MELİKE

Melike began her artistic education at Izmir Anatolian Fine Arts High School, continuing at Marmara University Faculty of Fine Arts, Department of Painting. Additionally, she worked on Performative Acting and Staging Method at Studio Players. She pursued her master's degree in the Art Department of Yildiz Technical University Faculty of Art and Design. She wrote a thesis titled "Choreographic Object in the Works of Robert Rauschenberg, William Forsythe, Jerôme Bel in the Context of Interdisciplinary Art".

Melike's artistic practice revolves around the exploration of forms through various disciplines such as painting, photography, video, and sound, rooted in body-centered gestures occurring in the present moment. By centering on bodily performative experience, the artist reveals the possibilities and limitations of the technique she employs in gestures that are as minimal, scarce, and incomplete as possible. This process brings forth different energy levels and the relationship the body establishes with emptiness, making the invisible visible. Movement, rhythm, and form transform into abstract depictions. Artistic behavior focused on experience creates a common language through various combinations that emphasize the technical elements inherent to the disciplines of painting, photography, video, and sound.

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Exhibitions

Solo Exhibitions:

2024 Melike Solo Bodrum, Merqez Art Gallery, Bodrum, Muğla

2023 Melike Solo İzmir, Gallery A, İzmir

2023 Melike Solo - Online Exhibition, Cultivate Gallery, London

Group Exhibitions:

2024 Artweeks Istanbul X, Independent Wall, Istanbul

2024 Three x Three Part Nine - Online, Cultivate Gallery, London

2024 Mixtape No.7 - Online, Cultivate Gallery, London

2023 What We Did This Summer - Online, Cultivate Gallery, London

2022 Mixtape No.1/2/3/4 - Online, Cultivate Gallery, London

2022 ThreexThree Part Five - Online, Cultivate Gallery, London

2022 Burst - Online, Cultivate Gallery, London

2022 lmpart - Online, Cultivate Gallery, London

2022 Book - Online, Cultivate Gallery, London

2022 Deflect - Online, Cultivate Gallery, London

2021 Saturation - Online, Cultivate Gallery, London

2021 Alright? - Online, Cultivate Gallery, London

2021 Still - Online, Cultivate Gallery, London

2021 Next - Online, Cultivate Gallery, London

2020 Step Istanbul, ArtOn Gallery, Istanbul

2020 Eternal Summer, ArtOn Gallery, Istanbul

2020 Face-to-Face Self-Portrait, 42 Maslak, Istanbul

2019 Artist 2019, Tüyap, Istanbul

2018 Artist 2018, Tüyap, Istanbul

2017 Group Exhibition, Gallery 44A, Istanbul, Turkey

2010 Ambiguous Situations, Yüksel Sabancı Art Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey

2003 3rd International Student Triennial, Valide-i Atik Complex, Istanbul, Turkey

2002 New Proposals New Suggestions 9, Borusan Art Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey

2002 1st Antalya Painting Festival Exhibition, Antalya, Turkey