Turkey
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Deniz Gül is a contemporary artist, born 1982, in Ízmir. She is known as a conceptual sculptor and a writer. Gül’s practice compromises how language performs as a text, sculpture and space. She is infamous by her novel-like exhibitions that feature installations and sculptures speaking of structure, composition, form, consequence. Her works have been featured in institutional exhibitions like the Istanbul Biennial (2015), the Sharjah Biennial (2017) and she has shown at key galleries and museums such as Arter, Badischer Kunstverein, The Center for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Centre De Cultura Contemporania, Palais des Beaux Arts de Lille. Gul’s books and exhibitions are known with the names, Loyelow (2016) B.I.M.A.B.K.R. (2013), 5 Person Bufet (2011). She has been featured in articles at Arnet News, Frieze Magazine, the Financial Times and Art in America. Deniz Gül, Meydan (2020), is the last fragment of Gül’s studies of the last ten years encompassing 5 person Bufet, B.I.M.AB.K.R. and Loyelow. The artist’s last solo Scratch and Surface opened up a new chapter in her studies and was held at Salt in 2021. She has established recently a publication house named notonlypublications and published her last book there is life between us (+transparency) in 2020.
