Mehmet Dere

About

Mehmet Dere was born in 1979 in İzmir. He graduated from Dokuz Eylül University Faculty of Fine Arts, Department of Painting. Mehmet Dere’s studio, located in İzmir – Gürçeşme, also hosts the contemporary art initiative 49A, of which he is the founder. This studio has been founded with the pursuit to create a space where contemporary art can exist in the rhythm of everyday life, open itself up to the world, and interact with its environment. 49A, which is the construct of a visible and sustainable tangible space, thus aims to ensure the accessibility and possibilities of production and host other people’s projects in a playfield. The artist, who has opened his first solo exhibitions in this space, is also a longtime member of the K2 Contemporary Art Center in İzmir and has participated in numerous group exhibitions at the center. Additionally Dere has participated in “When Ideas Become Crime” curated by Halil Altındere at the Tütün Deposu in 2010; “Port İzmir 2, Silence_Storm, International Contemporary Art Triennial”; and the “I am Here, The Time is Now” exhibition at Rotterdam curated by Ong Keng Sen and sponsored by the European Culture Fund in 2008. He was awarded the special prize at the “27th Contemporary Artists Exhibition” at Akbank Art Beyoğlu. In 2007, he participated in the special project realized at Santral İstanbul in the scope of the 10th İstanbul Biennial. The artist’s first comprehensive solo exhibition titled “Quid rides? De te fabula narratur.” organized at Rampa consists of a series of ironic and upfront constructs focusing on local and social memory research deriving from Turkey’s cultural history.

Mehmet Dere continues his work in Tatvan, İzmir and İstanbul. … Read More

Location: izmir, agean, Turkey
Website: http://www.derece.blogspot.com
http://derece.tumblr.com/
http://www.rhiz.eu/person-15780-en.html

Work

Freleance Artist

Education
2000 – 04 BA, Painting and Drawing, Dokuz Eylül University. Faculty of Fine Arts, Izmir / Turkey

Education

Education
2000 – 04 BA, Painting and Drawing, Dokuz Eylül University. Faculty of Fine Arts, Izmir / Turkey

Solo Exhibitions
2011 Quid rides? De te fabula narratur, Rampa, Istanbul / Turkey
2010 One Night Stand, 49A, Izmir / Turkey
2008 Stardust, Mehmet Dere, 49A, Izmir / Turkey
2004 Dere-ce, Room: 229, K2 Contemporary Art Center, Izmir / Turkey
Notify Me If I’m Faulty, Room: 233, K2 Contemporary Art Center, Izmir / Turkey

Group Exhibitions
2011 Deadpan Exchange V: Skopje, Skopje / Macedonia
Re-Locate, Apartment Project, Istanbul / Turkey
2010 When Ideas Become Crime, Tütün Deposu, Istanbul / Turkey
Silence_Storm, Port Izmir 2, International Triennial of Contemporary Art, Izmir / Turkey
Kasa Gallery, 10th Year exhibition, Istanbul / Turkey
2009 Translocation, collaborative exhibition, Atelierhaus Salzamt, Linz / Austria
Go to Salzamt exhibition, Salzamt Atelierhaus, Linz / Austria
Iddialıyız, Mehmet Dere & Nejat Satı, 49A, Izmir / Turkey
Sebeke, video screening, curated by Selim Birsel, Centre d’Art Contemporain Georges
Pompidou, Carjac / France
2008 Heim, Kutu Project, Atelier Frankfurt, Frankfurt / Germany
Made in Turkey, Positionen türkischer Künstler 1978-2008, Frankfurt / Germany
I AM HERE, THE TIME IS NOW, European Cultural Foundation, curated by Ong Keng Sen,
Rotterdam / Netherlands
Work to Room, collaborative project, curated by Övül Durmusoglu, Gon Bookstore, Istanbul /
Turkey
Urban Jelaousy, 1st International Roaming Biennial of Tehran, curated by Serhat Köksal &
Amirali Ghasemi, Tehran / Iran

27. Contemporary Artist Exhibition, Special Award, Akbank Sanat Beyoglu, Istanbul / Turkey
2007 10. Istanbul Biennial, Special Project, Santral Istanbul, Istanbul / Turkey
Off the Record, Parallel Event, Port 07 Izmir, Konak Municipality, Çetin Emeç Exhibition Hall,
Izmir / Turkey

Unmarked Categories, K2 Contemporary Art Center, Izmir / Turkey
Endless Possibilities, curated by Adnan Yıldız, Kasa Gallery, Istanbul / Turkey
All About Lies, collaborative project, Apartment Project, Izmir Port, Izmir / Turkey
2005 The little, the cheap, the trash and absolutely passionate: Young Turkish Artists from K2
Artists Initiative, Helsinki / Finland
DERE & SATI, K2 Contemporary Art Center, Izmir / Turkey
A Little Break, K2 Contemporary Art Center, Izmir / Turkey
alice vs. Alice, artists from K2 artists initiative, Kasa Gallery, Istanbul / Turkey
2004 Çatı Katı Tavan Arası, karma sergi, K2 artists initiative, Kasa Gallery, Istanbul / Turkey … Read More