Yener PINARBAŞ

Grünberger Strasse 190 No 150335395Giessen /Gemanymobile: +90 0536 422 30 7301758809712e-mail: ypinarbas19@hotmail.com

1971 Istanbul-TURKEY1989 Şişli High School – graduate1991 – 1992 Compulsory Military Service

EDUCATION HISTORY2008-2009 Justus-Liebig University Giessen/Germany,

Institute of Art Education (with student exchange program)2007-2008 Marmara University,Institute of EducationScience, Department of Fine Arts Education,Master Degree Program for Art Education.2006 International Summer Academy of Fine Arts Salzburg / AustriaShirin Neshat & Shoja Azari, Film-Video-Media Workshop. Scholarship with Austrian Kültür Office.Guiliam Bijl, Installation (Room Installation, Object Art and Mixed Media)

Workshop. Scholarship with jury of “Association of the Friends of the International Summer Academy of Fine Arts in Salzburg”.Marmara University Faculty of Fine Arts,Department of Sculpture (In 2004 I graduated with a top grade.)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE2007-2008 Art instructor at Nesin Fondation , Çatalca /İstanbul.2007 Art Teacher at Aci Kollage /İstanbul.2005-2006 Periodic Art Work with refugee children at the Crimean Memorial .2005 Participated as an artist assistant in the 9th Istanbul Biennial.2002 Istanbul University Turkish Sea Research Foundation.Restoration of the skeleton of a whale and recreating missing pieces2001 Assistant in the production of the movie “Merdiven” created by the Turkish artist Gülsün Karamustafa.1993-1999 Gürpen Tekstil A.Ş Worked in the Import department

EXHIBITIONS

2009 ‘’Künstlerische Projecte’’ Giessen in 50 Jahren. Giessen /Germany2008 ‘’Truths and Mirages’’ Video Art from Turkey, Sofia-Bulgaria.

27 th Contemporary Artists İstanbul Exhibition2007 10 th International İstanbul Bienial ‘’Gece Gezenler’’ video selection.2006 International Summer Academy of Fine Arts in Salzburg-Austria

Exhibition of “Guiliam Bijl ,Instalattıon Workshop “ 2006 The 25 th Contemporary Artists İstanbul Exhibition.2006 “Essay” My second personal exhibition in the Faculty of

Architecture of İstanbul Technical Universtiy.2005- 15 th İstanbul Art Exhibitions “Artist”.İstanbul- Ekim Geçidi” Exhibitions. Galery X, Beyoğlu.İstanbul

- 17 th International Biennial of Humour and Satire in the Arts Gabrova-Bulgaria

- “Bizsiz” Contemporary Art Exhibition.İstanbul2004 Faculty of Fine Arts of Marmara University- Graduation

Exhibition.First Personal Exhibition in Turkish-American University Association.2002 “Water-Mind-Journeys” M.U. Fine Art Faculty.2001 “Les Portes d’Istanbul” M.U.Fine Art Faculty.2000 “7 Sergi -7 Galeri” Exhibition. Organized by Marmara University.

MEMBERSHIP WITH ASSOCIATIONS2005 Membership with Association of Sculptors 2002 Membership with Istanbul European Choir 2001 Membership with Turkish – American University Association

Foreign Languages : English (Advanced)

German (Beginner)

Work samples

VİS İT WİTH SELF PORTE İT,2009, a portreit made of visa stamps (one for each day and post- it size)…Questioning the possibilitiy of existence limited to 90 days by a visum.

Global Cris Map II.Installation –Performance,2009, 200 x 200cm Metal Plac and candles.a world map made of candles.Ethnic-Religious disagreements,Wars,Hunger and Poverty,Ekonomic Crisis,Climate Changing…

Global Cris Map I İnstalation-Performance ,2008,Wood,Matches, Fire,150 x110 cm A world map by matches is going to fire very easy…

Once there was, once there wasn’t…

Video, DVD, 2007, 5 min. As human beings, we all question the secret of life and the reasons we are alive; this questioning gave birth to mythology, religions, science, philosophy and art. Answers to many questions were searched for using these disciplines… In every historical period, in every society, be it through science or through faith, similar or different opinions produced different answers to the existential questions. We learn and instinctively feel that everything I the universe runs into everything else, that shapes repeat themselves by different means, the big bang theory, the reflection of the macrocosmos in the microcosmos, parallel universes, that life began in the water… Whether we are aware of it or not, the secret is whispered into our ears from our childhood until now: “Once upon a time…”

Once there was, once there wasn’t…Video, DVD, 2007, 5 min. Please see The DVD 1

FREE THROW

• DVD,2007, 8’Two videos to be shown in two different channels, simultaneously and next to one another. The movies will be shown on two screens such as to allow visitors to pass between the two, in accordance with the room or corridor. The distance between the screens will be determined according to the dimensions of the place of exposition. These actions wich I particularly abstracts brins togather the the echoes of meaning from May Day to Edward Said,from streets to hip hop culture,from resistance to underground…

HUMAN RESOURCES 2

30 x 40 cm, 11 photographs. 2007

The Human Resources supplements of certain newspapers, titles of certain news articles and advertisements appearing in these supplements, toys. An ironic approach to the titles and content of advertisements and news found in the Human Resources pages The Human Resources pages are places where broken toys and childhood dreams concerning future jobs are buried.

Human Resources2007, 30 x 40 cm, 11 photographs

Human Resources2007, 30 x 40 cm, 11 photographs.

Human Resources2007, 30 x 40 cm, 11 photographs.

Human Resources2007, 30 x 40 cm, 11 photographs.

REJECTION

Video 5. DVD ,2’45’’ 2006In March 2006, the Dutch conculate of İstanbul informed me via a latter in Dutch that my application for a tourist’s visa had been refused.That text written in Dutch represents the isolation not only of my own Turkish,Artist,Male,Muslim, etc self but also of the political, social, etc. İsolation of the geography I live in.I read this text in front of the wall of the consulate’s bulding with Turkish phonetics as I would have read a text in Turkish.The result is a cacaphony which makes no sense either in Dutch or in Turkish.

RejectionVideo . DVD, 7’43’’ 2006Please see the DVD

FULL METAL FLAG

Metal Relief, 2006, 60x 90 cm.

A name reminiscent of Stenly Kubric’s movie

‘Full Metal Jacket’. An ironical approach to

America’s Foreign policy.

Full Metal Flag

2006 Metal relief 60 x 90 cm.

PLAY Sculpture Arrangement , Metal,240 x240x110cm

2004

Reinterparation of a chess set in the form of

sculptures. It is interactive but the pieces are

heavy enough to make playing difucult, a

referance to the intellectual side of the game…

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2004Interactive Sculpture ArrangementMetal240 x 240 x 110 cm.

Play 1

2004Interactive Sculpture ArrangementMetal240 x 240 x 110 cm. INDEX

Play 1

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Looking for the Master

2003, 70x100 cm.Copy of 5 Grotesk Figures by

Leonardo da Vinci and a plaster bust inspired by

By these. Mixed Materials.

This drawings can be said to contain a portrait of

The master himself.Can we say that a sixth figure

contained in the bust ?

Looking forthe Master

2003

70 x 100 cm.Copy of 5

Grotesques Figures

ByDa Vinci

And a plaster Bust İnpired by

These.

Mixed materials

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Turkish Art Anually 2006

Radikal (Newspaper)

“Genç Sanat” 2005Art Magazine

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Critic of Art by Ahu Antmen in the “Radikal” Newspaper

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(...) From this point of wiew, “Whithout” is from the outset a positive exposition. It brings together near to forty young artists using disciplines ranging from sculpture to photography, video to insallations and aiming to question the limits separating Me from You, Us from Them. How profoundly this problem was investigated can be put into question, moreover it is difficult to find a consistent line of thought or to get a feeling of completeness in the generally scattered atmosphere of the expositon. A few of the works which have stuck in my memory are:Onur Serdar’s satire of the EU question in “Let’s Drink to the EU”, Beste Erener’s reflections on the consequences and meaning of war in our day, Başak Doğan’s installations investigating the close/far relationship between art and the theory of art, and “Camera Obscura” by Yener Pınarbaş, approaching the interest that artists have in photography in an almost ironical way.

Critic of Art by Ahu Antmen in the “Radikal” Newspaper

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Critic of Art by Ahu Antmen in the “Radikal” Newspaper