Ulufer Çelik

video - artistic research

Ulufer Çelik (b. 1992, Antalya/Turkey) is an artist, who lives and works in Rotterdam, Netherlands. She completed her studies in the MA Art Praxis program at the Dutch Art Institute in 2018. Her artistic practice explores the potentialities of narrative and myth-making, that is expressed through moving image, poetry, drawing, sound and performance. In her work, she constructs on multi-layered planes through a non-linear perception of time. She searches for queer, immigrant, feminist ways of making and thinking with the archaeological, spiritual and spatial traces of memory. She is a member of Eat-House Collective, W1555 Artist Community and a resident at Putsebocht 3. Her work has been exhibited in several shows at Growing Space, Corridor Project Space, Are Projects, Rib, State of Concept, Yellow Brick Gallery, Litost Gallery, Institute for Provocation, Belmacz Gallery and Wuerttembergischer Kunstverein.


I love it when translation can be found to agree with our weird desires

Project

  • 01-02-2018 t/m 01-03-2025
  • In collaboration with: Alaa Abu ASAD
  • Location:, Rotterdam
  • Do you know what does şemsiye mean? Do you use the word kırbaç for a whip? For around two years, we have been collecting identical words used in both of our languages ​​​​of Turkish and (vernacular) Palestinian Arabic. A process that can last for good – as long as our friendship lives. We spend time together uttering words that are in common and draw them, whether they carry the same meaning, were slightly different, or were false friends.
  • http://www.booksatrib.com/tags/ulufer-celik/

EATHOUSE

Project

  • 01-04-2020 t/m 01-04-2025
  • In collaboration with: Vlada Predelina, Merve Kılıçer, Jake Caleb
  • Location: Pavilion On The Water, Rotterdam
  • Eathouse is an initiative set up by Ulufer Çelik, Merve Kılıçer, Vlada Predelina and Jake Caleb to provide simple, affordable food and a generous meeting point for people living in Rotterdam-Zuid. For the 2020 summer season, Eathouse cooked and hosted the restaurant at Paviljoen... aan het Water. photo courtesy Ash Kilmartin

Acknowledgments

    Publication
  • Garp Sessions: Documentation and Commissioned Works 2019-2022

  • 2023
  • nocturne publishing -
    Publication
  • 'I love it when translation can be found to agree with our weird desires'

  • 2023
  • Game Deck
  • PrintRoom - Ulufer Celik & Alaa Abu Asad
    Publication
  • 'I love it when translation can be found to agree with our weird desires'

  • 2019
  • Book
  • Mophradat Books - Ulufer Celik & Alaa Abu Asad