Cengiz Mengüç

Publicatie , printen (2D) , installatie , Design , Artistiek onderzoek

Cengiz Mengüç is a graphic designer and artist from Apeldoorn currently living and working in Rotterdam. His practice spans commissioned and self initiated projects across different scales, contexts and printed formats. He combines his design work with an active visual research and archiving practice, exploring how informal, ephemeral and vernacular design is shaped and reproduced outside of the conventional frames of graphic design. Over the years this has resulted in an output of print- and installation-based work, publications, zines and cultural programming.

Cengiz exhibited work at Art Rotterdam XL, Framer Framed, Gemaal op Zuid, Metro54, OMI, Seoul Mediacity Biennale, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam and published via Onomatopee, PrintRoom and Everyday Technology Press.

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Photo: Talk Anadolu Ekspres at “Sometimes it gets out of hand and turns into music” at Salon Des Amateurs hosted by Künsthalle Düsseldorf, 2022. Photo taken by Gizem Asıcı.

**Smoothie Report, 2024** - Poster series, A2 laser print. Presented in public space in Rotterdam city centre as part of Art Central Rotterdam XL, 2024, where it was activated with a guided walk.

**Radical Inkjet (workshop), 2019 - ongoing** - Radical Inkjet is a one-day workshop for graphic and multimedia design students, developed as part of the visual research project Radical Inkjet, that explores how everyday tools like Microsoft Word and standard A4 printers can be creatively repurposed for design and publishing. Through printing, assembling, and installing typographic collages from individual sheets, students experiment with low-budget, ad-hoc methods of visual communication and publishing. The workshop invites participants to unlearn conventional design approaches and discover new ways of working by pushing the limits of everyday tools. The workshop so far has been presented at the bachelor programs Graphic Design ArtEZ Arnhem) and Crossmedia Design (AKI ArtEZ). https://radicalinkjet.blogspot.com/

**Radical Inkjet (visual research), 2019 - ongoing** - Visual research project dedicated to documenting the practice of printing large characters with small printers. https://radicalinkjet.blogspot.com/

**W. Melonen, 2023** - Installation of A4 inkjet-prints and self-adhesive coloured labels. Displayed at De Aanschow, curated by PrintRoom / Karin de Jong. Photos: Nienke Simons / De Aanschouw.

**Het straatbeeld als archief, 2023** - Installation of 12 PVC street light banners, 80x180 cm. What does shopfront signage tell us about a neighbourhood and its businesses? As a result of municipal policy aimed at curbing ‘proliferation’ of public advertising, a wide variety of signs in the Pretorialaan in Rotterdam is increasingly disappearing from the streets or being standardized. In the work made for ZigZagCity, Cengiz sings the praises of the visual wealth seen over the years along Pretorialaan. Drawing on his appreciation of visual culture on the street to reveal its history and stories, he invites us to view the streetscape as a living archive. Photo: OMI / Ossip van Duivenbode

**Resilient architecture, 2023** - Contribution to Resilient architecture / Leesmap, with Czar Kristoff and Matt Plezier. Published by PrintRoom.

Anadolu Ekspres: A journey into Turkish 'gurbetçi' music, 2021-2022 — **Anadolu Ekspres presents A journey into Turkish 'gurbetçi' music, 2021-2022** - Conceived as a hybrid public programme of panel talks, lectures and DJ sets exploring the history of labour, movement and migration through the music and popular culture of first-generation Turkish migrant workers in Germany and the Netherlands. Presented at sonsbeek 20–24, Dutch Art Institute, documenta fifteen and Kunsthalle Düsseldorf/Inter Media Art Institute throughout 2021 - 2022.

Test — **2022 Calendar of Leaked Research** - Publication, A3 corporate calendar, stickers. 2022 Calendar of Leaked Research contains residue from an ongoing investigation into vernacular design culture as it manifests on the streets of Rotterdam and as it links to other design cultures in the elsewhere. Throughout 2021 - together with Clara Balaguer under the temporary handle Your Company Name - we have used casual of field work methodologies: long walks documented by smartphone, Whatsapp image dumps and take-away-fueled conversations logged on Etherpad. The results were published in a corporate giveaway template calendar and was published in collaboration with PrintRoom.

**Inverse Turizm/Reverse Diaspora, 2021.** - Contribution to Vernaculars come to matter, published by Everyday Technology Press.

**We Out Here / Post/No/Bills, 2021** - Poster series, A0 offset print. Part of the group exhibition We Out Here hosted by Metro54. Adapted by Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam in 2021 as part of the exhibition Post/No/Bills.

Smoothie Report

Datum: 15-09-2024 t/m 15-09-2024

Locatie: Public space

In samenwerking met: Art Central Rotterdam XL

During a guided walk, Cengiz Mengüç leads visitors past his interventions and invites them to construct alternative slogans together – encouraging a deeper examination of the structured language of the city and potentialities for subversion.

His project, ‘Smoothie Report,’ collects texts from real estate, city marketing, hospitality, and retail advertisements he encounters in the urban landscape, and re-composes them as poetic slogans. These slogans are then reintroduced into the cityscape

https://omirotterdam.nl/en/evenementen/performance/smoothie-report/

Vernacular Design Horoscope Reading - 2022 Calendar of Leaked Research

Datum: 02-07-2022 t/m 02-07-2022

Locatie: PrintRoom

In samenwerking met: Clara Balaguer, PrintRoom

2022 Calendar of Leaked Research contains residue from an ongoing investigation into vernacular design culture as it manifests on the streets of Rotterdam and as it links to other design cultures in the elsewhere.

https://printroom.wpcomstaging.com/2022/06/20/2-july-2022-booxtravaganza-launch-of-new-publications-by-juliette-gilson-and-cengiz-menguc-clara-balaguer/

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