:mentalKLINIK
:MENTALKLINIK IS A BRUSSELS-BASED ARTIST DUO FROM ISTANBUL COMPOSED OF
YASEMIN BAYDAR & BIROL DEMIR WHO BEGAN THEIR COLLABORATIVE PRACTICE IN 1998.
:mentalKLINIK strides with undisguised dexterity the invisible political strategies and the social dynamics by ultra-contemporary devices of an apparent lightness. Like a discoball, :mentalKLINIK shows are a selection of their multifaceted approach on their universe. Resisting to the limitations of a single vocabulary or style, their world is a playful one full of hedonistic appeal which can be experienced as festive and glamourous but also surprising as one approaches to discover with a closer view an underlying violence suggestive of a bad trip after party or a creepy beginning of the end. Their works shift between emotional and robotic attitudes. Artist duo reclaim the sparkling and authoritative visual language of the media and night spheres in a climate of sensory hyperstimulation engendered by multiple neons, slogans, light beams, mirror balls and confetti while playing with our unanimous attraction to objects glittering and seductive. It is all the work of encryption to which they summon us, between the true and the false, the artificial and the superficial, as if everything were a case of falsification.
:mentalKLINIK has an open laboratory approach to process, production, roles, conception and presentation. Their works are a mix of oxymora and paradoxes, darkly humorous, self-contained range from immersive time based installations to sculptures and objects that thwart categorisation.
:mentalKLINIK's experimental approach has been praised on numerous international exhibitions including Bitter Medicine#01 (Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade ), 'FreshCut' (MAK, Vienna_ Austrian Museum of applied Arts / Contemporary Art) and 'Co-operation Would be Highly Appreciated' Exhibition at SCAD Museum GA, USA. They have participated in numerous international exhibitions including Istanbul Modern-Rotterdam at Boijmans van Beuningen Museum (Rotterdam, 2012); Izmir Triennial of Contemporary Art (Izmir, 2010); and Tomorrow, Now (MUDAM, Luxembourg, 2007). They opened an introspective at La Patinoire Royale, Brussels curated by Jerome Sans in 2018. They have had two major solo shows at Galerist, Istanbul titled That's Fucking Awesome curated by Jerome Sans (2011) and rABBIThOLE (2009); and a solo show at Gallery Isabelle van den Eynde Thank You For your Cooperation (2014), a solo show in Belgrade in 2018 titled 'Catastrophically Gorgeous' at Eugster II Belgrade, curated by Yasmina Reggad.
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:mentalKLINIKSliders (Chromatic), 2018Tempered Glass, Dichroic Micro-Layered Polyester Films, Anodized Aluminium210 x 220 x 5 cm
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:mentalKLINIKUntitled 152, 2011Wool+Wool, handwoven carpet, high polished bronze170 x 236 cm
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:mentalKLINIKUntitled 436, 2011Wool+Wool, handwoven carpet, high polished bronze181 x 246 cm
71 1/4 x 96 7/8 in -
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:mentalKLINIKAMAZEBALLS (CRISIS), 1801
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:mentalKLINIKCANDY CRASH
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:mentalKLINIKLUV (Paris)
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:mentalKLINIKSELF-SEEKING SUPERFICIALS
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:mentalKLINIKSELF-SEEKING SUPERFICIALS
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:mentalKLINIKSLIDER, 1806
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:mentalKLINIKSOME TIME (HATE IN AMERICA) 1715/2
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:mentalKLINIKSUPERHERO SNOWFLAKE GENERATION,1801
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Land of the Lotus Eaters
Louise Alexander Gallery, Porto Cervo 2 Jul - 4 Sep 2022The epic poem 'The Odyssey' contains a reimagined map, illustrated by vividly transporting the reader on a grand voyage across land, sea, and air while entwining a tapestry of mythologies,...Read more -
BITTER MEDICINE #02
:mentalKLINIK @ Borusan Contemporary (Istanbul, Turkey) 17 Sep 2020 - 31 Jan 2021A Bitter Medicine for the Pandemic Conditions at Borusan ContemporaryRead more
Borusan Contemporary will greet the new season with BITTER MEDICINE #02, presented by the artist duo :mentalKLINIK as a prescription for the art world pushed to make drastic changes under the circumstances created by the COVID-19 pandemic. The exhibition reveals an urgent perspective on the precautions taken for the sake of protecting public health and is an infinite and unrepeated movement of a performative installation that streams onto the digital realm 24/7 from Borusan Contemporary.