WORLD WEATHER NETWORK TALKS #3

SAHA Studio's June-December 2022 term resident artist, Elmas Deniz’s concept-driven works explore the intersections and points of entanglement between economics and nature. At the third part of the WWN Talks series, Deniz sheds light on her artistic practice by focusing on the human-nature relationship, how the idea of nature is shaped by different value systems throughout history, and today's ecological concerns.

Part of the World Weather Network’s year-long programme of artist-led weather stations, online weather reports, and live events fostering debate and discussion about the climate crisis, in this conversation the urgency of collaboration across the arts, sciences and policy-making is explored by two contrasting minds, meeting for the first time.

Commissioned by SAHA for World Weather Network.

Part of the weather station: Istanbul, Turkey - find out more here.  

Elmas Deniz

Elmas Deniz Born 1981 in Bergama, Turkey. Visual artist. She lives and works in Istanbul. She graduated from Dokuz Eylul University, Department of Painting, 2003 and Izmir Anatolian High School of Fine Arts, 1998. Her works have been displayed in the 16th Istanbul Biennial, curated by Nicolas Bourriaud, 2019; the 14th Istanbul Biennial, drafted by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, 2015; Colomboscope, Colombo, Sri Lanka, 2017; the 5th Gyumri Biennial in Yerevan, Armenia, 2006.

She is also one of the co-founders of K2 Contemporary Art Center in Izmir, Turkey. She was awarded IASPIS Artist Grant, 2014 ; Berlin Goethe Institute Cultural Grant, 2007; and has been a resident at Pistoletto Foundation IT, 2011; DIVA Copenhagen, DK, 2008 and Vassl, Karachi, PK, 2006, AIWA Lebanon, 2005.
www.elmasdeniz.com