May 18, 2022, 2 PM
Many thanks to the gallery manager Zheng Zhang introducing our participants to the gallery concept, program & history of Tanya Leighton and guiding us through the solo exhibition F*rgiveness by Elif Saydam. The visit is part of the BAI Studio Program | Berlin Artist Residency, Art School, Arts Incubator, and Live Online Courses & Classes.
Exhibition Dates: April 30 – June 25, 2022
Location: Tanya Leighton
Opening Hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 11 AM – 6 PM and by appointment.
Address: Kurfürstenstraße 156, 10785 Berlin
“Elif Saydam (born in 1985 in Calgary, Canada) lives and works in Berlin. Recent solo exhibitions include ‘…schläft sich durch’ at Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof, Hamburg in 2021; ‘Everybody’s Fool’ at Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich, ‘Gut feeling’ at Tanya Leighton, Berlin, and ‘Selfing’ at Melange, Cologne, all in 2020. Their work has been included in group exhibitions at Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland; Landes-Stiftung Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck, Bonn; Künstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral, Bad Ems, Germany; Kunstverein Nürnberg – Albrecht Dürer Gesellschaft, Nuremberg, and MMK Museum for Modern Art, Frankfurt am Main. Saydam’s work is held in the Public Collection of Contemporary Art of the Republic of Germany. As the recipient of the 2020 Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach-Stiftung “Catalogue for Young Artists” award, a monograph titled ‘Elif Saydam: TWO CENTS’ will be published by Mousse Publishing (Italy), released in April 2022. The book launch will be celebrated with an afternoon of readings at Hopscotch, Berlin on the last day of ‘F*rgiveness’, Saturday 25 June 2022.” (Text excerpt from the press release by courtesy of Tanya Leighton)
More information on the Tanya Leighton Website.
