Based in Adana, Turkey, and London, England / mubogga@hotmail.com
Education
2014-2016: Central Saint Martins, MA Fine Art, London
2009-2010: Greenwich University, MA Cinematography and Post Production, London
2003-2009: Istanbul University, Faculty of Communication, Journalism, Istanbul/Turkey
2000-2002: Harran University, Vocational College of Higher Education, Radio&TV Broadcasting Programme, Urfa/Turkey
Solo Shows
2023 - Looking for the warm spot in a swimming pool, Kun Art Space, Adana, Turkey
2022 - All the things I don't want to hear from a politician, Martch Art Project, Istanbul, Turkey
2022 - Wild Flowers, Seven9three Gallery, London, UK
2021 - Because ours could be the beginning of a beautiful fairy tale dreamed of for years, Bilsart, İstanbul, Turkey
2021 - The Foundation Ceremony/Temel Atma Töreni, are Projects, Antalya, Turkey
2020 - There He Is Without A Proper Diagnosis, LOA Gallery, London, UK
2019 - The Landscape of Perpetual Flags, Casa dell’Arte, Lisbon, Portugal
2018 - Army Time Memoir, Curated by Roshanak Khakban, The Emerging Artists Gallery, London, UK
2017 - There He Is Without A Proper Diagnosis, Peckham Pelican, London, UK
Duo Show
2018 - #2953c1 When it is not Spontaneous, Collaboration with Kolbrún Inga Söring, Sagacity, Brussels, Belgium
2017 - #276331054 - Story Provided If Wanted, Collaboration with Kolbrún Inga Söring - Listastofan Gallery, Reykjavik, Iceland
2017 - 50.065.07 Red Never Apologises For Being Red - Collaboration with Kolbrún Inga Söring - SIOUSIOU Studios, Berlin, Germany
Selected Group Shows
2023 - Paris Photo Art Fair, Paris, France
2023 - Far/Near, Museum of Painting and Sculpture in Izmir, Turkey
2023 - Pretty Doom with qap.digital at Ugly Duck, London, UK
2023 - Contemporary Istanbul with Martch Art Project, Istanbul, Turkey
2023 - From another world, Gazhane Museum, İstanbul, Turkey
2023 - Slow down, Touch and Feel, Turkish Textile Biennial, İzmir, Turkey
2023 - It doesn't matter until it does, Martch Art Project, Istanbul, Turkey
2023 - Lucid Dreams, Art Exchange, Essex, UK
2023 - I wish I was there, Gri Space, Ayvalık, Turkey
2022 - Launch Event, QAP digital, Reference Point 180, London, UK
2022 - Just One Bite, Giswil Performance Festival, Giswil, Switzerland
2022 - Contemporary Textile Art Biennial, Guimaraes, Portugal
2022 - Wells Contemporary, Wells, UK
2022 - Contemporary Istanbul with Martch Art Project, Istanbul, Turkey
2022 - Otherness for Senkron Exhibition at Martch Art Project, İstanbul, Turkey
2022 - Artweeks Akaretler with Bilsart and Martch Art Project, İstanbul, Turkey
2022 - Leicester City Take Over, Attenborough Art Centre, Leicester, UK
2021 - Don't Look Back, Deep is the Past, Odunpazarı Modern Museum, Eskişehir, Turkey
2021 - Contemporary Istanbul with Martch Art Project, Istanbul, Turkey
2021 - London Art Biennale, Chelsea Old Town Hall, London, UK
2021 - Pek Yakında/Coming Soon for Senkron Exhibition at are Projects, Antalya, Turkey
2021 - Screening of Blowing your Cover or something like that, Performance Art Bergen, Norway
2021 - Screening of Blowing your Cover or something like that, Terrarista TV, Frankfurt, Germany
2020 - Mythological Migrations: Imagining Queer Muslim Utopias Curated by Abdullah Qureshi, Helsinki, Finland
2020 - Breathing Out of School curated by RAW Academie, Bétonsalon, Paris, France
2020 - Life, Interrupted Curated by Tugba Tirpan, SEAS Gallery, Brighton, UK
2020 - Turkish Delight Symposium, Performative Talk Curated by Queer Art Projects, London, UK
2020 - Isolation Mastered, JD Malat Gallery, London, UK
2020 - State of Existence Curated by Tugba Tirpan, SEAS Gallery, Brighton, UK
2020 - Wild Wild Æst, Organised by Æther, The Hague, Netherlands
2020 - Opencreek Show night, Museum Angewandte Kunst. Frankfurt, Germany
2019 - Performance, Testimony, Performance Reihi Neu-Oerliken, Zurich, Switzerland
2019 - State of Existence Curated by Tugba Tirpan, Well Space Community, London, UK
2019 - A Field to Getting Lost, Anesis Cinema, Aegina, Greece.
2019 - Bodies in Alliance / Bodies in Defiance, Monitor/Rotor2, Göteborg, Sweden
2019 - Performance, Testimony, Space (BYOP), London, UK
2019 - ThirdBase Art Residency end show, Lisbon, Portugal
2019 - Silkworms (Photo Performance) ArtAnkara Art Fair, Ankara, Turkey
2018 - Germination, Part Courts, Raw Material Company, Dakar, Senegal
2018 - OF POSSIBLE CONFIGURATIONS, Curated by Roshanak Khakban, A-side B-side Gallery, London, UK
2018 - Performance, Curated by Mirek Macke & Elizabeth Coleman-Link, Kunstverein Familie Montez, Frankfurt, Germany
2018 - Missing Element, Hosted by Agora Art Circle, as part of Wandsworth Arts Fringe, Art Lacuna, London, UK
2018 - Every Me / Her Bir Ben, Martch Art Project, Istanbul Turkey
2018 - Ashurst Emerging Artist Prize Shortlist Exhibition, The Emerging Artists Gallery, London, UK
2018 - Screening: Soul of Things, Gallery Oryza, Obihiro, Hakkaido, Japan
2018 - Performance, SUPERMARKET Art Fair, Stockholm, Sweden
2018 - Sonorous Symmetry, Samt Volume2, Online Exhibition
2018 - Sawt (2a): Qala 0.8900 @Satellite Art Space, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, UAE
2018 - River In An Ocean, Lahore Biennale, Lahore, Pakistan
2018 - Performance, ArtAnkara Art Fair, Ankara, Turkey
2018 - Screening: Transcending species, Transcending gender, Transcending nations, Deptford Cinema, London, UK
2017 - To Play, Curated by Pathfinders, Hosted by Sagacity, Brussels, Belgium
2017 - Every Me / Her Bir Ben, London, UK
2017 - The Intimacy of Banality, KEX Studios, Reykjavík, Iceland
2017 - AiR Competition - Summer Group Show, The Muse at 269 - Gallery / Studio, London, UK
2017 - Process Space Art Festival, Russe, Bulgaria
2017 - Platform Projects, Independent Art Fair, Athens, Greece
2017 - Antennae, Lubomirow/Angus–Hughes Gallery, London, UK
2017 - Affordable Art Fair Hampstead, Made In Arts, London, UK
2017 - Red Mansion Foundation Art Prize Exhibition, Kendrew Barn, Oxford, UK
2016 - Hiding In Plain Sight, Mori&Stein Gallery, London, UK
2016 - Act of Searching Closely, ASC Gallery, London, UK
2016 - No Way Out, Red Gate Studios, Beijing, China
2016 - SHE, Exploring The Construct of Femininity, Ugly Duck, Tanner Street, London, UK
2016 - #32 Annual Open, CGP Gallery, London, UK
2016 - SELF/CONTROL, Co-Thinking About Future, Punctum Gallery, London, UK
2016 - DO, UNDO, REDO, Degree Show-Central Saint Martins, The Crossing, London, UK
2016 - Part of Us, Auction and Exhibition, Central Saint Martins, London, UK
2016 - Metaphonica 2, The Street, London, UK
Fellowships and Funds
2023 - Funded by The Ampersand Foundation for Wirksworth Festival, Derby, UK
2020 - Participant of Deconstruction: Art and Ecology curated by Art Elsewhere and Are, London, UK
2020 - Freelands Foundation Emergency Fund, a-n The Artists Information Company, London, UK
2018 - Académie Session 5 GERMINATION directed by Otobong Nkanga at RAW Material Company, Dakar, Senegal
2017 - Scholarship for the project ‘Story provided if wanted’ by Listastofan Gallery, Reykjavik, Iceland
Awards
2021 - Winner of project fund open call, Bilsart, İstanbul, Turkey
2018 - Awarded for The Ashurst Emerging Artist Prize as ‘Highly Commended Artist’, London, UK
2017 - Shortlisted for AiR Competition Studio Award, The Muse at 269 - Gallery / Studio, London, UK
2016 - Winner of Red Mansion Art Prize, UK/China
Residencies
2023 - Air Kvitbrakka, Berlevag, Norway
2022 - AIR Sandnes, Norway
2022 - Martch Arts Studio Residency, Ayvalık, Turkey
2021 - Viborg Kunsthal Riddergade, Viborg, Denmark
2019 - ThirdBase Art Residency, Lisbon, Portugal
2018 - Montez Performance Residency, Kunstverein Familie Montez, Frankfurt, Germany
2018 - Sagacity Residency, Brussels, Belgium (Collaboration with Kolbrún Inga Söring)
2018 - HighHouse Residency, Norfolk, UK (Collaboration with Kolbrún Inga Söring)
2017 - Artist In Residence, Process Space Art Festival, Russe, Bulgaria
2017 - Studio Residency, Micro Nation: The Forth Culture Residency, SIOUSIOU Studios, Berlin, Germany
Curatorial and Work Experiences
2020 - Self in Transit, Tuğba Tirpan solo exhibition, Cable Depot, London, UK
2019 - Curator of Every Me Exhibition, ThirdBase, Lisbon, Portugal
2018 - Curator of Every Me / Her Bir Ben: Residency/Exhibition, Arkeology Museum, Adana, Turkey
2017 - Curator of Every Me / Her Bir Ben: Residency/Exhibition, The Golden Boll Culture and Art Centre, Adana, Turkey
2017 - Performer, Spinal Discipline by Irena Haiduk, Documenta14, Kassel, Germany
2017 - Performer, Carved To Flow by Otobong Nkanga, Documenta14, Kassel, Germany
2016 - Curator, Hiding In Plain Sight, Mori&Stein Gallery, London, UK
Publicity
2023 - Click HERE for an interview at ArteEast
2022 - Click HERE for an interview about the solo exhibition 'All the things I don't want to hear from a politician'
2022 - Click HERE for an interview at OMM for the exhibition titled “Don't Look Back Deep is the Past'
2022 - Click HERE for an article at Independent Türkce
2021 - Click HERE for an interview at Textile Curator
Publication
2017 - Click HERE for online publication of #276331054 - Story Provided If Wanted
2017 - Click HERE for online publication of 50.065.07 Red Never Apologises For Being Red