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Group Exhibitions

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II. Four-Legged Exhibition
Dört Ayaklı Sergi

Berze Gallery, İstanbul, Turkey , 2026

This group exhibition brings together art and activism to explore animal rights, highlighting animals’ right to a good life and inviting reflection on the ethical, political, and emotional dimensions of coexistence, care, and interspecies connection.

From Artemis To Dara: Remember The Utopia
Artemis'ten Dara'ya: Ütopyayı Hatırla

Pakistan Pavilion, Izmir, Turkey, 2025

A collective reflection on memory, myth, geography, and imagined futures, connecting ancient references with contemporary ideas of utopia.

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For The Record
Kayda Değer

BarınHan, İstanbul, Turkey, 2025

An exhibition concerned with traces, testimony, and remembrance, asking what is kept, erased, documented, or reimagined through artistic practice.

Sense of Earth
Yer Duygusu

Barbare Vineyards, Tekirdağ, Turkey, 2024

A site-sensitive exhibition engaging with land, material, ecology, and perception, inviting viewers to consider the earth as memory, matter, and presence.

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Freedom

#EyÖzgürlük!

Journalist Association Press Museum, İstanbul, Turkey, 2022

A group exhibition reflecting on freedom as a fragile, contested, and necessary condition, shaped by voice, silence, image, and public memory.

IVY
Sarmaşık

Zilberman Selected, İstanbul, Turkey, 2022

Curated by Başak Şenova, this exhibition gathered works that branch, cling, and connect, evoking layered relations between memory, growth, and artistic thought.

Curator: Başak Şenova

Didem Erk - IVY, Zilberman Selected, İstanbul, 2022 - Sarmasik Sergi Posteri - Exhibition
Didem Erk - Vekâleten By Proxy Zilberman Selected, İstanbul, 2021 - Vekâleten Sergi Poster

By Proxy

Vekâleten

Zilberman Selected, İstanbul, Turkey, 2021

A group exhibition exploring representation, substitution, and speaking on behalf of others, questioning presence, absence, and delegated voice.

Balconnection

A.R.T & M.S., İzmir, Turkey, 2020

A collective project considering connection across places, bodies, and narratives, forming links between artistic practices and shared cultural memory.

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Didem Erk - Kelimeler Pek Yetersiz Words are Very Unnecessary, Arter, curated by Selen Ans

Words Are Very Unnecessary
Kelimeler Pek Yetersiz

Arter, İstanbul, Turkey, 2020

Curated by Selen Ansen, the exhibition examined the limits of language and the expressive power of silence, sound, gesture, and image beyond words.

Curator: Selen Ansen

A Room of One’s Own

 Megaron Annex M, Athens, Greece, 2019

A group exhibition reflecting on space, autonomy, authorship, and voice, drawing from questions of interiority, gender, and artistic self-determination.

Curator: Yasemin Elçi

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Didem Erk - Sergi Posteri - Exhibition PosteThe Unwritten Library_ An Exhibition Trilogy,

The Unwritten Library: After Babel

Megaron Annex M, Athens, Greece, 2019

Part of an exhibition trilogy, this project explored language after fragmentation, imagining libraries of lost, translated, and unwritten knowledge.

Curator: Anna Kafetsi

House of Wisdom

Bonington Gallery, Nottingham, United Kingdom, 2018

A collective project inspired by histories of knowledge, translation, and exchange, rethinking how cultural memory is gathered, shared, and transformed.

Curator: Cüneyt Çakırlar

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5x5x5

Manifesta 12, Palermo, Italy, 2018

Presented within the context of Manifesta 12, this exhibition brought together artistic practices engaging with place, exchange, and contemporary cultural networks.

Video Echoes: Waves from the Eastern Mediterranean

Counihan Gallery, Australia, 2018

A video-focused exhibition presenting voices and images from the Eastern Mediterranean, tracing memory, conflict, identity, and resonance across borders.

Didem Erk - Video Echoes Waves from the Eastern Mediterranean, Counihan Gallery, Australia

Curator: Victor Griss

The Unwritten Library: The Last Reader

Megaron Annex M, Athens, Greece, 2018

A chapter in the Unwritten Library trilogy, imagining reading as an act of survival, memory, and resistance within fragile archives of knowledge.

Didem Erk - The Unwritten Library The Last Reader, Megaron Annex M, Athens, 2018 - Exhibit

Curator: Anna Kafetsi

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Root
Kök

 Santral İstanbul Energy Museum, İstanbul, Turkey, 2018

An exhibition considering roots as origin, connection, and memory, linking personal histories with broader cultural, ecological, and social ground.

Night
Gece

Datca, Turkey, 2018

A collaborative performance proposal realised by Didem Erk, exploring night as a space of gathering, transition, imagination, and shared presence.

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Didem Erk - Nonlinear Histories Transgenerational Memory of Trauma, ReflectSpace Gallery,

Nonlinear Histories: Transgenerational Memory of Trauma

ReflectSpace Gallery, Los Angeles, US, 2018

An exhibition addressing how trauma moves across generations, appearing through fragmented histories, inherited silence, and acts of artistic remembrance.

Curators: Ara Oshagan, Anahid Oshagan & Işın Önol

House of Wisdom

Framer Framed, Amsterdam, Netherland, 2017

A collective exhibition revisiting knowledge, translation, and cultural exchange, asking how archives and stories travel across histories and geographies.

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Didem Erk - Akbank Sanat  - Siyah Gurultu - Black-Noise - Exhibition Poster - Sergi Poster

Black Noise
Siyah Gürültü

Aksanat, İstanbul, Turkey, 2017

A group exhibition engaging with disruption, opacity, and resistance, where visual and conceptual noise becomes a means of sensing hidden structures.

Curators: Ekmel Ertan & Işın Önol

TarraWarra International 2017:
All That Is Solid

TarraWarra Museum, Melbourne, Australia, 2017

An international exhibition reflecting on instability, transformation, and the shifting conditions of social, political, and material life.

Didem Erk - TarraWarra International 2017 - All that is solid, TarraWarra Museum, Melbourn

Curator: Victoria Lynn

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House of Wisdom

Bilgelik Evi, IKSV Building, İstanbul, Turkey, 2017

A project exploring the circulation of knowledge, translation, and collective memory through works that connect historical archives with contemporary questions.

Survival Kit

Space Debris Art, İstanbul, Turkey, 2017

A group exhibition considering survival as both practical and poetic, bringing together works shaped by uncertainty, resilience, and adaptation.

Curators: Serhat Cacekli, Naz Cuguoglu, Nikolay Alutin

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Didem Erk - Survival Kit, 4th Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art, Ekaterinburg,

Survival Kit

4th Ural Industrial Biennial, Yekaterinburg, Russia,  2017

Presented within the Ural Industrial Biennial, this exhibition explored survival strategies amid social, political, and environmental change.

Curators: Serhat Cacekli, Naz Cuguoglu, Nikolay Alutin

In a Blink of a Bird
Kuşla Göz Arasında

DEPO, İstanbul, Turkey, 2017

An exhibition attentive to fleeting perception, fragile memory, and the brief moments through which images, stories, and histories appear.

Didem Erk - Kuşla Göz Arasında - In a Blink of a Bird, DEPO, İstanbul, 2017 - Exhibition I
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House of Wisdom

Dzialdov, Berlin, Germany, 2017

A Berlin presentation of the House of Wisdom project, reflecting on libraries, translation, exile, and the shared movement of knowledge.

Curators: Naz Cuguoğlu and Mine Kaplang

Are You Still Alive? – Voices of Conscience at a Time of Silencing

Graz, Austria, 2017

A group exhibition foregrounding artistic conscience, voice, and resistance at a time marked by censorship, silence, and political pressure.

Curators: Işın Önol & Michael Petrowitsch

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Imago Mundi

Mediterranean Routes, Palermo, Italy, 2017

An exhibition mapping Mediterranean routes through artistic perspectives on movement, memory, identity, and the cultural ties shaped by sea and migration.

Curator: Francesco Pantaleone

Blow Up: Kavunu Gördüm

SALT Galata, İstanbul, Turkey, 2017

A group exhibition at SALT Galata exploring image, perception, and cultural reference through works that expand, question, and reframe visual meaning.

Didem Erk - Blow Up Kavunu Gördüm, SALT Galata, İstanbul, 2017 - Exhibition Poster - Sergi
Didem Erk - Un Coup de Dés Jamais N’Abolira le Hasard, Pilot, İstanbul, 2016 - Exhibition

Un Coup de Dés Jamais N’Abolira le Hasard

Pilot, İstanbul, Turkey, 2016

An exhibition reflecting on chance, language, and form, drawing on the poetic possibilities of uncertainty, fragmentation, and artistic gesture.

On Paper
Kağıt Üzerine

Mixer, İstanbul, Turkey, 2016

A group exhibition focused on paper as surface, material, archive, and field of experimentation for drawing, writing, image, and memory.

Didem Erk - On Paper  Kağıt Üzerine, Mixer, İstanbul, 2016 - Exhibition Poster - Sergi Afi
Didem Erk - Three Legged Table -  An Organism Üç Ayaklı Masa -  Bir Organizma, REM Art Spa

Three Legged Table: An Organism
Üç Ayaklı Masa: Bir Organizma

REM Art Space, İstanbul, Turkey, 2016

A collaborative exhibition imagining the table as a living structure of support, exchange, instability, and collective artistic thinking.

Stay with Me

De Kijkdoos Project Space, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2016

A presentation of works around care, endurance, and memory, asking what it means to remain with another person, image, or history.

Minimalist Art Gallery
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30 Years of Biennale: Through the Barricades

Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan, Italy, 2015

A biennial anniversary exhibition looking across histories of artistic resistance, public space, and cultural production beyond borders.

Curator: Andrea Bruciati

Stay with Me

Museum Weserburg, Bremen, Germany, 2015

A group exhibition addressing attachment, remembrance, and persistence, gathering works that hold close to fragile personal and collective histories.

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Didem Erk - Every inclusion is an exclusion of other possibilities - Her tercih diğer ihti

Every Inclusion Is an Exclusion of Other Possibilities
Her Tercih Diğer İhtimaller için bir Dışlamadır

SALT Beyoğlu, İstanbul, Turkey, 2015

An exhibition reflecting on choice, absence, and the politics of selection, asking what becomes visible and what remains outside the frame.

Curator: November Paynter

Performing Memory
Performans Belleği

Plato Sanat, İstanbul, Turkey, 2015

A group exhibition considering performance as a vessel for memory, where gestures, bodies, and actions carry traces of past experience.

Curator: Marcus Graf

Didem Erk - Performans Belleği Performing Memory, Plato Sanat, İstanbul, 2015 - Exhibition
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Stay with Me!
Uyuma Dayan!

Depo, İstanbul, Turkey, 2015

An exhibition shaped by ideas of resistance, care, and togetherness, inviting viewers to consider endurance as both personal and collective.

Pop-up Exhibition
Pop-up Sergi

 Kargart, İstanbul, Turkey, 2015

A temporary exhibition format bringing together works in a flexible, immediate setting, emphasising encounter, spontaneity, and shared presence.

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Didem Erk - La Sovversione Del Sensibile _ Subversion of the Sensible, Fabbrica Del Vapore

La Sovversione del Sensibile / Subversion of the Sensible

Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan, Italy, 2014

A group exhibition exploring how art can unsettle perception, challenge established meanings, and open new ways of sensing the world.

Curator: Marco Trulli

Stay with Me

Apartment Project, Berlin, Germany, 2014

A group exhibition centred on memory, companionship, and endurance, unfolding across intimate and collective forms of artistic expression.

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Carte Blanche to Nil Yalter

Galerist, İstanbul, Turkey,  2014

An exhibition shaped by Nil Yalter’s curatorial invitation, bringing together practices concerned with memory, identity, gender, and social history.

Curator: Nil Yalter

13th Istanbul Biennial: Mom, Am I a Barbarian?
Anne, Ben Barbar mıyım?

Arter, İstanbul, Turkey, 2013

Curated by Fulya Erdemci, the biennial examined public space, politics, and the role of art in questioning authority, belonging, and civic life.

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Curator: Fulya Erdemci

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Bufferzone: Checkpoint
Bufferzone Kontrol Noktası

Depo, İstanbul, Turkey, 2013

An exhibition reflecting on borders, checkpoints, and divided spaces, exploring how geography and politics shape memory, movement, and identity.

Sketching the Bufferzone

Polistar, İstanbul, Turkey, 2013

A project considering the buffer zone as both physical and symbolic space, where drawing and research trace separation, contact, and uncertainty.

Art Gallery
Modern Art Gallery

Taking Site

5533, İstanbul, Turkey, 2013

A group exhibition engaging with site, context, and artistic intervention, asking how place can be read, occupied, and reimagined through art.

Curator: Curators: Nancy Atakan, Filiz Avunduk, Volkan Aslan, Lena Brueggemann & Hannah Sieben.

Offside Effect, 1st Tbilisi Triennial

Tbilisi, Georgia, 2012

Presented at the 1st Tbilisi Triennial, the exhibition explored learning, exchange, and positions outside dominant systems of artistic production.

Curator: Henk Slager & Wato Tsereteli

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Didem Erk - Symbiosis, XV Biennale de la Méditerranée, Thessaloniki, 2011 - Exhibition Pos

Symbiosis, XV Biennale de la Méditerranée

 Thessaloniki, Greece, 2011

A group exhibition engaging with site, context, and artistic intervention, asking how place can be read, occupied, and reimagined through art.

Curator: Stephanie Bertrand, Effie Halivopoulou & Christos Savvidis

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