Sibel Kocakaya
Born in İstanbul, 1986
Lives in Bern and works in Basel
Education
2020 Zürcher Hochschule der Künste / Fine Arts (MA)
2015 Marmara University, Institute of Fine Arts, Division of Painting (MA)
2014 École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts Lyon, Art Opinion ( I.E.P) 2009 Marmara University, Faculty of Fine Arts, Department of Photography (BA)
2022 Project Contribution, City of Bern Department of Culture
2021 Covid Work Scholarship, City of Bern Department of Culture
2021 Nomination, Aeschlimann-Corti Scholarship, Kunsthaus Pasquart Biel
2020-2021 Studio Grant, What’s Next _Studio by City of Zurich / Migros Culture Percentage/ Zurich University of Arts
Residencies/ Projects
2022
Verein Walzwerk Artist in Residence, Münchenstein, Basel-CH
2020-2021
What’s Next_ Studio program by ZHdK/ Z-Kubator and Stadt Zürich
2019
October School in Mexico, participation by Zürcher Hochschule der Künste Hosted by Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City- Mexico
2017
Bauhaus Open Stage: Performative Architectonics, participation by Hochschule der Künste Bern, Dessau-DE
2015
The Loft, by the invitation of Belgian collector Alain Servais, Brussels-BE
2014
residency.ch, PROGR, Bern-CH
Solo Exhibitions/ Performances
2024
“Utterly Shameless Forms” Dientsgebäude Art Space Zurich, Zurich-CH
2023
“Earth and Structure” Mixer Gallery, İstanbul-TR
2021
“Linear Intervals” with Bendicht Gertsch, Galerie Bernhard Bischoff & Partner, Bern-CH
“Continous Transitions” Performance, Kunsthaus Pasquart Biel/Bienne-CH
2019
“Dwelling” KW Performances, Kunstraum Waldhaus, Zürich- CH
2018
“Presencing” #2 Zurich, #3 Basel, #4 Geneva, ACT Performance Festival- Switzerland “Presencing” #1, Excentricites IX, ISBA, Besançon-FR
“Interspace” Studio Sansano- AFF Space, Bern-CH
2017
“Certain Space” performance, HKB CAP performances at Shnit Short film Festival, PROGR Aula, Bern-CH
“Fragmentary Gaps” Krethlow Galerie, Bern-CH
2016
“Replace” The Kabine exhibition at Galerie Lehrerzimmer in PROGR, Bern-CH
“In-Between” PROGR Window Exhibition, Bern-CH
2015
“Binary Appearances”, Galerie Dukan, Paris-FR
2013
“Untitled (Milk)”, IPA Platform for Young Performance Artists, Salt Galata, Istanbul-TR
“New Perceptions - Body and Boundaries ”, Mixer, Istanbul-TR
Selected Group Exhibitions/ Performances
2023
“On Paper” Galery Bernhard Bischoff & Partner, Bern-CH
2023
“BYOB BSL Edition” Video Festival, TransBona Hall, Baselland-CH
2022
“SWAB” Barcelona Art Fair, Barcelona-ES
“Contemporary Istanbul ”Art Fair, Istanbul-TR
2021
“Kapriolen der Kunst” Aeschlimann Corti-Grant 2021, Kunsthaus Pasquart Biel/ Bienne-CH
2020
“ReRepetition” Shedhalle, Zürich-CH
2019
“Blended” Mixer Gallery, İstanbul-TR
“Bing Bang, Goodbye” Kunstraum Waldhaus, Zürich-CH
“Trees of Their Land” Center of Photography “March”, Moscow-RU
2018
“Over and Over” Mixer Gallery, İstanbul- TR .
“Art Stage Singapore” Singapore-SG
2017
“Open Studio Performance Space-Performance Stage: ‘Substanz’ HKB CAP, Bauhaus Dessau-DE
“Guest: Unexpected” Mixer Gallery, İstanbul-TR
“lAbiRynt Festival Neuer Kunst” Frankfurt Oder- Germany & Slubice-PL
“Contemporary Istanbul” Art Fair, İstanbul- TR
“WHOSE (ART) HISTORY?” Parvus Collective- Uniq Gallery, İstanbul-TR
“MecTo/Yer” Performance by Sibel Kocakaya and Sasha Puchkova at PROGR, Bern-CH
2016
“In and Out” Sibel Kocakaya and Koja Coyote, Şekerbank Açıkekran New Media Art Gallery, Istanbul-TR
“Solstice” Expo Collective #4, Taverne Gutenberg, Lyon- France ‘Key Stone’ / ‘Kilit Taşı’, REM Art Space, Istanbul-TR
2015
“Waving The Piano Keys” Şekerbank Açıkekran New Media Art Gallery at Contemporary, Istanbul-TR
“Transparency of Evil or Looking to The Other”, Kare Art Gallery, Istanbul-TR
2013
“Bodily Limits”, Sibel Kocakaya and Christelle Familiari, Şekerbank Açıkekran New Media Art Gallery, Istanbul -TR
“Borders Orbits 13-14”, Siemens Sanat, Istanbul-TR