Who is Canseven Bahçeci? (1974 – Hatay)
Canseven Bahçeci was born in Hatay in 1974.
She completed her primary and secondary education in Hatay. In 2005, she received 8 years of painting training at a painting workshop in Antakya. In 2014, she opened her own studio. Since 2014, she has been a member of the Aalen Culture and Art Association. As part of social entrepreneurship projects, she voluntarily gave painting courses to parents in village schools in Hatay. Her works are in private collections both in Turkey and abroad, and have also been used as cover images in numerous books and magazines.
Art Perspective;
For the artist, painting is not merely about colors transferred to the canvas; it is a philosophy of life that carries the spirit of civilizations, beliefs, and experiences. The artist, who deeply feels the streets that thousands of people walk every day with ordinary emotions “with an eye that no one else can see,” places the deep-rooted architectural and historical fabric of Antakya at the center of her creative process. In this artistic vision, the stone buildings that have witnessed countless social and personal events, and the door knockers and symbols on their street doors, are not simply objects. They are silent witnesses that transmit the socio-cultural structure, lifestyles, and philosophy of the people of that era to the future. According to the artist:
“Every door is a secret, privacy, trust, love, passion, and pain; behind every door, life is lived in all its nakedness.”
The artist creates himself by experiencing, feeling, and imagining the mystical and captivating effect of this precious geography. The warm-cold color contrasts he uses in his works prove that the painting is not an inanimate object. These color games, while containing the lived experiences, mystery, and secrets of the past, give his works the quality of a historical document to be inherited by the future. The artist, who defines his inner world as a “fairy tale world,” sometimes produces fantastic narratives and images with a fresh pink, sometimes a hopeful blue, and sometimes an energetic red. Blending the reality of history with the fantastic colors of imagination, it breathes the traces of the past into the spirit of today and tomorrow.
Solo Exhibitions:
2014 Canseven Painting Workshop, Antakya
2015 Hidden House ‘International Çukurova Art Days’ Antakya
2016 Hidden House ‘International Çukurova Art Days’ Antakya
Workshops:
2024 1st International Originalist Gallery Art Workshop – Adana
2025 Fırça Art Gallery, Tohumluk Foundation Painting Workshop - Antakya
2026 2nd International Originalist Gallery - Esther Gallery Art Workshop - Tarsus
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2010-2018 Istanbul - Ankara - Izmir Hatay Days
2017 Galeri Abay, 'October 29th' Group Exhibition - Istanbul
-2018 Sepa Art Gallery Group Exhibition - Ankara
2018 Emin Antique Art House Group Exhibition - Ankara
2018 Galeri Abay Group Exhibition - Bodrum
2018 Galeri Abay 'November 10th' Group Exhibition, Istanbul Maritime Museum - Istanbul
2018 Galeri Abay Istanbul Art Show Contemporary Art Fair, Hilton Istanbul Convention-Exhibition Center - Istanbul
2018 A Group of People Art Platform 1st Year Exhibition, Türkan Saylan Cultural Center - Istanbul
-2019 Galeri Abay 'Women in Life' Group Exhibition, Istanbul Maritime Museum - Istanbul
-2019 Galeri Abay ArtAnkara Contemporary Art Fair, Ato Congresium - Ankara
-2019 Galeri Mod A Group of People Art Platform 'We Face to Face' Exchange Portrait Exhibition - Istanbul
-2019 HGC Art Gallery ‘Primavera’ Group Exhibition - Bodrum
-2019 Toloman Art Gallery ‘Art Exists in Bitez’ Group Exhibition - Bodrum
-2019 Pusula Art House A Group of People Art Platform Group Exhibition - Istanbul
-2019 Toloman Art Gallery ‘8th 'Red-White' Group Exhibition - Bodrum
-2019 Galeri Soyut 'New December' Group Exhibition - Ankara
-2019 Istanbul Art Show Contemporary Art Fair '2 Hilton Istanbul Convention-Exhibition Center - Istanbul
2020 Galeri Abay Art Ankara Contemporary Art Fair, Ato Congresium - Ankara
2021 Galeri Abay Art Ankara Contemporary Art Fair, Ato Congresium - Ankara
2021 Galeri Soyut 'New December' Group Exhibition - Ankara
2022 Galeri Abay Art Ankara Contemporary Art Fair, Ato Congresium - Ankara
2022 Galeri Soyut 'New December' Exhibition - Ankara
2023 Fırça Art Gallery '20th 2023 Antakya Municipality Art Meeting Group Painting Exhibition - Antakya
2023 Fırça Art Gallery ArtAnkara Contemporary Art Fair, Ato Congresium - Ankara
2023 The 2nd Anatolian Artists Festival, New York
2024 Fırça Art Gallery ArtAnkara Contemporary Art Fair, Ato Congresium - Ankara
2024 Fırça Art Gallery ‘New Searches’ Group Exhibition – Ankara
2024 Turkish Artbeast Group Exhibition - New York
2024 Originalist Art Gallery, Culture Road Festival ‘Blossom’ Group Exhibition – Adana
2024 1st International Originalist Art Gallery Artist Residency Exhibition – Adana
2024 Originalist Art Gallery Contemporary Art Fair – Mersin
2024 Fırça Art Gallery Art Koro Group Painting Exhibition – Ankara
2025 Fırça Art Gallery ArtAnkara Contemporary Art Fair, Ato Congresium - Ankara
2025 Galeri Abay Euro Expo Art Venice Arte Fiera - Italy
2025 Humans, Humanity - Turkish House, 821 un Plaza - New York
2025 Originalist Art Gallery Art Concept Antalya Art Fair – Antalya
2025 Fırça Art Gallery Artnouva Art Fair, Ato Congresium - Ankara
2025 Fırça Art Gallery, New Searches Group Painting Exhibition – Ankara
2026 Za Gallery, ArtAnkara Contemporary Art Fair, Ato Congresium - Ankara
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