Artists

Tayfun Pirselimoğlu

Born in Trabzon. Pirselimoğlu graduated from Middle East Technical University after which he went to Vienna and enrolled at Hochschule für Angewandte Kunst where he studied under Professor Wolfgang Hutter, one of the most important names in the Vienna School of Fantastic Realism. He also studied engraving under Professor Sigi Schenk.

Pirselimoğlu held various solo and joint exhibitions in Turkey and abroad. His drawings have been published in a number of magazines. He is one of the founders of the independent art initiative ‘Akademie Genius’ where he has conducted workshops and given classes.

Pirselimoğlu wrote and directed the films ‘Innowhereland’, ‘Rıza’, ‘Haze’, ‘Hair’, ‘I’m not Him’, ‘Sideway’ and ‘Kerr’. He was also nominated for an Oscar for the movie 'Kerr'. He is the author of seven novels (‘Tales from the Desert’, ‘The Album of the Lost People’, ‘Melancholy’, ‘Towers of the City’, ‘Kerr’, ‘Barber’, ‘Surveyor’) and three story books (‘Hotel Rooms’, ‘The Newest Lives of Harry Lime or Praise to the Third Man’, ‘The Other Side of the Desert’)

Group Exhibitions

2023 - “Equinox”, Istanbul Concept Gallery, Istanbul, TR
2023 - “Freedom is Your Character”, Istanbul Concept Gallery, International 360° Love Festival, Istanbul, TR
2022 - “Demokratik 100”, Istanbul Concept Studio, Istanbul, TR
2022 - “10x10”, Istanbul Concept Gallery, Istanbul, TR
2019 - Gallery of Austria Cultural Office, Istanbul, TR
2015 - Art Gallery, Pesaro, IT
2013 - Milli Reasürans Gallery, Istanbul, TR
2012 - Greek Film Archive Gallery, Athens, GR
2011 - Atlas Gallery, Ankara, TR
2007 - Atlas Gallery, Ankara, TR
2005 - Milli Reasürans Gallery, Istanbul, TR
1999 -Raatus Gallery, Tallinn, EST
1998 - Osiris Gallery, Budapest, HU
1996 - AAI Galerie Karl Storbl, Vienna, AT
1993 - Taksim Art Gallery, Istanbul, TR
1992 - Vakko Beyoğlu Art Gallery, Istanbul, TR
1990 - Atelier 52, Vienna AT
1998 - Galery Galata, Vienna, AT

Selected Works

Topsyturvy I, 2024
Mixed media on paper, 78 x 111 cm.

His Serene Highness I, 2024
Ink on paper, 78 x 48 cm.

Batman, 2024
Mixed media on paper, 74 x 56 cm.

His Serene Highness III, 2024
Ink on paper, 55,5 x 39,5 cm.

Boxing Match, 2024
Mixed media on paper, 63,5 x 51 cm

Monsieur Loti, 2024
Oil on canvas, 70 x 50 cm.

Rhino in the Battle Zone I, 2024
Mixed media on paper, 42 x 82 cm.

Rhino in the Battle Zone II, 2024
Mixed media on paper, 34,5 x 54,5 cm.

Crowd I, 2024
Mixed media on paper, 44 x 59 cm.

Himmel Über Berlin, 2024
Mixed media on paper, 56 x 33 cm.

Man I, 2024
Mixed media on paper, 56 x 42 cm.

Two Men, 2024
Mixed media on paper, 53,5 x 57 cm.

Blues Brothers, 2024
Ink on paper, 44 x 67 cm.

Herr Beckmann in Tuxedo, 2024
Mixed media on acetate, 44,5 x 38 cm.

Dog Race Started, 2024
Mixed media on paper, 67,5 x 51,5 cm.

Bureaucrat, 2024
Mixed media on paper, 46 x 26 cm.

Crowd III, 2024
Ink on paper, 77 x 51,5 cm.

Topsyturvy II, 2024
Mixed media on paper, 78 x 111 cm.

His Serene Highness II, 2024
Mixed media on paper, 63,5 x 51 cm.

Topsyturvy III, 2023
Ink on paper, 67 x 111 cm.

Rhino, 2023
Oil on canvas, 50 x 70 cm.

Man II, 2023
Ink on paper, 67 x 52 cm.

Joker, 2023
Ink on paper, 63 x 52 cm.

Crowd II, 2023
Mixed media on paper, 50,5 x 33 cm.

Face II, 2023
Ink on paper, 43,5 x 37,5 cm

Don Quixote, 2023
Oil on canvas, 100 x 70 cm.

Unknown Soldier 2, 2022
Ink on paper, 60 x 49,5 cm.

Fear 1, 2022
Ink on paper, 50 x 27 cm.

Our Circus is Open Now, 2022
Ink on paper, 50 x 70 cm.

Madding Crowd 2, 2022
Ink on paper, 50.5 x 71.5 cm.

Unknown Soldier 1, 2022
Ink on paper, 52 x 37.5 cm.

Unknown Soldier 5, 2022
Mixed media on paper, 108 x 78 cm.

Pasha with Bird, 2022
Mixed media on paper, 101 x 72 cm.

Max Abdullah II, 2022
Mixed media on paper, 100 x 70 cm.

Herr Beckmann in Schwarz, 2021
Mixed media on paper, 100 x 67 cm.

You Do Not Know That Trick, 2021
Oil on canvas, 140 x 100 cm.

Abdullah Pasha, 2013
Mixed media on paper, 107 x 76.5 cm.

Boxer, 2013
Acrylic on paper, 70 x 32 cm.