b. 1976, Germany.
Lives and works in Ankara.
Erdal Duman received his BA and MA degrees from the Department of Sculpture at Hacettepe University Faculty of Fine Arts. He was among the founding members of the contemporary art initiative Yaygara. In addition to numerous solo and group exhibitions, he has organized exhibitions and panels. He taught as a part-time lecturer at the Department of Sculpture, Hacettepe University Faculty of Fine Arts, and at the elective arts program at Middle East Technical University. He also worked as an art consultant at Arte Sanat within the Ankara Arte Group of Companies. Duman’s sculptures question the loss of reality during the representation of social experiences. His works focus on social realities such as local and global political movements, war, civil struggles, and migration, as well as on horrifying situations that become mythologized and qualities reduced to quantities. By subtly subverting both implicit and explicit forms and ideologies of oppression, the artist seeks to shed light on the familiar violence embedded within society.
Selected Exhibitons: Altın Çağ, Galeri Nev, Ankara (2020); Winter is Coming, #mebusan25, Istanbul (2019); Dünya Ne Düz, Ne Yuvarlak: Tam Bir Silindir, artSümer, Istanbul (2019); The Secret Life of Objects (curator: Beral Madra), Evliyagil Dolapdere, Istanbul (2019); Casus Belli, artSümer, Istanbul (2017); Memory of Objects?, Cer Modern, Ankara (2016); Time(less) Signs, Künstlerhaus, Vienna (2013); Make History, Modema, Italy (2010); Not a Lens but a Prism, Eugénio de Almeida Foundation, Évora, Portugal (2010).
Erdal Duman received his BA and MA degrees from the Department of Sculpture at Hacettepe University Faculty of Fine Arts. He was among the founding members of the contemporary art initiative Yaygara. In addition to numerous solo and group exhibitions, he has organized exhibitions and panels. He taught as a part-time lecturer at the Department of Sculpture, Hacettepe University Faculty of Fine Arts, and at the elective arts program at Middle East Technical University. He also worked as an art consultant at Arte Sanat within the Ankara Arte Group of Companies. Duman’s sculptures question the loss of reality during the representation of social experiences. His works focus on social realities such as local and global political movements, war, civil struggles, and migration, as well as on horrifying situations that become mythologized and qualities reduced to quantities. By subtly subverting both implicit and explicit forms and ideologies of oppression, the artist seeks to shed light on the familiar violence embedded within society.
Selected Exhibitons: Altın Çağ, Galeri Nev, Ankara (2020); Winter is Coming, #mebusan25, Istanbul (2019); Dünya Ne Düz, Ne Yuvarlak: Tam Bir Silindir, artSümer, Istanbul (2019); The Secret Life of Objects (curator: Beral Madra), Evliyagil Dolapdere, Istanbul (2019); Casus Belli, artSümer, Istanbul (2017); Memory of Objects?, Cer Modern, Ankara (2016); Time(less) Signs, Künstlerhaus, Vienna (2013); Make History, Modema, Italy (2010); Not a Lens but a Prism, Eugénio de Almeida Foundation, Évora, Portugal (2010).