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Zeynep Beler

Interdisciplinary artist

Zeynep Beler is an Istanbul-based interdisciplinary artist. Her practice engages various methodologies and disciplines - chiefly painting and photography - to explore the ambiguous and playful domain where they overlap with one another and the virtual via Internet vernacular. Among workshops and residencies, she participated in are AiR Turkey-Scandinavia Connections in Tranås, Sweden and Gastatelier des Landes Nordrhein Westfalen by invitation of the city of Düsseldorf. Recent exhibitions include “Tree, Simulacrum, Sea, Moon” (Borusan Contemporary, 2017), “Beachcomber” (solo) (Krank Art Gallery, 2018), “Invisible Threads” (solo) (Karantina Mekan, 2019)  and “We are in this together, we are not one and the same” (Lyon, 2019). She is also half of the artist duo µnme that she formed with Emin Yu in 2017 and part of the initiative sub in Çanakkale.