With a collaborative practice that began in 1998, :mentalKLINIK is a Brussels-based artist duo from Istanbul composed of Yasemin Baydar and Birol Demir.Their work operates through paradox and dark humor, examining how contemporary life is shaped by hyper-capitalism, technological systems, and the hidden forces that influence perception and behavior.
Working across video, installation, sculpture, participatory performances, AI-generated figures, and image-based environments, :mentalKLINIK explore visual overload, automation, and hyper-connectivity. Since the inception of the duo, they have developed an evolving lexicon called contempoetry, rooted in everyday language and clichés that reveal the face cachée of contemporary society.
Alongside this linguistic practice, the duo experiment with printing techniques, industrial processes, and architectural materials—including UV printing, polished metals, aluminum trusses, and ready-mades—to create immersive environments that blur image, object, and space, and prompt viewers to consider how to find an individual anchor within increasingly saturated and automated systems.
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LIAR (DUO) -1106, 2011 -
ARE YOU GOOD ENOUGH, 2018 -
DIRTY MIRROR, 2022 -
DIRTY MIRROR, 2022 -
LIKEWISE, 2508, 2025 -
LIKEWISE, 2515, 2025 -
HYPERCHROMATIC MADNESS, 2021 -
VIOLENTLY JOYFUL, 2021 -
HYPER-SPRING 200101, 2020 -
HYPERCHROMATIC MADNESS 1905, 1906, 2019 -
PERFECT LOVERS, 2018, 2018 -
AMAZEBALLS (SEEYOU), 1801, 2018 -
SUPERHERO SNOWFLAKE GENERATION, 1801, 2018 -
SOME-TIME 1802, 2018 -
Self-Seeking-Superficials 1706, 2017 -
Puff Out, 2017 -
Phony 1703, 2017 -
POISONOUS GIFT , 2017 -
MOËT, 1703, 2017 -
Airless1541, 2015 -
Thank You For Your Cooperation, 2014 -
FrenchKiss, 2013 -
Cheater Gang, 2011 -
Untitled 357, 2011
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Are you human enough
:mentalKILINIK 17 January - 20 March 2026Set within an environment of visual overload and compulsive accumulation, ARE YOU HUMAN ENOUGH centres on the human figure at risk of dissolving into surface, interface, and pattern—no longer a...Read more -
OUT OF PLACE
VIKRAM DIVECHA, MOHAMMED KAZEM, :mentalKLINIK, HALEH REDJAIAN, Hassan Sharif and Raed Yassin 22 March - 24 July 2021A group show featuring works by Vikram Divecha , Mohammed Kazem , :mentalKLINIK , Haleh Redjaian , Hassan Sharif , and Raed Yassin , Out of Place examines our place...Read more -
Truish
:mentalKLINIK 7 November - 30 December 2017'How can art lie when the reality is not true enough,' - :mentalKLINIK We are pleased to announce artist duo :mentalKLINIK's second solo exhibition at the gallery. Truish not only...Read more -
Thank You For Your Cooperation
:mentalKLINIK 27 May - 28 July 2014:mentalKLINIK play with colorful reflective surfaces, billboard type signs and rhetorical operations to explore new languages and alternative textures of pleasure. By drawing on these elements as the subject and...Read more
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Lunatic Poets
PİLEVNELİ, Istanbul 17 September - 17 October 2025PİLEVNELİ is presenting the debut of LUNATIC POETS , a solo exhibition by the Brussels-based artist duo :mentalKLINIK, the outcome of four years of production....Read more -
Generated Dreams
Sabrina Amrani Gallery, Madrid 12 September - 9 November 2024Sabrina Amrani Gallery presents GENERATED DREAMS , the second solo show of :mentalKLINIK at the gallery, as part of APERTURA Madrid Gallery Weekend. With this...Read more -
Spectres of the Future
Doel Festival, Doel, Belgium 16 September - 29 October 2023'DOELWILL' is a fictional advertising campaign by :mentalKLINIK artist duo as their art form for an illusory investment project, installed in the ghost town of...Read more -
Paradise on Sale
Dirimart Dolapdere, Istanbul 3 - 28 May 2023In PARADISE ON SALE, :mentalKLINIK does not promise you a new paradise but rather asks you to celebrate the end of utopia as accomplices. Transforming...Read more -
Chroniques
The International Biennale of Digital Art, La Nuit, Marseille, France 10 November 2022 - 22 January 2023:mentalKLINIK is presenting at the Chroniques: The International Biennale of Digital Art. From November 10, 2022 to January 22, 2023, more than 70 artists were...Read more -
Lovelessness
Eugster, Belgrade 16 September - 19 November 2022LOVELESSNESS is an immersive installation conceived by the artist duo :mentalKLINIK, presented so as to transform the space of the gallery into a sterile, yet...Read more -
Hypermoody
Sabrina Amrani Gallery, Madrid 19 February - 26 March 2022In their exhibition, oxymoronically titled HYPERMOODY to underscore the split between life as lived and as advertised, :mentalKLINIK harnesses, materials like tempered glass, polished aluminum...Read more -
Signs of the Times
Apalazzo Gallery, Brescia, Italy 20 November 2021 - 5 February 2022Curated by Jérôme Sans, The Signs of The Times exhibition aims to adress the state of global uncertainity after the 2020 pandemic. By demonstrating a...Read more -
MAD MACHINE
Teatros del Canal, Madrid 5 - 14 March 2021Puff Out Installation is present at Canal Connect from 5 to 14 March at Teatros del Canal and at the Centro Coreográfico Canal an event...Read more -
BITTER MEDICINE #02
Borusan Contemporary 17 September 2020 - 31 January 2021Borusan Contemporary presented Bitter Medicine #02 by the artist duo :mentalKLINIK as a prescription for the art world pushed to make drastic changes under the...Read more -
BITTER MEDICINE #01
MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART IN BELGRADE (MOCAB) 6 May - 7 June 2020PUFF OUT is a Bitter Medicine to museums under lockdown, initiated by the artist duo :mentalKLINIK and curated by Carl De Smet for the Museum...Read more
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2024 MA Festival, Brugge
Ethereal Realms - All fiction is metaphor :mentalKLINIK 10 August 2024'Ethereal Releams' is a music performance inspired by the novel of Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness, a science fiction novel from...Read more -
:mentalKLINIK STAGE
Eugster II Belgrade 14 January 2023:mentalKLINIK is hosting a party on Novermber 19th, 2022 @ Eugster II Belgrade @ 18:15 – 19:02. Join the frıvolous celebratıon on the glıtterıng :mentalKLINIK...Read more -
Contemporary Istanbul, Turkey
VIOLENTLY JOYFUL 17 September 2022Artist duo :mentalKLINIK’s installation 'VIOLENTLY JOYFUL' at Contemporary Istanbul, 2022. The infinite and high-speed scroll of the words ...LIKE, SHARE, UNFOLLOW, LIKE, UNLIKE ... reflect...Read more
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:mentalKLINIK: The Istanbul-born Brussels-based artist duo alchemises a bodily experience with the alluring promises of technology.
Canvas MagazineOsman Can Yerebakan , Canvas Magazine, 15 November 2023 -
IS ART ‘TRUE’ ENOUGH?
Agence France-Presse, Hurriyet Daily News, 22 December 2017 -
:mentalKLINIK - Truish
Islamic Arts , 23 November 2017 -
Seeking the truth about truth
Jyoti Kalsi, Gulf News, 22 November 2017 -
INTELLECTUAL ETHOS IN THE VOID
Nazlı Pektaş , ART UNLIMITED, 1 November 2017 -
On Special Occasions And The Time of the Objects
Jack Halberstam, 1 July 2014 -
It is all in your head
Anna Seaman , The National, 23 June 2014 -
THAT'S FUCKING AWESOME
Ayse Draz (Editor), THAT'S FUCKING AWESOME, 1 January 2013 -
FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD
Ayla Jean Yackley, Canvas, 1 May 2012 -
This is Reality, Fundamentally shared
Freek Lomme, DAMn° magazine, 1 October 2011 -
:mentalKLINIK _ rABBIThOLE
Zafer Aracagök, 1 January 2009 -
Fluids and Turbulence: Debt Paid to Heraclitus
Ali Akay, 1 March 2008
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MIRRORMIRROR
THE REFLECTIVE SURFACE IN CONTEMPORARY ART Michael Petry, 2024BookRead more
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Out of Place
Vikram Divecha, Mohammed Kazem, :mentalKLINIK, Haleh Redjaian, Hassan Sharif, and Raed Yassin 2021 Read more -
OBNOXIOUSLY HAPPY
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83% Satisfaction Guaranteed
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Thank You For Your Cooperation
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That’s Fucking Awesome
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art_ist magazine, 2007 (an insert book) 2007 Read more -
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