NATIS (b.in Nicosia, 1986)
ARTIST NAMES: Hasan Aksaygin (Lgl. Name) (HA), Hank Yan Agassi (HYA), Jhad, and Hasso Weiss Ehrenwerth (Upcoming)
EDUCATION 2022 - ... Ph.D., Supervisor: Astrid Mania, Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Hamburg 2016 - 2018 MA, Supervisor: Jörg Heiser Art in Context, Universität der Künste, Berlin
2010 - 2015 Diploma (BA/MA), Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin, Painting, Berlin
2005 - 2009 BFA, Marmara University Faculty of Fine Arts, Painting, Istanbul
SCHOLARSHIP 2022-2025 Doctoral Scholarship for Scientific-Artistic Research, Claussen-Simon-Stiftung Hamburg
EXHIBITIONS Duo Exhibition 2023 PLEATS, with Virgil B/G Taylor, and FOLDS, a reading series, with Onur Çimen,Patty Nash, Ashkan Sepahvand, Rapha Linden and İz Öztat BPA// Raum, featured by BAW 2023, Berlin (HA)
Solo Exhibitions 2022 Frenk Bey, Fortress and the Thing, NIMAC, Nicosia (HA) 2015 JHAD, GSL Project, Berlin (HA & Jhad) 2012 Methodical Inquires #3, Polistar, Istanbul (HA)
Selected Groups 2022 Vanishing Act Act, Queer Arts Festival, Sum Gallery, Vancouver (HYA) 2021 Angst, Keine Angst / Fear, No Fear / 问你惊未, Times Art Center, Berlin (HYA) 2021 Die Balkone, collaboration with Hannah Hurtzig, Berlin (HA) 2021 Tempo Incognito: On Flows, Rhythm, and Movement, in a artistic conversation with Leman Sevda Daricioglu DEPO, Istanbul (HYA) 2019 The Relative Naive, Galerie Waisser Elefant, Berlin (HYA) 2019 SINIR/SIZ, Istanbul LGBTI+ Pride, Istanbul (HA) 2018 Conlang, Seen by #10, Museum für Fotografie, Berlin (HA & HYA) 2017 Reframing Worlds, nGbK, Berlin (HA) 2017 Shadow Waiting for the Full Moon, OBROŃCÓW STALINGRADU, Sczcecin (HA) 2017 ğ - das weiche g: queere Formen migrieren, Schwules Museum*, Berlin (HA) 2017 Bodylandscapingtime, nGbK, Berlin (HA) 2015 JHAD, GSL Project, Berlin (HA) 2013 Bufferzone: Checkpoint, Apartment Project, DEPO, Istanbul (HA) 2011 Responding to the New Moon, Tanja Wagner Gallery, Berlin (HA) 2010 AH OH, Galerie NON, Istanbul (HA) 2009 Borders-Orbits 06, Siemens Sanat, Istanbul (HA)
RESIDENCIES and PROGRAMS 2023-2025 BPA // Berlin Program for Artists | Berlin 2022 Project Space at NiMAC | Nicosia 2022 Queer Art Festival at Griffin art Projects | Vancouver 2013 Buffer Zone at Apartment Project | Nicosia, Berlin, Istanbul
LECTURES and PRESENTATIONS 2022 Artist Talk, NIMAC, Nicosia 2021 (WS) Seminar: "Making Art by Saying, Doing Art as Another," Muthesius Kunsthochschule, Kiel (HA) 2020 "The Little Phanorious," HOPSCOTCH READING ROOM, Berlin (HA & HYA) 2019 "New Materialism as Empowering Art Practice," Muthesius Kunsthochschule, Kiel (HA) 2017 Artist Talk, Schwules Museum*, Berlin (HA) 2017 Artist Talk in Symposium: New Queer Positionings in Media Art & Theory, HfBK Braunschweig (HA) 2016 "Power of Myth and Homoerotic Desire" in Inside/Outside: Queer Networks in Transnational Perspective, Leibniz University, Hannover (HA) 2012 Artist Talk, Polistar, Istanbul (HA)
PUBLICATIONS 2023 Banality of Good, in Skulpi Magazine issue #5, Berlin 2022 Frenk Bey, Fortress and the Thing, published by NIMAC, Nicosia