Who is Birgül Özçelikci Taşören? (1969-Ankara)
Birgül Özçelikci Taşören was born in Ankara. She graduated from the Department of Painting at Hacettepe University, Faculty of Fine Arts in 2000. In 2002, she worked for 5.5 years as a lecturer at Sivas Cumhuriyet University, Faculty of Education, Department of Fine Arts Education, Division of Art Teaching. In 2007, she began working as a tenured Visual Arts Teacher under the Ministry of National Education. Since 2010, she has been continuing her career at Kocaeli Fine Arts High School.
The artist has held 9 solo exhibitions and has participated in many group exhibitions both nationally and internationally during and after her education. She was selected for exhibition six times in the Şefik Bursalı Painting Competition. Her works were officially exhibited at the “20th Istanbul Art Fair – Artist 2010” at the TÜYAP Fair and Congress Center. Her artworks are included in the collections of the Rectorate of Cumhuriyet University in Sivas, the İnönü University Museum in Malatya, Kandemir Insurance in Kocaeli, and the Çankaya Municipality Contemporary Arts Center.
In 2017, she completed her master’s degree at Gazi University, Institute of Fine Arts, Department of Composite Arts, under the supervision of Prof. Nur GÖKBULUT, with a thesis titled “Processing and Exemplifying the Theme of Ballet with a Postmodernist Approach”. In the same year, she contributed as one of the authors of the textbooks “Basic Art Education 9” and “Imaginative Painting 10”, prepared by the Ministry of National Education for Fine Arts High Schools.
In 2019, under the coordination of the Ministry of National Education’s General Directorate of Teacher Training and Development, she served as a guidance teacher for Kocaeli Fine Arts High School students in the illustration of Turkish fairy tales titled “Cırrık”, “Sabır Taşı”, “Kaplumbağa Yavrusu” and “Altmış Akıllı Yetmiş Fikirli”, to be used in primary and preschool education. In 2020, she illustrated the Dede Korkut story “The Plundering of Salur Kazan’s House”, also for high schools, under the same directorate.
She began the Proficiency in Art Program in the Department of Plastic Arts at Kocaeli University, Institute of Social Sciences, in 2021, and took a break from it in 2024. Between 2016 and 2023, she served as a subject expert and head of the commission for the “Basic Art Education 9” textbook within the Visual Arts Textbook Commission of Fine Arts High Schools, under the Ministry of National Education’s General Directorate of Teacher Training and Development.
Currently, she continues to teach at Kocaeli Fine Arts High School and carries on her painting practice at her own studio (Atölye BİTA), while also participating in national and international exhibition organizations. She is also a member of the Istanbul Ex-libris Association.
Art Persfective;
The core of the artist's aesthetic understanding lies in the importance of emotional communication as a possible alternative to contemporary art. To address this theme, the concept of “classical ballet” was explored within the realm of plastic arts, stripped of its kitsch visual elements by moving toward a de-figurative approach.
This approach emphasizes replacing the image of the object with the object itself and alienating it from its original function. Such a conceptual inquiry defines her artistic identity. Based on the findings of her thesis "Processing and Exemplifying the Theme of Ballet with a Postmodernist Approach" and selected experimental works from her personal artistic process, her analysis aims to demonstrate how ballet can be approached from a different perspective- liberated from the ballerina, becoming "more ballerina than the ballerina" through the originality of that freedom.
Solo Exhibitions:
2023 “Thousands of Years or a Few Seconds Ago”, Kocaeli University Faculty of Fine Arts,
Antre Exhibition Hall, November 09-28, KOCAELİ
2020 ArtAntAkyA International Online Contemporary Art Fair,
Solo Exhibition, www.artantakya.com 1-10 December 2020 shared.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juaMYqpSN5E&ab_channel=ArtAntAkyA
and https://artantakya.com/en/online-exhibitions/birgul-ozcelikci-tasoren/, still ongoing.
2017 “Contact”, State Fine Arts Gallery Hasan Rıza Exhibition Hall, ANKARA
2015 “Respect for Degas; Songür Ballet” Vehbi Koç Foundation
Fort Otosan Culture and Social Life Center Art Gallery, KOCAELİ
2013 “Songür Ballet in Lines”, Art in the Office/15 Kandemir Insurance, KOCAELİ
2010 “Mixed” GOSB. Teknopark A.Ş. Exhibition Hall, KOCAELI
2008 “Colors and Forms” Sabanci Cultural Site Exhibition Hall, KOCAELI
2006 “Another Sivas” Buruciye Madrasah, SIVAS
2001 “Waiting” Tumanna Cafe Art House, ÜRGÜP
International Exhibitions;
2023 BİAF2023 Busan International Art Festival A Composite Exhibition 20.10.2023,
Tongmyong University, SOUTH KOREA
2019 “Avant Garde Approaches” Group Exhibition, Desing Festa Gallery, W 2A, Tokyo-JAPAN
2018 International Group Exhibition and Workshop, Clup Unesco Pıraeus and Island Municipality
Gallery of Chalkida Evia Island, Athens, GREECE
2018 Exhiport, “Les Travaux Sur Papier”, Galerie Da Vinci Art, Pinelo Art Gallery, Paris FRANCE
2017 “Did You Know?”, Boris Georgiev Art Gallery, Varna, BULGARIA
2017 Berlin Yunus Emre Institute Group Exhibition, Berlin, GERMANY
2017 IV. International Athens Art and Art Education Symposium / IV. International Athens Art and
Art Education Symposium, Pinelo Art Gallery, Athens, GREECE
2017 II. International Thessaloniki Contemporary Art Festival, Pinelo Art Gallery, GREECE
2015 Bridge-VII, City Art Gallery, Plovdiv BULGARIA
2014 Looking at the World Through the Eyes of a Woman, Turkish House, 303 E. Durham Rd. Suite F, Cary NC USA
2014 “An Evening Celebrating Turkish Artists”, Sasha’s Living with Style, Long Beach, CA, USA
2013 Looking at the World Through the Eyes of a Woman”, Manhattan Beach Community Church CA, USA
Selected Group Exhibitions;
2024 ART NOVA Art Fair, Ataman Art Gallery, October 17-20, ATO Congresium, ANKARA
2024 October Passage 23 Interdisciplinary Exhibition, Vehbi Koç Foundation
Gölcük Culture and Social Life Center, October 25-November 25, KOCAELİ
2024 October Passage 23 Interdisciplinary Exhibition, State Fine Arts Gallery, October 15-22, BURSA
2024 Ataman Art Gallery Season Opening Exhibition, October 5, ANKARA
2024 “March 8 International Women’s Day”, SASAV Exhibition Hall, ISTANBUL
2024 “Reflection of the Century Exhibition”, Yalova University Faculty of Art and Design,
Yalova City Museum, 09-14 January, YALOVA
2023 “Baş Buluş Print Meet-2023 IV. International Original Printmaking
Exhibition Special for the 100th Anniversary of the Republic”
05-18 December, Edirne Provincial Directorate of Culture and Tourism
Deveci Han Cultural Center Hayri Çizer Exhibition Hall, EDİRNE
2023 Bursa October Parade for the 100th Anniversary of the Republic,
22nd Year Interdisciplinary Exhibition, State Fine Arts Gallery, 17-27 October, BURSA
2023 Turkish-Japanese Friendship Plastic Arts Exhibition for the 100th Anniversary of our Republic,
25 October, ANKARA
2023 My Country “Turkey” Project Exhibition, September 09, Doart Gallery, ISTANBUL
2023 “Ata Man Art Gallery Opening Exhibition”, May 06, ANKARA
2022 “Bas Buluş III. International Original Printmaking Exhibition”, Trakya University,
Faculty of Fine Arts, October 10-26, EDİRNE
2022 Ahmet Yakupoğlu Memorial International Juried Mixed Exhibition, Kütahya Dumlupınar University
Faculty of Fine Arts, Phrygia Exhibition Hall, October 03-10, KÜTAHYA
2022 “OPİA”, Doart Gallery, October 10-October 03, ISTANBUL
2022 8th Artankara Contemporary Art Fair, March 10-13, New Generation Art Area, ATO Congresıum
Congress and Exhibition Center, ANKARA
2021 “Urban Contact Mixed Exhibition”, Eğrelti Otu Plastic Arts Group, Moni-Bostan Gölbaşı Campus,
November 13, ANKARA
2020 “Free Zone 2 Freezone”, İzmit Municipality Art Gallery, KOCAELİ
2019 “What’s Happening? Group 117+”, Vehbi Koç Foundation Ford Otosan
Gölcük Culture and Social Life Center, KOCAELİ
2019 4th International Entrepreneurship and Social Sciences Congress
(4th International EMİ Entrepreneurship and Social Sciences Congress), Nişantaşı University, İSTANBUL
2019 EYFOR X, International Juried Group Exhibition, ANTALYA
2019 “No Exit Painting Exhibition”, Fern Otu Plastic Arts Group, Gallery Akdeniz, ANKARA
2019 “October Passage 18”, Bursa State Fine Arts Gallery, BURSA
2019 UBEST, 1st International Science, Education, Art and Technologies Symposium,
Dokuz Eylul University, Buca Faculty of Education, IZMIR
2018 “October Pass 17”, Bursa State Fine Arts Gallery, BURSA
2018 “Masumiyet Innocence Workshop”, Değirmendere Town Art House, KOCAELI
2018 “I. Interdisciplinary Art Symposium, Artsürem Science Art Center ANKARA
2018 KSI/Cappadocia Art Initiative, II. International Plastic Arts Exhibition, Güray Museum, NEVŞEHİR
2018 “Free Zone”, Çankaya Municipality, Contemporary Arts Center, ANKARA
2017 “Republic 2017” Culture and Tourism Directorate, Fine Arts Gallery,
Historical Train Station Building Exhibition Hall, KOCAELI
2017 “October Pass 16”, Bursa State Fine Arts Gallery, BURSA
2017 “45×45” Works Exhibition, ESKİŞEHİR
2016 “4YOL”, Ofiste Sanat 28, Kandemir Sigorta, KOCAELİ
2016 “Ankara Young Artists Meeting”, Ankara State Fine Arts Gallery,
Mustafa Ayaz Foundation Museum, ANKARA
2016 “October Pass 15”, Bursa State Fine Arts Gallery, BURSA
2016 “Anatolia from the 15x15 Window”, A.Ü. Faculty of Communication Sciences Exhibition Hall, ESKİŞEHİR
2015 “Autobiography / Mask, Shadow”, Başkent University Gallery Başkent, ANKARA
2015 “Mixed Works”, Turuncu Sanat Evi, ANKARA
2015 “October Pass 14”, Bursa State Fine Arts Gallery, BURSA
2015 Gazi University, Painting and Sculpture Museum, ANKARA
2014 “Şefik Bursalı Painting Competition 14″ State Painting and Sculpture Museum, ANKARA
2012 “Şefik Bursalı Painting Competition 12″ State Painting and Sculpture Museum, ANKARA
2010 “20th Istanbul Art Fair-Artist 2010”, TÜYAP Fair and Congress Center, İSTANBUL
2009 “Şefik Bursalı Painting Competition 9″ State Painting and Sculpture Museum, ANKARA
2006 “Şefik Bursalı Painting Competition 6″ State Painting and Sculpture Museum, ANKARA
2004 “Şefik Bursalı Painting Competition 3″ State Painting and Sculpture Museum, ANKARA
2002 “Şefik Bursalı Painting Competition 2″ State Painting and Sculpture Museum, ANKARA
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