Yesim Akdeniz Graf
Perfect Love, 2010, oil on canvas, 200 x 280 cm
Yesim Akdeniz Graf was born 1978 in Izmir, Turkey. She studied at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Germany from 1997-2002. From 2002-2004 Akdeniz Graf went to Amsterdam thanks to the Postgraduate-Recidency-Programm „De Ateliers“. Today, she lives and works in Istanbul.
"Whenever Yesim Akdeniz Graf touches social history, gender, Hollywood and architecture in her promiscuous flight of butterflies, she is not up to make everything equal, she doesn't want to dissolve borders. The mutual fertilization of the just mentioned is rather her gentle wish. In Yesim Akdeniz Graf's mind maybe Marx dances at the glittering ball and changes once in a while his dancing partner. This time it's as usual Ms. Woolf or Mr. Passoloni, then the church again or just one of all the numerous present actresses, rejuvenating him with their pirouettes."
- Manuel Graf, 2006
"By associating various cultural vocabularies within a cinematographic dramaturgy, Akdeniz Graf grasps the transformative and tangible state of many current belief systems and worldviews, their clashes and possible downfalls..."
- Andrea Wiarda in Flash Art, 2005
"Whenever Yesim Akdeniz Graf touches social history, gender, Hollywood and architecture in her promiscuous flight of butterflies, she is not up to make everything equal, she doesn't want to dissolve borders. The mutual fertilization of the just mentioned is rather her gentle wish. In Yesim Akdeniz Graf's mind maybe Marx dances at the glittering ball and changes once in a while his dancing partner. This time it's as usual Ms. Woolf or Mr. Passoloni, then the church again or just one of all the numerous present actresses, rejuvenating him with their pirouettes."
- Manuel Graf, 2006
"By associating various cultural vocabularies within a cinematographic dramaturgy, Akdeniz Graf grasps the transformative and tangible state of many current belief systems and worldviews, their clashes and possible downfalls..."
- Andrea Wiarda in Flash Art, 2005