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Ali İrgin

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  • On 28 December 2025

Who is Ali İrgin? (1987-Elazığ)

Born in Arıcak, Elazığ in 1987.
Graduated from Fırat University, Faculty of Education, Department of Fine Arts Education, Painting and Art Teaching in 2012. He has held 8 solo exhibitions. He has participated in many competitive and group exhibitions, national and international art workshops.

His interviews have been published in the Culture and Art Website on Networks, Ankara Life Magazine, Anadolu Life, Anatolia Magazine, and Güney Rüzgarı Magazine. His works are included in official and private collections both domestically and internationally.
He continues his artistic work in his own studio.

Artistic Perspective;
Why Networks? Throughout my artistic journey, I was in search of a unique style through many different experiments. I was intensely striving to do what hadn’t been done, to try what hadn’t been tried. My first encounter with Networks was as follows: While preparing for a national painting competition, I created a painting depicting the struggle for life, the fight for bread, but the painting lacked an emphasis on struggle and captivity. I was tired of thinking about what to do with my unfinished painting, so I went outside the studio and sat down. While I was contemplating, I suddenly noticed a torn net in front of me. At that moment, an idea struck me, and I grabbed the torn net and ran back to the studio. I think I had found the material I was looking for. I thought about what to do with the net, and after anatomical examination, I applied it to canvas using a pressing method. In this way, I made many paintings with figures in them. Over time, I sometimes put figures inside the nets, sometimes portraits. Sometimes various animal figures appeared in the nets, sometimes I threw nets over crowds of people, sometimes debris got caught in the nets. We became so identified with the nets that it was time to give them a leading role. The nets emerged as figures, as abstract or semi-abstract compositions on canvas, painted with paint. My childhood adventure of fishing with nets continues as a hobby. My relationship with nets has shaped my art without me even realizing it. I think this is the best example of the question, “Why nets?” The “Nets” have become a beautiful example in my life of the subconscious emerging as consciousness. So, since I started creating abstract compositions with “Nets,” are the “Nets” you see now the fishing nets we know? Of course not. Although fishing nets initially shaped my art, these “Nets” have now become my art. With a new metaphor of “Nets,” I embark on an inner journey into the viewer’s emotions and thoughts. “Nets” offer you an untried, unexperienced utopia. Every viewer who sets out on this journey with “Nets” determines their own path. With “Nets,” I offer you the elixir of imagining and living in an intellectual utopia. While presenting this inner journey, I try to express it in my own style, reflecting it within a spiral of nets and networks. “Nets,” with their plastic language and style, create a separate metaphor in each composition as a figure, an image. Series and works such as “Springs Will Come Despite You,” “Nirvana,” “Infinity,” “Rhythmic Reflection,” and “Tree of Hope” are products of these emotions and thoughts.

Personal Exhibitions;
2025 8th Solo Exhibition “From Network to Cosmos” Maji Art Gallery, Istanbul
2024 7th Solo Exhibition “Reflection” Maji Art Gallery, Titanic Luxury Collection Hotel Bodrum, Muğla
2023 6th Solo Exhibition “Net Ceremony” Mira Koldaş Art Gallery, Ankara
2021 5th Solo Exhibition “Net Metaphor” Kelimat Art Gallery, Istanbul
2019 4th Solo Exhibition “Ali İrgin” ArtAntakya Contemporary Art, Anemon Hotel Antakya, Hatay
2019 3rd Solo Painting Exhibition “Net Symphony” Boho Gallery, Ankara
2018 2nd Solo Painting Exhibition “Network-Nets” Antakya Culture Center Art Gallery, Hatay
2015 “Solo Painting Exhibition” Primemall Shopping Mall Art Gallery, Antakya-Hatay

Group and Competition Exhibitions:
2025 “Group Exhibition” Maji Art Gallery, Istanbul
2025 “Group Exhibition” Maji Art Gallery, Titanic Hotel Bodrum, Muğla
2025 101st Anniversary of the Republic of Turkey Painting Competition “Honorable Mention Award” Mersin Metropolitan Municipality, Mersin
2024 “Group Exhibition” Maji Art Gallery, Istanbul
2024 “Group Exhibition” Maji Art Gallery Titanic Hotel Bodrum, Muğla
2023 “Turkey’s 100th anniversary celebration exhibition” GB Art Community Gallery New York New Jersey/USA
2023 Clio Art Fair, Turkish Modern Collective/Gb Art Community, Manhattan New York/USA
2022 “99 Works for the 99th Anniversary Republic Exhibition” Dokumapark Modern Art Gallery Kepez, Antalya
2022 New Venue Group Painting Exhibition, Kelimat Art Gallery, Istanbul
2021 Homecoming Welcome 12cm Group Painting Exhibition, Galeri Diani, Istanbul
2021 “Start22 Group Painting Exhibition”, Kelimat Art Gallery, Istanbul
2021 IAAF International Istanbul Art and Antiques Fair, Kelimat Art Gallery, Istanbul
2021 Crossroads Group Painting Exhibition, Kelimat Art Gallery, Istanbul
2021 Paper Works Group Exhibition, Kelimat Art Gallery, Istanbul
2021 Rotary Young Artists Selection 2020, “Online Exhibition” Izmir
2020 “12cm Exhibition” La Capilla Plaza Arguedas, Espana/Spain
2020 “Meeting” Group Painting Exhibition, Primemall Art Gallery Antakya, Hatay
2020 “12cm Exhibition, Mendizolan Hendaya, France
2020 “National Antikya Art Meeting” Primemall Art Gallery, Antakya/Hatay
2020 Hatay Painters Group Painting Exhibition, Primemall Art Gallery, Antakya/Hatay
2019-2020 “12cm Exhibition” Moroles Olvar Plaza 3, San Sebastian Pasaya, Espana/Spain
2019 “81st Anniversary Commemoration Group Painting Exhibition” (Boho Art Gallery event), Kastamonu Provincial Culture Center Art Gallery, Kastamonu
2019 “96th Anniversary Special Republic Exhibition”, Dokumapark Modern Art Gallery Kepez, Antalya
2019 Boho Traditional “96th 2019 “Nostalgia” Boho Gallery, Ankara
2019 “SPOILER” Group Painting Exhibition, Don Quixote Art Cafe, Istanbul
2019 “South Station” Group Painting Exhibition, MTSO Art Gallery, Mersin
2019 “South Wind” Group Painting Exhibition, Samandağ Cultural Center Art Gallery, Samandağ/Hatay
2018 “Artankara 4th Contemporary Art Fair” New Generation Painters, Collective Art Novo Academy, Ankara
2018 “Young Talents Group Painting Exhibition” ASO Art Gallery, Ankara
2017 New Generation Painters Small Works “Barcode” Exhibition ASO Art Gallery, Ankara
2017 Adana Painters Association 3rd Painting Competition “Exhibition” Adana
2017 New Generation Painters “Energy” Group Exhibition Galeri Çankaya, Ankara
2017 “Things That Have Fallen Out of Favor” Group Painting Exhibition Martyr Gülşah Güler Social Facility, Kırıkhan/Hatay
2017 45X45 Works Exhibition, Anadolu University Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences Exhibition Hall, Eskişehir
2017. 17th Şefik Bursalı Painting Competition “Exhibition” Ankara
2017 Bedriye Fidan Women and Color Painting Competition “Exhibition” Zonguldak
2016 Turkish Pharmacists Association 60th Anniversary Painting Competition “Exhibition” Istanbul
2016 Saküder 10th Anniversary Painting Competition “Exhibition” Ankara
2016 “Small Works Plastic Arts Exhibition” Primemall Shopping Mall Art Gallery, Antakya
2015 Yunus Ensari II. Painting Competition “Exhibition” Ankara
2011 Kahramanmaraş Sütçü İmam University Faculty of Fine Arts 8th Painting Competition “Exhibition” Kahramanmaraş

Workshops:
2025 “Inception Volume II Painting Workshop” Maji Art Gallery & Titanic Hotel, Bodrum
2022 “International Antalya Painting Workshop”, Kepez Municipality, Antalya
2022 “Köroğlu Art Workshop”, Koru Hotel, Bolu
2019 “Art Workshop” Hatay Metropolitan Municipality, Antakya/Hatay
2019 “Art Workshop” Türkoğlu Municipality, Kahramanmaraş

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