Bedri Baykam
BIOGRAPHIE
Né à Ankara en 1957, Bedri Baykam est un artiste central de la nouvelle peinture abstractionniste en
Turquie, jouant un rôle clé dans l’émergence de ce courant dans les années 1980. Enfant prodige, il
expose très tôt et a depuis présenté plus de 150 expositions personnelles à travers le monde. Formé
à la Sorbonne, à l'Actorat (Paris), puis en peinture et cinéma en Californie, il s’impose dans les
années 1980 comme l’un des représentants du néo-expressionnisme et de l’art politique multimédia.
Acteur de la scène graffiti new-yorkaise, il conjugue pratiques subversives et engagement esthétique. Depuis les années 2000, il développe des lenticulaires « 4D » alliant technologies numériques, transparence matérielle et immersion sensorielle. Théoricien prolifique, auteur de plus de trente ouvrages, il a été le Président de l’Association Internationale des Arts Plastiques (IAA/AIAP), partenaire de l’UNESCO, et initiateur de la Journée Mondiale de l’Art, officiellement reconnue depuis 2019. Fondateur du centre d’art Piramid Sanat à Istanbul et éditorialiste pour Cumhuriyet, Baykam défend une approche de l’art comme champ critique et espace d’interaction civique
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Expositions individuelles sélectionnées
-Art Lovers Club, Ankara (Childhood Works), 1963
-Galerie du Bac, Paris (Childhood Works), 1964
-Galerie Il Bilico, Roma (Childhood Works), 1965
-Greer Gallery, New York City (Childhood Works), 1965
-American Friends Gallery, Washington D.C., (Childhood Works), 1966
-Galerie Schumacher, Munich (Childhood Works), 1967
-Konstfackskolan, Stockholm (Childhood Works), 1967
-Galerie Horhammer, Helsinki (Childhood Works), 1968
-Atatürk Cultural Center, İstanbul (Neo-Expressionist Works), 1983
-Artexpo, Coliseum, New York City (Neo-Expressionist Works), 1983
-City Gallery, San Francisco (Neo-Expressionist Works), 1983
-Martin / Molinary Gallery, New York City (Neo-Expressionist Works), 1984
-Gallery Baraz, İstanbul (Neo-Expressionist Works), 1984
-Atatürk Cultural Center, İstanbul (Neo-Expressionist Works), 1985
-Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris (Neo-Expressionist Works), 1985
-Galerie Wanda Reiff, Hulsberg-Holland (Neo-Expressionist Works), 1985
-Va Gallery of Contemporary Art, Oakland (Neo-Expressionist Works), 1986
-Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco (Neo-Expressionist Works), 1986
-Atatürk Cultural Center, İstanbul (Stripe Paintings), 1986
-Ayasofya Bath, İstanbul (Live Installations), 1987
-Atatürk Cultural Center, İstanbul (Political Installations), 1988
-E. M. Donahue Gallery, New York City (Photo-Newspaintings), 1988
-Galerie Lavignes-Bastille, Paris (Remakes of Masters), 1990
-Atatürk Cultural Center, İstanbul (“555 K” 27th of May 1960 Revolution), 1990
-E. M Donahue Gallery, New York City (Drip Series), 1992
-Art-Jonction, Cannes (Livart), 1994
-Galerie Lavignes-Bastille, Paris (Livart, etc…), 1994
-Museum of Revolution, Havana (40th of the Cuban Revolution), 1999
-Galerie Zafira, Paris (Le Dreamcorder), 1999
-Atatürk Cultural Center, İstanbul (My Twentieth Century), 1999
-Galerie Lavignes-Bastille, Paris (Girly Plots), 2002
-Siyah Beyaz Gallery, Ankara (Girly Plots), 2002
-Sarajevo Turkish Cultural Center, Sarajevo – Bosnia (Girly Plots), 2004
-Piramid Sanat, İstanbul (Introducing the 4Ds), 2007
-Broadway Gallery, New York (Lolitart(e) Series), 2007
-Maison de L’Amerique Latine de Monaco, Monte-Carlo (The 4D Works), 2008
-Alphonse Berber Gallery, San Francisco/Berkeley, California (4Ds), 2009
-Museum Pinacotheque de Paris, Paris (Homage to Munch), 2010
-Elgiz Museum of Contemporary Art, İstanbul (Homage to Munch), 2011
-Roland Garros, Musee de la FFT, Paris (Histoire de Roland-Garros en 4D), 2011
-Gallery Merkür, İstanbul (Voyeur of History), 2011
-Galerie Artist, Berlin (Homage to Munch), 2012
-Piramid Sanat, İstanbul (Voyeur of History), 2013
-Galerie Lavignes-Bastille, Paris (4Ds and Voyeur of History), 2013
-The Proposition, New York (EmptyFrame), 2013
-Piramid Sanat, İstanbul (8 Seconds that Changed the World), 2013
-Tap Gallery, Sydney (Wild Thing, You Make My Heart Sing), 2016
-Galerie Kuchling, Berlin (I Wish I Had a Harem), 2017
-National Academy of Arts of Ukraine, Kyiv (From Last Decade), 2018
-Şevket Sabancı Cultural Center, Bodrum (Visual Adventures), 2019
-Siyah Beyaz Gallery, Ankara (Painterly Matters), 2019
-Gloria Delson Contemporary Arts, Los Angeles (Visual Adventures), 2019
-Piramid Sanat, İstanbul (Studio’s Lost & Found), 2021
-Flamm, Bodrum (I’m not Afraid of Art), 2021
-Villa Levante, İzmir (Mixed Series), 2022
-Ada Modern, Kuşadası (Metamorphose), 2022
-Gloria Delson Contemporary Arts, Los Angeles (Still Wet), 2023
-Siyah Beyaz Gallery, Ankara (The Path Openers and Their Paths), 2024
-Şevket Sabancı Cultural Center, Bodrum (Masterpieces), 2024
-Galerie S/Beaubourg, Paris. (The Demoiselles Revisited), 2025
Expositions collectives sélectionnées
-Art ’78. İstanbul, 1978
-Salon de Montrouge. Paris, 1985
-1st International İstanbul Bienale, 1987
-International Mediterranean Contemporary Art Show. Bari-Italy, 1989
-International Mahares Plastic Arts Festival. Tunusia, 1990
-Contemporary Turkish Art Show. Tokyo-Japan, 1991
-Foreigner- A Traveler. Schiedamm Stedeljik Museum, Holland, 1993
-Turkish-Greek Artists Group Show: Face to Face. İstanbul-Atina, 1997-1998-2000
-International Cairo Biennale. Egypt, 1998
-La Course Camarguaise, Cercle d’Art Du Cailar. Camargue, France, 2000
-Sacred Mediterranean. Cataniâ University, Sicily, 2001
-II. International Buenos Aires Biennale. Argentina, 2002
-Edges of the Earth. China Art Academy, Hangzhou, China, 2003
-Love for Sale. Bank Side Gallery, London, 2005
-Nine Dragon Heads 2005. Cheong Ju, Korea, 2005
-The Edge. Kochi Museum, Japan, 2005
-Art Caucasus 2005. Tbilisi, Georgia, 2005
-40 Artistes Contemporains En Hommage a Fikret Mualla. La Petite Galerie, Paris, 2007
-Meeting Point. Archola Theatre, London, 2007
-An Archaeological Dig of the Wind: 40th Anniversary of the 68 Movement. İstanbul, 2008
-Group Show. Opera Gallery. London, 2009
-Simultaneity - Parallels - Opposites. Akademie der Künste Hanseatenweg, Berlin, 2009
-İstanbul Next Wave, Martin-Gropius Haus with İstanbul Modern. Berlin, 2009
-Van Gogh, on the Trails of Modernism. Ankara, 2010
-Typology of Turkish Contemporary Art. Culturel Centrum Hasselt, Belgium, 2010
-Press Art. Kunstmuseum, St. Gallen, 2010
-Press Art. Museum der Moderne, Salzburg, 2010
-The Huma Kabakçı Collection. Osthaus Museum, Hagen, 2010
-The Huma Kabakçı Collection. Modern Hungarian Gallery, 2010
-An İstanbul Legacy. Lahd Gallery, London, 2010
-Al GHAIB- Aesthetics of the Disappearance. Sharjah, Dubai, 2011
-Contemporary Turkish Art. Auction by Sotheby’s, London, 2011
-A Selection from Turkish Contemporary Art. Azerbaijan State Academy of Fine Arts, Baku, 2011
-Fliegen/Flying. Künstlerhaus Bethanian, Berlin, 2012
-45 Artists at the 45th Year. Yunus Emre Cultur Center, Brussels, 2012
-İstanbul Modern Koleksiyonu. Bahrain National Museum Group Show, Bahrain, 2013
-Ithaca Returned. Contemporary Art Museum of Crete, Crete, Greece, 2013
-Ithaca Returned. Municipal Gallery, Ithaca Island, Greece, 2013
-Post-Picasso: Contemporary Reactions. Barcelona Museum, Barcelona, 2014
-The Art of the Turks. Rheinlande und Westfalen Art Center, Düsseldorf, 2015
-Words: Barış Manço. Galatasaray Museum, İstanbul, 2015
-56th Venice Biennial, Nine Dragon Heads. Palazzo Loredan dell Ambasciatore. Italy, 2015
-Lines of Passage. Elgiz Museum/Halimbey Mansion, Lesvos, Greece, 2016
-Made by Artist. Block 33. Thessaloniki, Greece, 2016
-Imago Mundi Mediterranean Routes. ZAC Zisa Contemporary Art Zone, Palermo/Italy, 2017
-A New World. METU Art. Ankara, 2018
-Paper. Pilevneli Gallery. İstanbul, 2019
-Contemporary Art from Turkey. Modern Art Research Institute of the National Academy of Arts of Ukraine, Kyiv, 2020
-Searching for Freedom. Stadt Galerie Badehaus/Bade Soden Museum, Germany, 2020
-”And Now The Good News”. Nobel Collection. Pera Museum, İstanbul
-90s on Stage. Salt Beyoglu. İstanbul, 2022
-90s on Stage. Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hamburg, 2024
-Nomadic Party. Spazio Punch, Venice Bienalle parallel event, 2024