e.V., supported by Partnerschaft Demokratie Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg, online festival

Dream Pavilion, co-curated with Yekhan Pınarlıgil and Murat Alat, as part of Unexpected Territories, 26th International Contemporary Art Fair TÜYAP, Istanbul, TR

Guest lecturer, Art in Context MA, seminar The Body as a Tool of Radical Political Struggles, UdK Berlin, DE

Mentorship in Performance Art (BA), Bilgi University / Performistanbul, Istanbul, TR

Body as an Artistic Medium: Working With(in) Limits, Expanding Possibilities, workshop, Berlin Art Institute, Berlin, DE

The body as a laboratory of fears, emotions and limits, workshop, Tanzfabrik, Berlin, DE

Open Studio artist talk, DOOR Foundation, Zaandam, NL

Artist talk, Bauhaus University Weimar, Weimar, DE

Collecting performance art, archive and rights in Turkey, SAHA Talks / SAHA Association

Planet Lubunya – Queer Scenes and Shrinking Spaces in Istanbul & Berlin, Heinrich Böll Foundation

Resisting in Grief: defending lives through mourning in Turkey, by Şilan Bingöl, The Amargi

Grief in Glitter [Simlere Bulanan Yas], by Aslı Zengin, Sanat Dünyamız / YKY, vol. 208, Istanbul

White Roses, Pink Glitter. Learning embodied knowledge from queer performance artists, by Rena Onat, Open Gender Journal, Berlin

Emergency Index, Performance Almanac, VOL 10/+, Ugly Duckling Presse

Each Queer Death Is An Aids Complication, by Alper Turan, Texte zur Kunst, Berlin

Post/pandemic life: A new theory of fragility, by Yener Bayramoğlu and María do Mar Castro Varela, Transcript, Berlin

Member of Istanbul Queer Art Collective. Presented at Zürcher Theater Spektakel, Zurich; II. Sound Acts Festival, Athens; Les Belles de Nuit Festival / Photobastei, Zurich; SALT Beyoğlu, Istanbul; and Ark Kültür, Istanbul.