SENCER VARDARMAN - CV

http://www.vardarman.net
mail@vardarman.net

GRANTS, RESIDENCIES, PRIZES

2022 Stiftung Kunstfonds, Neustart Kultur, Germany
2020 Goethe Institute, Kulturakademie Tarabya Residency, Istanbul, Turkey
2017 Research Scholarship of Senat Berlin, Germany
2015 Artists´ contacts (Künstlerkontakte) - project grant, IFA, Stuttgart, Germany
2015 Platform residency - Vaasa, Finland
2009 KWW-Art,Science, Economy Scholarship, Stiftung Künstlerdorf Schöppingen, Germany
2007 Scholarship of Senat Berlin, Germany
2002 GASAG Art prize, mansion, Berlin, Germany
2001 “Digitale Bildwelten” Sparkasse Art Price of Kreissparkasse Recklinghausen,
mansion, Recklinghausen, Germany

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2021 Bilsart - WOUNDED GROUND II, Istanbul, Turkey
2021 okk/raum29 - Look into my Eyes!, Berlin, Germany (together with Demet Ortakoyluogl)
2021 Poster Project in Public Space in Istanbul - Look into my Eyes, Istanbul, Turkey
2020 WAM Wäinö Aaltosen Turku City Art Museum - Under the Mother Earth’s Skin, Turku, Fin-land
2012 Art On Istanbul - Virtual News, Istanbul, Turkey
2010 okk/raum29 - Currency Genealogy, Berlin
2006 SOX - Global Warming + Berlin, Under Water, Berlin, Germany
2003 A Zsokavar Galeria - Portraits, Budapest, Hungary

GROUP EXHIBITIONS (selection)

2023 Çankaya Çağdaş Sanatlar Merkezi - The Age of Fire, Ankara, Turkey
2021 Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien - Studio Bosporus. Festival for the 10th Anniversary of Tar-abya Cultural Academy, Berlin, Germany
2020 Schoeler.Berlin - Berlin 20/ 20 - 100 Jahre, Berlin, Germany
2020 Scotty - Territories, Berlin, Germany
2020 Stadt Findet Kunst - Poster Project in Public Space, Berlin, Germany
2019 Mixer - Lens’19, Istanbul, Turkey
2019 German Consulate - Crossdresser, Istanbul, Turkey
2018 Galerie Nord - City as Ornament, Berlin, Germany
2017 OKK, organ of critical arts - Bomb, Berlin, Germany
2017 Axel Obiger - Gier, Berlin, Germany
2017 Galerie Wedding - Mapping Berlin, Berlin, Germany
2017 Kunsthaus KuLe - Lady Dada Kalam, Berlin, Germany
2017 Axel Obiger - Critical Mass, Berlin, Germany
2016 Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume - Soulèvements-Résistances Numériques, Online Project, Paris, France
2016 9th Berlin Biennial - Fear of Content, Online Project, Berlin, Germany
2015 NGBK - 77□13 Politische Kunst im Widerstand in der Türkei, Berlin, Germany
2015 Cer Modern - Kentsel Adalet, Ankara, Turkey
2014 Landskrona Fotofestival 2014 - Focus: Turkey, TYGHUSET, Landskrona, Sweden
2013 KUAD - onLine, Istanbul, Turkey
2013 Opera Gallery - Istanbul Portfolio, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
2012 3rd Canakkale Biennial - Canakkale, Turkey
2010 Altes Museum Neukoelln - urban memories, Berlin, Germany
2010 Kasa Gallery - 10 Years at Kasa, Istanbul, Turkey
2009 Martin Gropius Bau - Taswir - Pictorial Mappings of Modernity and Islam, Berlin, Germany
2009 2nd Thessaloniki Biennial - 1000+1 Prax(e)is -, Thessaloniki, Greece
2008 Istanbul Centre in Brussels - Istanbul Dyptychs, Brussels, Belgium
2008 Pera Museum - Owl’s Frames, Istanbul, Turkey
2007 Capital - Lund, Sweden
2007 2nd Fotofestival Mannheim / Ludwigshafen / Heidelberg, Reality Crossings, Germany
2007 Kasa Gallery - Legal Tender, Istanbul, Turkey
2007 NBK - Förderkohle, Berlin, Germany
2006 arttransponder - Outliners, Berlin, Germany
2005 Martin Gropius Bau - Focus Istanbul, Berlin, Germany
2005 HKW House of World Cultures - About Beauty (Web Project), Berlin, Germany
2004 Akbank Center for Art and Culture - Thieving City, Istanbul, Turkey
2004 20th IFSAK - Istanbul Photography Days - Metamorphosis, Istanbul, Turkey
2004 Künstlerhaus Bethanien - Berlin-Istanbul Vise-Versa, Berlin, Germany
2001 21. Istanbul Modern Art Exhibition - On Image We Trust, AKM Istanbul, Turkey
2000 Çankaya Center of Contemporary Arts - Young Art in Ankara III, Ankara, Turkey
2000 KW Institute for Contemporary Art - Open up the corridor, Berlin, Germany

TALKS AND JURY WORKS

2018 Kunst im Stadtraum am Hansaplatz, jury member,
Senatverwaltung für Kultur und Europa - Berlin, Germany
2017 Public Art Forms and Conflict Norms, Participant in academic discussion panel,
CESPRA – EHESS - Paris, France
2017 Auszeichnung Künstlerischer Projekträume und Initiativen, jury member,
Senatverwaltung für Kultur und Europa - Berlin, Germany
2016 - 2014 1+1 TALKS 1-9 (Discussion series) Germany, Finland, Turkey

CURATORIAL EXPERIENCE

2009 Istanbul off spaces - Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
(together with Stéphane Bauer)
2007 Legal Tender - Kasa Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey
2006 Outliners - arttransponder e.V., Berlin, Germany

PUBLICATIONS

MONOGRAPH

2012 Sencer Vardarman, Virtual News - a Selection from TV-Landscapes, Art On Istanbul

CATALOGUES

2015 77#13 Politische Kunst im Widerstand in der Türkei, NGBK,
2014 Capital, Publisher: Lund 2014
2012 Fictions and Dissentions, Publisher: 3. Canakkale Biennial
2010 Kasa’da 10 yılı, Publisher: Kasa Galeri ISBN 978-605-4348-01-5
2009 1000+1 1000+1 Prax(e)is, Publisher: 2nd Thessaloniki Biennial, ISBN 978-960-9409-05-6
2009 Taswir Islamische Bilderwelten und Moderne, Publisher: Nicolai ISBN 978-3894795542
2008 Förderkohle - Stipendiatinnen und Stipendiaten der Kulturverwaltung des
Berliner Senats Publisher: Berliner Senat
2006 Arttransponder 05/06, Publisher: ArttranspondereV.
2005 Urbane Realitäten: Fokus Istanbul, Publisher: Künstlerhaus Bethanien Gmbh
2005 The Thieving City, Publisher: Akbank Center of Cultur and Arts
2004 Berlin Istanbul Vice Versa, Publisher: Künstlerhaus Bethanien Gmbh
2001 On Image We Trust, Publisher: Resim Heykel Müzeleri Derneği
2000 Ankara’da genç Sanat, UPSD, ISBN 975-96965-2-5
2000 Digitale Bildwelten, Publisher: Kreissparkasse Recklinghausen,
1996 Experimental Photography - Exhibition of Student Works, Publisher: Mimar Sinan Univercity
ISBN 975-7634-25-5

REVIEWS - CITATIONS

2023 Portfolyo; Fotosfer, Photography Culture Magazine; no 3; Turkish Photography Foundation; ISSN 2791-6383; page 548-555
2021 The Future of The Present: Autonomous Archiving of Activist Videos; Elif Çiğdem Artan; Dis-sertation, Fakultät I - Geistes- und Bildungswissenschaften, der Technischen Universität Berlin; page 128
2018 Freud Talmud Taswir; Shulamit Bruckstein; Next Collateral Damage: Copies in Motion / Thea-ter of Cruelties, for Sencer Vardarman; Taswir Publishing; ISBN 978-3-00-060330-3; page 211-214
30.05.2016 Açık Radyo; Hariçten Sanat; Interview with Çelenk Bafra
2015 Banal Militarism: Zur Veralltäglichung des Militärischen im Zivilen; Tanja Thomas, Fabian Vir-chow; Transcript Verlag; DOI: 10.14361/9783839403563-002, ISBN: 978-3-8394-0356-3; page 387
2013 Stéphane Bauer on “Istanbul Off Spaces” in 2009 and his experience with the Turkish art sce-ne; Deniz Erbaş; Revue d’art Contemporain, no 16, page: 120
2008 European Photography; no 82, vol. 28; ISSN 0172-7028; page 94
2006 Art Without Works; Anneke Bokern; Frame, no 51, page 26
2006 Hinter dem Museum Visuelle Reflexion Kuratorischer Praktiken in Berlin; Susana Waltinger; Plato; no 5; page 86
15.03.2006 Das unsichtbare Kunstwerk, Arttransponder e. V. Projektraum; taz. die tageszeitung; page 28
08.09.2004 Einblick (62), Sencer Vardarman, Künstler; taz. die tageszeitung; page 32
08.09.2004 Hintergrund; taz. die tageszeitung; page 32
04.05.2004 Das Design des Krieges; Andrea Edlinger; taz. die tageszeitung; page 25
2004 Geniş Açı; no 35; ISSN 1302-275x; page: 54

PUBLISHED WRITINGS

2009 Using Other Ones Tools; Sencer Vardarman; Transfer. Beiträge zur Kunstvermittlung; Schöp-pingen Forum der Kunstvermittlun, ISBN 978-3-937828-20-6; Page 55
2006 Schnittstelle Kommunikation, Universität der Künste Berlin, ISBN 3-86664-147-8 / 978-386664-147-1; Page 60
2006 A Long and Misterious Biennale; Sencer Vardarman; Plato; no 3;
2005 Blackbox - Chamber Noir; Sencer Vardarman; Plato; no 2;
2005 Friedrich Christian Flick Collection in Hamburger Bahnhof; Sencer Vardarman; Plato; no 1;

EDUCATION

2003-2006 Institute for Art In Context, University of Arts-Berlin, Germany
Degree: MA
2002-2003 Fine Arts, by Prof. K. Sieverding, University of Arts-Berlin, Germany
Degree: “Meisterschuelerstudium”
1998-2002 Fine Arts, by Prof. K. Sieverding, University of Arts-Berlin, Germany
Degree: “Hochschulabschluss”
1992-1997 Fine Arts, Department of Photography, Mimar Sinan University-Istanbul, Degree: BA
1987-1991 Economics, Istanbul University, Istanbul