Serra Tansel
About
Serra Tansel (b.1989, Istanbul) currently lives in London.
Her practice engages with the ways in which we settle into our world, our cities, our houses and our bodies and the structures, the relationships we establish within them. She makes use of a wide range of aesthetics and media such as billboards, shop signs and stock images in order to twist, undermine and infiltrate into mainstream cultures. She is a member of the collectives Makkam they founded with Alper Oruç, Daniela Nofal and Yamen Makdad; and Bonnington Café that has been running since the 1980’s. Tansel is one of the faces of Hayırlı Evlat.
Her solo and group exhibitions include SH/FT, No Show Space, London (2021); SENKRON, Pilot, Istanbul (2021); Hayırlı Evlat, A Question of Taste, Pera Museum, Istanbul (2021); "Passion can create drama out of inert stone"?!, Peak, Elephant & Castle Shopping Mall, London (2020); Higher, Pilot Gallery, Istanbul (2020), Heavens!, Battersea Arts Centre, London and Bilsart, Istanbul (2019); Sinopale 7 (2019); Not Seeing Anything curated by Mari Spirito, Alt Bomonti, Istanbul (2017); Sera Tansel Unlimited, noshowspace, London (2015); Dünya Döner, Museum aan de Stroom, Antwerp (2015); Water is on the House with Duval Timothy, Polistar, Istanbul (2014).
