#ARTFORMS
Video, installation, drawing, painting
#MATERIALS / MEDIA
mixed media
#GUIDING INTERESTS
Serra Tansel’s practice engages with the ways in which we settle into our world, our cities, our homes and our bodies and the structures, the relationships we establish within them. She makes use of a wide range of aesthetics and media such as billboards, shop signs and stock images in order to twist, undermine and infiltrate into mainstream cultures and narratives.
She is a member of the collectives Hayırlı Evlat they founded with İpek Hamzaoğlu and Gizem Karakaş; Makkam they founded with Alper Oruç, Daniela Nofal and Yamen Makdad; and Bonnington Café that has been running since the 1980’s.
#SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
HIGHER, Serra Tansel, Pilot, Istanbul, 2020
Heavens!, Bilsart, Istanbul and Battersea Arts Centre, London, 2019 (Funded by SAHA and Arts Council England)
Billboard 8171, Annin Arts, London, 2018
Sera Tansel Unlimited, noshowspace, London, 2015 (Funded by Arts Council England and Umur)
Su İkramımızdır with Duval Timothy at Polistar, Istanbul, 2014 (Funded by Step Beyond)
#SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019
Group show with Bernd Oppl and William Mackrell, with a text by Elisabeth Molin in Zona Mista, London
Sinopale 7, Sinop
2018
Love and the Ocean , LUX Scotland’s guest-curated programme for Eden Court, selected by artist Frances Davis, Glasgow
Make It Hot. Cool It Down. Turn It Over with Emily Sarsam curated by TopSoil, Safehouse, London
2017
2016
Freundschaftsspiel Istanbul : Freiburg, Museum für Neue Kunst, Freiburg
Artists’ Film Biennial: Selected by artist Ahmet Ögüt, ICA, London
2015
Dünya Döner (World Döner / Revolves) at Museum aan de Stroom, Antwerp
Γ Λ Υ Κ Ι Α Μ Ο Υ with Joanna Peace at Snehta, Athens
A performative talk with Joanna Peace ‘At least some sentiments were expressed, if not all’, CCA, Glasgow
2014
‘Left Unsaid’ curated by Didem Yazıcı, Kreuzberg Pavillion, Berlin
2012
Chance Symphony at BP: Tate Together Families Event, Tate Britain, London
#Residencies
2017 – 2018
GROUNDED Battersea Arts Centre Agents of Creative Change programme set up by Amy Pennington , Growing Underground, London
2015
Air Antwerpen, Antwerp
ParaSite School Residency set up by Felipe Castelblanco at Royal Academy, London
SNEHTA Residency, Athens (Funded by Step Beyond)
2012
AIR Mini Residency, on public art, London
The Drift Project, on performance art, Rio
#FORMATION
2007-2011 BA, Central Saint Martins, Fine Art 3D Department, London
#BIO
2 March 1989. Born in Istanbul, Turkey.
Currently lives in London
#LINKS