SELDA ASAL Visual artist. Born in Izmir : Studied Musicology and Art.
 Initiater of the Apartment Project” in Istanbul. Currently living in Istanbul.


Selected  exhibitions between 2011-1995

2011

 Gör Beni / See me,  Ben sahidende kimdim?/Who was I for real? Dijital Film Mångkulturellt centrum , Fittja Stockholm, Isveç

 

 Görmek için çok karanlık /'Too dark to see' , sound production/ ses : Cem Akkan

Film Compilations of ‘ Herşey senin iyiliğin için’  

10th. IF AFM International Independent Film Festival, , Istanbul, Locarno ve Venedik Film Festival.

 

 

2010

 

Herşey Yolunda!/ Everything's fine! , Fotoğraf , 'A dream but not yours... Kuratör: Esra Sarigedik Oktem, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC, USA

 Visandid , Dijital Film, ses : Cem Akkan,  Mooste, Estonya

Hey dünya duy sesimi’, video, müzik: Serdar Ateser.

 

“Le Musée Ephémère” , La Saison Vidéo, L’Espace Croisé , Roubaix, France

 

If , 9th AFM International Independent Film Festival, Istanbul, Turkey

2009

'All Pale' , 'Dream is still a puzzle', video,  'Reciprocal Visit ' , cur: Serra Ozhan,
Depo, Istanbul,Turkey

  ' I dream but...' ,  video,   Collaboration with musician Serdar Ateser,
 Museum Ziem, Martigues, France

next turn
I dream but... ,  video installation, Maison Folie Moluen ,Lille,France
Collaboration with musician Serdar Ateser

Be a dream, digital video,Bethanienhause, Berlin, Germany
Collaboration with musician Serdar Ateser

See me, Seriously Ironic ,cur: Dolores Denaro& Isin Onol
 CentrePasquArt Kunsthaus Centre d'art, Biel, Switzerland

Hey world hear my voice, Collaboration with musician Serdar Ateser ,Istanbul Film Festival/ Duzende (çok) kuçuk bozukluklar" , Cur: Yekhan Pinarligil,  Aksanat
20.Ankara Film festivali, Turkiye 'de videonun 35 yili

Meeting Europe - Istanbul  '35 years of Turkish video art'

 Wacken Exhibition Centre, Strasbourg
within the framework of st-art'09, 14th Strasbourg Contemporary Art Fair
Curated by Celenk Bafra and Ege Berensel

2008

Hard to die, video installation, SAVE AS Contemporary Art  from Turkey, cur Derya Yucel, Milano,Italy


Home Sweet Home , Pure Expression,   cur : Jelena Radic  13th Art Biennial Pancevo, Serbia

Becoming Istanbul , I wouldn't quit ,if the world turned upside down,Love is Fake, Hard to die,  Deutsches Architekturmuseum, Frankfurt

7.4.4 ,  'Accumulated: ...put aside, left aside'  cur: Asli Cetinkaya & Isin Onol
5333 IMC,Istanbul



See me, Who was I , really?, Hard to die, video,  Gallery Alkatraz at Metelkova, Ljubliana, Slovenia-Solo exhibition

See me / Se mig! -Solo exhibition-
Who was I , really? - Vem var jag, egentligen?  /Video installation in Vagoon
-Project :Home not Home  ,Video Installation ,Riksutstalingar/Travelling exhibition: Goteborg, Stockholm,Malmo, Umea, Skövde, Varberg,Lund,Kalix,Katrineholm, Linköping,Ludvika, Osby, Ostersund, Pitea. www.homenothome.se


See me / Se mig!   Video Installation
Who was I , really? - Vem var jag, egentligen?  DSM, Diyarbakir,Turkey-Solo exhibition
                                                                             Depo, Istanbul, Turkey-Solo exhibition

Restore Hope : Love is Fake, I wouldn't quit , if the world upside down, Hard to die, Vita kuben Umeå, Sweden-Solo exhibition


   Com’on, come here , I can not hear you!   Collaboration with musician Serdar Ateser ,Video Installations ,Holstebro, Denmark, Public Spaces in Holstebro -performance and video installation  www.youtube.com/seldaasal2

Hard to die, video installation,Nev Gallery,Istanbul -solo exhibition
Wofuer Kaempfen wir?,  Labour 6, Berlin -workshop, presentation, event

2007

 Hard to die, video installation, Arttransponder, Berlin -solo exhibition


        Hard to die, video installation, OFF BEAT , cur : Maja Ciric, SKC, Belgrate,Serbia

2+1  , multi media installation , Apartment Project (colaboration with Ceren Oykut and Neriman Polat)
10 th.Istanbul    Bienniale,  cur : Hou Hanru, Istanbul  www.nice-kids.net

I wouldn't quit ,if the world turned upside down, Istanbul Now , Video Installation ,      Galerie  Lucas  Feichtner,Vienna, Nev Gallery, Istanbul,
Contemporary Art  Museum, Novi Sad,Serbia

The Trial, video installation, Mediterrenean Dialogs, cur: Susan van Hagen,France


 Everything is ok!  , cur :Ovul Durmusoglu ,Radikal Art , billboards in Istanbul Streets,Istanbul

Four days in Cairo , Upgrade! Tel Aviv-Jerusalem , cur:Basak Senova ,Contemporary Image ,Center (CIC) Cairo

 
2006      
 
Postcards Stockholm-Istanbul - collaborated with Ceren Oykut   ,Interactive Video installation,Botkyrka  Kunsthalle, Stockholm

 Love is fake,  video  installation ,PRO –arte ,Copenhagen
The 12th International Festival of Computer Arts , Maribor ,Slovenia
Odysee, 17. Cinema weeks Strausbourg

Competing with Genies  , Outliners , video installation  Arttransponder,Berlin,  and Odysee, 17. Cinema weeks Strausbourg


2005  
    
Restore Hope  ,Loosing Control, cur: Galit Elat,Basak Senova,Eyal Danon ,Transmediale,HDKW,Berlin,


Egnasia, collaborated with STALKER -Iacopo Gallico, cur:Marina Fokidis Yeni Cami, Thesaloniki,Greece,

 _Vertigo Entrapped _ Volume 2_ video and photography selection curated by  Basak Senova for  Attitude  video /short & experimental film/ photography
festival curated by Biljana Petrovska Isijani, Magaza, Bitola.


2 minute –Attitude,  Bitola,  Macedonia  - Cultural Center "Magaza" (Institute and  Museum)Center for Contemporary Public Arts ELEMENTI+International Art Expo  (Italy)

House of glass, (In-)Security cur:Sabine Winkler,The Badische Kunstverein,Karlsruhe

' Home sweet home' The Balkan Art  Triennial Exhibition of Contemporary Art , cur: Svetlana Mladenov, Sava Stepanov, The Golden Eye Centre for Visual Culture ,Novi Sad, Serbia and Montenegro

 Waiting Room,  Apartment Project, Istanbul

Love is Fake, Kunst oder Konigin,cur :Danielle de Piciotto,Arena,Berlin

Ocu ,Neurotitan,Berlin

 Lost Postcard ,Tele-city, Collaborated with Ceren Oykut,  Siemens Art, Istanbul,
cur:Marcus Graf,Basak Senova

Lost Postcard ,Point of View  cur :Judith Nothnagel Fournos Center for the Art and New Technology, Athens, Greece,Museum Wesel, Lower Rhine, Germany,
Gallery Noass, Art and Culture Project Noass, Riga, Latvia,
Audiovisual Festival zemos98 in cooperation with Endanza, Sevilla, Spain
,Contemporary Art Museum ex-manifattura tabacchi, Pescara, Italy
2005  
    
Restore Hope  ,Loosing Control, cur: Galit Elat,Basak Senova,Eyal Danon ,Transmediale,HDKW,Berlin,


Egnasia, collaborated with STALKER -Iacopo Gallico, cur:Marina Fokidis Yeni Cami, Thesaloniki,Greece,

 _Vertigo Entrapped _ Volume 2_ video and photography selection curated by  Basak Senova for  Attitude  video /short & experimental film/ photography
festival curated by Biljana Petrovska Isijani, Magaza, Bitola.


2 minute –Attitude,  Bitola,  Macedonia  - Cultural Center "Magaza" (Institute and  Museum)Center for Contemporary Public Arts ELEMENTI+International Art Expo  (Italy)

House of glass, (In-)Security cur:Sabine Winkler,The Badische Kunstverein,Karlsruhe

' Home sweet home' The Balkan Art  Triennial Exhibition of Contemporary Art , cur: Svetlana Mladenov, Sava Stepanov, The Golden Eye Centre for Visual Culture ,Novi Sad, Serbia and Montenegro

 Waiting Room,  Apartment Project, Istanbul

Love is Fake, Kunst oder Konigin,cur :Danielle de Piciotto,Arena,Berlin

Ocu ,Neurotitan,Berlin

 Lost Postcard ,Tele-city, Collaborated with Ceren Oykut,  Siemens Art, Istanbul,
cur:Marcus Graf,Basak Senova

Lost Postcard ,Point of View  cur :Judith Nothnagel Fournos Center for the Art and New Technology, Athens, Greece,Museum Wesel, Lower Rhine, Germany,
Gallery Noass, Art and Culture Project Noass, Riga, Latvia,
Audiovisual Festival zemos98 in cooperation with Endanza, Sevilla, Spain
,Contemporary Art Museum ex-manifattura tabacchi, Pescara, Italy

2004

Turbulence ,1.st Balkan Biennial –Cosmopolis, Macedonia Museum of Contemporary Art,Theseloniki,Greece,cur:Magda Carneci

 Palimpsests, Book Trieannale,Lille, France

 Turbulence, The Ideal, Center for Contemporary Art ,Plovdiv,Bulgaria,cur:Emil Mirazciev

Home Sweet Home, Personal Cinema ,Novi Sad , Serbia& Montenegro,cur: Ilias Marmaras

Ctrl-alt-delete ,Babylone,Istanbul,cur :Basak Senova, Eyal Danon



2003

 Palimpsests, 3 rd.Triennal Vilnius, Luitvania,Frankfurt,Lille

Home Sweet Home, Euroscreen 21, PAN-Museum,Emmerich,Kunstpalast Dusseldorf,Germany,Transmediale Berlin, cur:Judith Nothnagel

Home Sweet Home, Novi sad Digital Video Art Festival.Novi Sad, Serbia

Living Room, Eco Art, Russe,Bulgaria

Untitled,The making of Balkan wars: The game Thesseloniki,Skopje,Belgrade,Novi Sad,Bucharest

2002

Shoe Store, In Search of Balkania, Neue Galerie Graz Landesmuseum Joanneum,   Austria, ,cur:Peter Weibel,Roger Conover,Eda Cufer
www.apartmentproject.com

The Dream Quilt, Between the waterfronts,,cur: Ron Mandos, Fulya Erdemci, Dutch Art  ,Rotterdam,The Nederlands

Dream, Contemporary Art in Balkan Countries, State Museum of Contemporary Art ,   Thesseloniki ,Greece

Living Room, Ecoart3 – RUSSE, cur:Ivan Ivanova, State Museum of Russe, Bulgaria Bulgaria

 The Trial,Transparency,Cur:Emil Mirazciev Plovdiv Center of Contemporary Art , Bulgaria

The Trial , Personal Space-Public Space, 22. Nadezda Petrovic cur:Zoran Eric,Lyubisa Simovic 22.,Galery Nadezda Petrovic ,Cacak, Yugoslavia

House of glass ,Mirror of Balkans, cur:Lyubisa Simovic,Stevan Vukovic  National Museum+Ogledelo Visual Art Center Kraljevo,Yugoslavia

Palimpsests, Imaginning the book ,cur:Mouhammed Aboulnega The Library of Alexandria, Alexandria,Egypt

me /my self  Cathy Brewster Galery ,New Zealand

2001
Endscene,   Apartment Project, Istanbul   -solo- 

 House of glass, From faraway so close,cur: Margrit Brehm, Baden-Baden Kunsthalle, Germany2001  

House of glass, Bugunku Program, Gelecek Program, Yapi Kredi Kultur  Sanat , Istanbul    

2000 -1999

Sleep, Passage de Bosphore ,Musee de Picardie cur: Sylvie Couderc ,Musee de Picardie , Amiens , France

 Paris Journal,  FCC , Istanbul -solo-

2000     


The notebook, Confidental  , cur: Christian Hutzinger , Galerie Ilse Hutzinger ,  Ebensee ,  Austria                                      

1999     

The Quilt, Ortung , cur: Gottfried Goiginger, Galerie 5020 , Salzburg


1998   

  Export-Import, Volkskunde Museum , Vienna

Kerteriz  , cur: Beral Madra , Ataturk Kultur Merkezi, Istanbul

1998

Sleep,  BM Contemporary Art Center


1996

 Tessera, cur: Ewald Statzny ,  Art in Nature , St.Veil/Vienna

1995
Archieve  901234 L  Stettener Castle , Loerrach , Germany

1992

 Palimpsests,        Siyah Beyaz, Ankara- solo-
                               BM Contemporary Art Center,Istanbul

Palimpsests, BM Contemporary Art Center,Istanbul


1991  

 Ani-Bellek, cur:Vasif  Kortun,Taksim Sanat Galerisi,Istanbulcur:Vasif  Kortun


Please check  www.apartmentproject.com  for Selda Asal's collaborative works.
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