Rıdvan Aşar

I was born on May 15, 1989 in the Kızıltepe district of Mardin. After completing my undergraduate education in Mardin Artuklu University Fine Arts Faculty Painting Department in 2018, I took part in the Master's program in Düzce University Fine Arts Institute Painting Department. I currently live in Mardin and continue my work in my workshop.

In my art practice, with different mediums and materials; I continued my work in the fields of Painting, Video, Installation, Photography. Rather than limiting my work to the possibilities of the material, I used the effective language of the material in this parallel to mirror my own artistic thinking. In my productions, I tried to produce political, evocative and thought-provoking images such as Power-body and Domination, which I witnessed from time to time about the situation of the geography I live in. It developed in a process that followed each other in this orbit and also moved to different dimensions with the rich language of the material. In addition to my main concepts of “Power, Body, Domination, Trace, Displacement”, I conducted research on sub-concepts such as Movement, Going, Belonging and Geography. I can say that these concepts form the basis of my art practice. As a result of these researches; I aimed to reveal the impressions created by Time and Memory on the individual-society in my productions.




Exhibitions – Workshops

2015 - Kermozade Art Gallery, Mardin-Türkiye

2015 – 2017 – Transition Theater Company, Mardin-İzmir-Türkiye

2016 – Hamle Workshop, Evrim Kavcar, Mardin-Türkiye

2016 – Desire for Distance, Nilüfer Ovalıoğlu, Romain Kronenberg, Mardin, France-Turkey

2016 – 2017 – Loading (Stopmotion), Sinek Cafe, Mardin-Turkey

2017 – Deng, Nilüfer Ovalioğlu, Romain Kronenberg, Mardin-France-Turkey

2017 – Timeless, Aziz Nesin Mathematics Village, İzmir-Şirince-Turkey

2018 – Counter Biennial, Mardin-Türkiye

2018 – Graduation Exhibition, Mardin Museum, Mardin-Türkiye

2019 – Zero Point, Düzce University, Düzce-Türkiye

2019 – What the House Remembers: An Image Lesson, Zeynep Sayın, Bozlu art Project, Istanbul-Turkey

2020 – Base, Istanbul-Türkiye