Overview
With a collaborative practice that started in 1998, :mentalKLINIK is a Brussels-based artist duo from Istanbul composed of Yasemin Baydar (born 1972, Istanbul) and Birol Demir (born 1967, Ankara). Their work is a mix of oxymora and paradoxes, darkly humorous, self-contained and as much concerned with the total effect of accelerated capitalism as with the invisible politics and dynamics that define our everyday lives. Eschewing themes of identity, history and memory, their works range from immersive time-based installations to sculptures and objects that thwart categorisation.
ARTISTS WEBSITE
Works
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LIAR (DUO) -1106, 2011 -
ARE YOU GOOD ENOUGH, 2018
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SLIDER, 1807, 2018
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HYPERCHROMATIC MADNESS, 2021
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VIOLENTLY JOYFUL, 2021
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HYPER-SPRING 200101, 2020
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HYPERCHROMATIC MADNESS 1905, 1906, 2019
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PERFECT LOVERS, 2018, 2018
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Moet 1801_B , 2018
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HYPERCHROMATIC MADNESS 1902, 2019
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AMAZEBALLS (SEEYOU), 1801, 2018
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SUPERHERO SNOWFLAKE GENERATION, 1801, 2018
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SOME-TIME 1802, 2018
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Some-TIme 1713, 2017
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Self-Seeking-Superficials 1706, 2017
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Moet 1702 , 2017
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LAZY WORKS 1721, 2017
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Puff Out, 2017
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Phony 1703, 2017
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POISONOUS GIFT , 2017
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MOËT, 1703, 2017
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Airless1541, 2015
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ANTHONY, from the PROFILE series, 2014
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Thank You For Your Cooperation, 2014
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FrenchKiss, 2013
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LOVER_RP1301, 2013
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Cheater Gang, 2011
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Untitled 357, 2011
Exhibitions
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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
External
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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 -
ICI NOUS PORTONS TOUS LES RÊVES DU MONDE
Antananarivo, Madagascar 8 February - 2 May 2020:mentalKLINIK participated in the first multi-disciplinary exhibition organized by The Art and Culture Endowment Fund HY entitled Here We Reach all the Dreams of the...Read more -
ELDORAMA
Tripostal, Lille 27 April - 1 August 2019As part of lille3000, Abdelkader Benchamma and :mentalKLINIK were included in Eldorama that took place at Tripostal, conceptually unfolding the great story of Eldorado through...Read more -
GOLDEN ROOM
PALAIS DES BEAUX-ARTS, LILLE 27 April - 1 September 2019During Eldorado, the new cultural season of lille3000, several artists :mentalKLINIK, Mircea Cantor, Olga De Amaral, Kendell Geers, Laurent Grasso, Thomas Lélu invest in the...Read more -
OBNOXIOUSLY HAPPY
LA PATINOIRE ROYALE, BRUSSELS 7 September - 8 December 2018La Patinoire Royale / Galerie Valérie Bach presented OBNOXIOUSLY HAPPY, :mentalKLINIK’s first solo exhibition in Belgium. Their work is a mix of oxymorons and paradoxes,...Read more -
CATASTROPHICALLY GORGEOUS
Eugster || Belgrade, Serbia 13 September 2017 - 1 February 2018Eugster || Belgrade presented the first solo presentation of artist duo :mentalKLINIK titled CATASTROPHICALLY GORGEOUS. In this exhibition the artists probe a speculative approach of...Read more -
CO-OPERATION WOULD BE HIGHLY APPRECIATED
The Scad Museum Of Art, Define Art, Savannah, Georgia 4 February - 3 May 2015The SCAD Museum of Art presents 'CO-OPERATION WOULD BE HIGHLY APPRECIATED,' the first U.S. exhibition by Turkish duo :mentalKLINIK. As its name suggests, the practice...Read more -
That's Fucking Awesome
GALERIST, ISTANBUL HASKOY YARN FACTORY 17 September - 22 October 2011A pop up project curated by Jérôme Sans to live the experience of the :mentalKLINIK at Haskoy Yarn Factory. :mentalKLINIK is an infamous artistic duo...Read more -
TOMORROW NOW – WHEN DESIGN MEETS SCIENCE FICTION
MUSEE D’ART MODERNE GRAND-DUC JEAN LUXEMBOURG 25 May - 24 September 2007Conceived by Alexandra Midal and Björn Dahlström in collaboration with Mathieu Lehanneur, TOMORROW NOW - when design meets science fiction investigates the subject of science...Read more
News
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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 -
Dirimart Dolapdere
PARADISE ON SALE 3 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 -
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 -
Apalazzo Gallery, Brescia, Italy
SIGNS OF THE TIMES 19 December 2021Curated by Jérôme Sans Until 22 January 2022 Recent events that plunged the world into a state of global uncertainty have proven that there is...Read more -
Palace of Peace and Reconciliation / Palace of Independence, Astana
ASTANA ART SHOW 2019 | RACING THE GALAXY 9 July 2019Curated by Dina Baitassova and Jérôme Sans 4 July - 30 August 2019 For the 2019 edition, RACING THE GALAXY reports on the gradual dissolution...Read more -
Palais Des Beaux-Arts, Lille
GOLDEN ROOM 7 April 2019Curated by Jérôme Sans and Jean-Max Colard with the collaboration of Isabelle Bernini 27 April - 2 September 2019 During Eldorado, the new cultural season...Read more -
La Patinoire Royale, Brussels
OBNOXIOUSLY HAPPY 3 September 2018Curator: Jérôme Sans 7 September - 8 December La Patinoire Royale / Galerie Valérie Bach is happy to present OBNOXIOUSLY HAPPY, :mentalKLINIK’s first solo exhibition...Read more -
Eugster || Belgrade
CATASTROPHICALLY GORGEOUS 3 September 2018Curator: Yasmina Reggad 12 September - 1 December 2018 Eugster || Belgrade is thrilled to present the first Belgrade solo presentation of artist duo :mentalKLINIK:...Read more -
Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi
OBSCURE OBJECT: PERFORMED-FORMS, THE (0)(A)BJECT* 10 June 201824 - 28 June 2018 :mentalKLINIK will participate in a week-long artist residency as part of Abu Dhabi Art's partnership with Khalifa University of Science...Read more -
Galerie A, Izmir
EVRIM / EVOLVE 3 April 2018Curated by Dr Necmi Sönmez Organised by K2 Contemporary Art Centre 4 - 8 April 2018 The 4th edition of PortIzmir - Izmir International Contemporary...Read more
Press
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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
Publications
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(uyku) sleep
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83% Satisfaction Guaranteed
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art_ist magazine, 2007 (an insert book) 2007 Read more -
Contents
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OBNOXIOUSLY HAPPY
:mentalKLINIK 2018 Read more -
Out of Place
Vikram Divecha, Mohammed Kazem, :mentalKLINIK, Haleh Redjaian, Hassan Sharif, and Raed Yassin 2021 Read more -
Thank You For Your Cooperation
:mentalKLINIK 2014 Read more -
That’s Fucking Awesome
:mentalKLINIK 2012 Read more -
_ccidRnt
:mentalKLINIK. 2007 Read more -
{oyun}
:mentalKLINIK 2002 Read more