NATIS (b. in Nicosia, 1986)
ARTIST NAMES / HETERONYMS / PSEUDONYMS
Hasan Aksaygin (HA), Hank Yan Agassi (HYA), Jhad, and Hasso Weiss Ehrenwerth (Upcoming)
EDUCATION (HA) 2022 - ... Doctor of Philosophy in Art (Ph.D.), Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Hamburg 2016 - 2018 Master of Arts (MA), Universität der Künste, Art in Context, Berlin 2010 - 2015 Diplom (BA/MA), Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin, Painting, Berlin 2005 - 2009 Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA), Marmara University Faculty of Fine Arts, Painting, Istanbul
EXHIBITIONS
Group Exhibitions
2022 Disappearing 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 dialog with Leman S. Darıcıoğlu, DEPO, Istanbul (HYA)
2019 The Relative Naive, Galerie Waisser Elefant, Berlin (HYA)
2019 SINIR/SIZ, Istanbul LGBTI+ Pride, Istanbul (HYA)
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)
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)
Solos
2022 Frenk Bey, Fortress and the Thing, NIMAC, Nicosia (HA)
2015 JHAD, GSL Project, Berlin (HA & Jhad)
2012 Methodical Inquires #3, Polistar, Istanbul (HA)
Curatorial
2017 Co-Curator, The Lightest Shade of Aflatoon, Schwules Museum*, Berlin (HA)
RESIDENCIES and PROGRAMS 2023-2025 BPA // Berlin program for artists 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 PRESENTASTIONS 2022 Artist Talk, NIMAC, Nicosia 2021 (Winter Semester) 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 Symposium: New Queer Positionings in Media Art & Theory, HfBK Braunschweig (HA) 2016 Power of Myth and Homoerotic Desire," 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 (Natis) 2022 Frenk Bey, Fortress and the Thing, published by NIMAC, Nicosia (HA, edited by Natis)