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Deniz Turan LSDC

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About Deniz
Deniz Turan's artistic practice is deeply rooted in conceptual exploration, shaping her works through a diverse range of materials, techniques, and forms. While her creations vary in expression, they share a common characteristic: they exist as displayable objects that acquire wearable qualities through carefully designed mechanisms. Central to her approach is the idea that these objects, when worn, interact with the body’s daily movements, subtly transforming routine actions into a form of performance art.
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Deniz Turan (1983, Izmir) is a visual artist based in London. Her artistic practice primarily focuses on art jewellery, sculptural objects, and analogue collages. Between 2018 and 2024, she pursued her artistic work at Atelier Loy, which she founded in Istanbul, and her pieces have been featured in both national and international exhibitions.In 2019, she was honored with the Portojoia Award at the Collectiva Meeting International Exhibition in Portugal. In 2024, she relocated to London, where she currently continues her artistic practice in her studio.

In Deniz Turan's works, created through the connotations of concepts, images, materials themselves, or colors, her primary pursuit is to achieve a quiet, powerful, and protest-driven language against the dominant impositions of the world perceived through our five senses. In her semi-controlled production process, which is open to potential surprises, the only rule she strictly adheres to is emphasizing the importance of thought and care in "creating" or "making."

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Education

  • Maden Contemporary Jewellery Studio (2015-2019) Istanbul, Turkey
  • Wax Modelling Lessons (2017) Aphorm Design, Istanbul, Turkey
  • Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences (2001-2005)
  • Department of Public Administration, Dokuz Eylul University, Izmir, Turkey
  • Institute of Foreign Languages (2000-2001) Dokuz Eylul University, Izmir, Turkey

Selected Group Exhibitions

2024

  • Kindred Studios Open Studio-Main Exhibition, Kindred Studios, London, UK
  • reDiscover Traveling Exhibition, Co-funded by the European Union
  • Ethno Fest, Tbilisi, Georgia (October 2024)
  • Ethnography Department, National Museum in Gdansk, Poland (September 2024)
  • Hungarian Youth Conference and Exhibition, Dürer Kert, Budapest, Hungary (July 2024)
  • Salföldi Faluhaz, Salföld, Hungary (June 2024)
  • Layer Hause, Kranj, Slovenia (April 2024)
  • Brussels Jewellery Week, Particles Exhibition, MAD Brussels, Belgium
  • Brussels Jewellery Week, with KULP Collective, BeTour, Demarkten, Brussels, Belgium
  • Jewellery Links in Mardin, 6th International Mardin Biennial Parallel Event, Mardin, Turkey

2023

  • Freedom of Press Exhibition, Turkey Association of Journalists, The Press Museum, Istanbul, Turkey
  • Missing Memories/Alliages, Lalabeyou Galerie, Madrid, Spain
  • Missing Memories/Alliages, Off Contemporania, Cercle Artistic de Sant Lluc, Barcelona, Spain
  • Autor Contemporary Jewelry Fair, Bucharest, Romania
  • Missing Memories/Alliages, Melting Point Valencia-Contemporary Jewellery Biennial, Ca Revolta, Santa Teresa, Valencia, Spain
  • Missing Memories/Alliages, Werkstatt Galerie, Munich Jewelry Week, Germany
  • Missing Memories, Alliages Gallery, Lille, France

Previous Notable Exhibitions

  • Until Death Do Us Part, Exhibited in Madrid, Brussels, Munich, and Lille (2022)
  • Between a Break and a Breakdown, Jerusalem Biennial, Tower of David, Jerusalem, Israel (2021)
  • Shape of Nature International Jewellery and Metal Art Exhibition, Beijing, China (2021)
  • Munich Jewellery Week (Virtual) (2021)
  • JOYA Barcelona Art Jewellery and Objects, Disseny Hub, Barcelona, Spain (2019)
  • Gioielli in Fermento, Villa Braghieri, Piacenza, Italy (2018 & 2019)
  • Athens Jewelry Week, Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece (2018)
  • Amber Trip - International Baltic Jewellery Show, Vilnius, Lithuania (2018)

Honors & Awards

  • Finalist, Shape of Nature International Jewelry and Metal Art, Beijing, China (2021)
  • Portojoia Award, Collectiva Meeting International Exhibition, Porto (2019)
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