Originally from İskenderun, Turkey, Bilge Emine Arslan is a visual artist, researcher, and art mediator whose artistic journey is shaped by themes of migration, identity, ecology, justice production, and landscapes. Holding an MA in Spatial Strategies from Weißensee Kunsthochschule, she creates her projects with a variety of media, including video installations, photography, ceramics, and drawing. Her projects have been displayed in various exhibition spaces like Spore Initiative—in the scope of Berlin Art Week—(2024) and Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien(2023). She has received support through grants such as DAAD Promos for her field research and explored the intersections of narratives and socio-political landscapes as an artist-in-residence at ZK/U in Berlin in between 2024-2025.
Awards and Residencies
2026 Max-Artist in Residence an Schulen, through Stiftung Brandenburger Tor, Berlin
2024-2025 ZK/U Artist Residency Programm
2022 DAAD Promos, Field Research Scholarship
2019 Inside/Outside, Weißensee Kunsthochschule, Bangladesch
Workshops
2025 Colaklar Village, Narattive storrytelling and painting with kids and Grandparents.
2025 Workshop with Türkischer Frauenverein Berlin e.V. through Orta Okul Project2025 Workshop with Kids at Spore Initiative, through Young Arts Diversity Neukölln
2024 Workshop with Kids at Berlin City Museum Ephraim Palace, throug the Jugend im Museum e.V.
Conferences and Press
2024 Spore Initiative
https://spore-initiative.org/en/programming/participate/wasserspiegel-water-bodies
2023 Participation at Istanbul Bilgi University, “On Land and Sea: Conference on Topographical Imagination and the Moving Image” with my video installation work “ASI RIVER”.
https://ftvconference.bilgi.edu.tr/en/at-land-and-sea/
2023 Group Exhibition, The Other Side of Water 2.0
Publications
2023 HER YER KAZDAĞLARI (EVERYWHERE KAZDAĞLARI)
On gold extractivism in Turkey and resistance, Arts of Working Class Magazine
https://artsoftheworkingclass.org/text/her-yer-kazdalari-everywhere-kazdalari
2021 Artifact Illustration of the Book: “The World of Figurines in the Neolithic and Chalcolithic Aegean -The case of Uğurlu Höyük on Gökçeada (Imbros)” written by Hasan Gemici and Cigdem Atakuman published in 2021 by BAR Publishing, Oxford
Solo Exhibitions
2023 Solo Graduation Exhibition, “ASI RIVER AND THE NEW ALPHABET”, SCOTTY-Artist Run Project Space, Berlin, Germany
2013 Solo Graduation Exhibition, “VULNERABILITY” Collection of Multidisciplinary Works, Anadolu University, Eskisehir, Turkey
Selected Exhibitions
2025 PLANT STORIES #3, Grapes, Land, and Resistance: Letter-Based Dialogue, Solo exhibition, ZK/U- Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistic, Berlin, Germany
2024 Dive Deeper, Berlin Art Week, Asi River and New Alphabet, SPORE Initiative, Berlin, Germany
2023 The Other Side of Water 2.0, Group Show, “ASI RIVER AND THE NEW ALPHABET”,
Projektraum Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
2020 Collecting Momentum #2, Group Show,“Everything is Over or Just Starting?” Acrylic Painting over Canvas, Officina Neukölln, Berlin, Germany
2020 Politic Poetic des Raumes, Group Show, “Ost-West Späti” Video Installation,
N.B.K., Berlin, Germany
2019 Rundgang, RECONSTRUCTION OF THE EXPERIENCE IN KARAIL, Wood installation with Ready-Made Textile Collage, Kunsthochschule Weißensee, Berlin, Germany
2015 Internationales Terrakotta-Symposium, Group Show, “CIVI” 3 Nail Installation On Conctere, Üretim/Bandı, Former ETI Factory, Eskisehir, Turkey
2014 Rundgang, “SELF PORTRAIT” Acrylic Painting 120*100, Anadolu University,
Eskisehir, Turkey
2011 Sculpture Group Exhibition, “CERAMIC HEAD”, University of Ljubljana,
Ljubljana, Slovenia