Conversations with Artists at Risk (AR)
No. 1 - Barış Seyitvan
Barış Seyitvan is a Kurdish artist and curator. Born in 1982 in the Diyarbakir region of Eastern Turkey/Northern Kurdistan he is today one of the best experts of the Kurdish art scene. After having been forced to leave Kurdistan and exile into Western Europe he is now based in Berlin from where he tries to escape the long arm of the Turkish government and provides a platform for Kurdish art. Barış Seyitvan is the first guest of the portrait series Conversations with Artists at Risk (AR).
published on 06. November 2023
Barış Seyitvan, artist and curator
Origin: Kurdistan
Based in: Berlin
Show Notes
https://2plus2kurdistan.com
Exhibition in Lausanne curated by Barış Seyitvan and Serdar Mutlu
Cand Kurd [Spiele Rituale Geschichten] by Barış Seyitvan.
The book records the games, rituals and stories that the Kurdish people living in Europe learned or played while living in their own geography in the past. The book has been published in bilingual Kurdish-German and in collaboration with Hinterland Galerie in Vienna.
Talk with Barış Seyitvan in Dec 2020, moderated by Erden Kosovo. In Turkish.
Bakur Kuzey North. Pêşangeh-Sergi-Exhibition.
Exhibition Catalogue 2013. Amed Art Gallery/Sumerpark
Drawing Form Memory of Anfal by Osman Kader Ahmed.
Exhibition Catalogue 2015. Amed Art Gallery/Sumerpark
Kurdistan International Art Meeting – Group Exhibition.
Exhibition Catalogue 2015. Amed Art Gallery/Sumerpark
Murat Gök.
Exhibition Catalogue 2015. Amed Art Gallery/Sumerpark
Further recommendations by Barış Seyitvan:
Sivan Perwer
Yılmaz Güney
Half Moon
