Elif Saydam, Hospitality, 2024, installation view. SFU Galleries | Audain Gallery, Vancouver, CA. Photo: Rachel Topham Photography.
Elif Saydam, Hospitality, 2024, installation view. SFU Galleries | Audain Gallery, Vancouver, CA. Photo: Rachel Topham Photography.
The Line for Leyla is Long, 2024, Japanese tinted silverleaf, 22 karat, 23 karat gold leaf, oil and cold wax medium on found toilet stall doors (c. 1920s, Manhattan), 60 x 28 x 2 in (152.40 x 71.12 x 5.08 cm)
Old Money, 2024, Modelling paste, plastic spoon, 23 karat gold leaf and oil on linen, 11 x 8.5 in (27.94 x 21.59 cm)
Myopia (I), 2024, Oil on linen, 11 x 8.5 in (27.94 x 21.59 cm)
Queer Banking for Everybody, 2022, Collage, varnish and oil paint on primed kitchen sponge, 2.7 x 4.3 x 0.8 in (7 x 11 x 2 cm)
Abstraction (I), 2022, Collage, varnish and oil paint on primed kitchen sponge, 4.3 x 2.7 x 1.2 in (11 x 7 x 3 cm)
Sleeplessness with Bob aka Death Sonata, 2019-2022, 23k gold, copper, inkjet transfer dye and oil on hand-stitched canvas and linen, 78.75 x 90.5 in (200 x 230 cm)
Late night shop, 2022, 23k gold, chocolate wrapper, graphite, inkjet print and oil on linen, 46.9 x 33.1 x 1.6 in (119 x 84 x 4 cm)
Night store, 2022, Pure silver, chocolate wrappers, graphite, inkjet print and oil on linen, 46.9 x 33.1 x 1.6 in (119 x 84 x 4 cm)
Zu spät (VI), 2022, 23k gold, inkjet print and oil on canvas, 11.8 x 8.3 x .8 in (30 x 21 x 2 cm)
Selling out, 2022, 23k gold, inkjet print and oil on canvas, 11.8 x 8.3 x .8 in (30 x 21 x 2 cm)
...Schläft sich durch, 2021, exhibition view, Kunstverin Harburger Banhof, Hamburg, DE
The Drone I and II, 2021, Nazar charms, wild oats, raffia, silk, eyelets, inkjet transfers and squid ink on jute, steel frames, 98.4 x 67 in (250 x 170 cm)
The Producer I and II, 2021, Farfalle pasta, 24 karat gold, copper, orange slices, beads, sequins, embroidery, eyelets, inkjet transfers, oil on denim, steel frames, 98.4 x 67 in (250 x 170 cm)
Blue Saloon, 2021, Custom printed carpet, 265.7 x 96.7 in (675 x 500 cm)
Lose Ended, 2021, exhibition view, Kunsthalle Bern, SE
Lose Ended, 2021, exhibition view, Kunsthalle Bern, SE
Work jacket c. future, 2020, Melange, Cologne, DE
Work trousers c. future, 2020, Melange, Cologne, DE
Daily stretch, 2019, Stadium, Berlin, DE
what me worry, 2019, exhibition view, Stadium, Berlin, DE
See you in the darkness, brother, 2019, Inkjet transfer, fresh cut flowers, aluminum grommets on dyed canvas, mounted on poplar board
la belle dame sans merci, 2019, Laminated inkjet prints on acetate, steel rings
Collaborative novel by Vera Palme and Elif Saydam for Broken Dimanche Press, 2018
Elif Saydam
b. Calgary, CA
Lives and works in Berlin, DE
Education
2016 Meisterschülerin, Class Monika Baer/Amy Sillman, Städelschule Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künst, Frankfurt am Main, DE
2009 Bachelor of Fine Arts with Distinction, Fibre Arts, Concordia University, Montréal, CA
Solo & Two Person Exhibitions
2024 Kunsthal Thy, Thy, DK
2024 Hospitality, SFU Galleries | Audain Gallery, Vancouver, CA
2024 Stealth, Gallery Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich, DE
2023 Eviction Notice, Oakville Galleries, Gairloch Gardens, Toronto, CA
2022 Cleaning up the neighbourhood, All Stars, Lausanne, CH
2022 F*rgiveness, Tanya Leighton, Berlin, DE
2021 ...schläft sich durch, Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof, Hamburg, DE
2021 Shane (with Beth Collar), Zarinbal Khoshbahkt, Cologne, DE
2020 Everybody’s Fool, Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich, DE
2020 Gut feeling, Tanya Leighton, Berlin, DE
2020 glücksfall (with Leonie Nagel), The Tail, Brussels, BE
2020 Selfing, Melange, Cologne, DE
2019 What me worry, Stadium, Berlin, DE
2019 La belle dame sans merci, Franz Kaka, Toronto, CA
2018 Colt Jonner's Desecration of Descent (with Vera Palme), Berlin Art Week, DE
2017 No R.E.M., Ashley, Berlin, DE
2016 Matador, Kunstverein Albrecht Dürer Gesellschaft, Nuremberg, DE
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024 A Crack We Sprout Through, Sanatorium, Istanbul, TR
2023 die Wissen, neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst, Berlin, DE
2023 Half Life, Franz Kaka, Toronto, CA (organized by Elif Saydam)
2023 die Wissen, Taxispalais, Innsbruck, AT
2023 Doch alle eine Insel?, GAK Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen, DE
2023 POTSBLITZPAINTING, Potsdamer Str. 103, Berline, DE
2022 ENTER_NATURE, Galerie im Körnerpark, Berlin, DE
2022 Playing with Bones, La Traverse, Marseille, FR
2022 Zoom Schönen Knie II, Doom Spa, Berlin, DE
2022 Dogtooth, Helena Anrather, New York, US
2021 Lose Enden, Kunsthalle Bern, CH
2021 CASA UOVO, Sangt Hipolyt, Berlin, DE
2021 Von der schenkenden Tugend, Zarinbal Khoshbahkt, Cologne, DE
2021 Jahresgaben, Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof, Hamburg, DE
2020 Luxury and Glamour. The Wilfulness of the Superfluous, Landes-Stiftung Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck, Bonn, DE
2020 Perhaps A window? stadium, Berlin, DE
2020 Reality, Tropez, Berlin, DE
2020 Kartoffelmuseum, Stallmuseum, Berlin-Brandenburg, DE
2020 Times in Crisis, Klosterruine, Berlin 2019 Network Error, INOX, Copenhagen, DK
2019 Made in Balmoral, Künstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral, Bad Ems, DE
2019 Horizontalisierung 2030, Winterfeldtstr 41, Berlin, DE
2019 Real Books (Extraordinary Tales), Jan Kaps, Cologne, DE
2018 Still Life, Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich, DE
2018 Emic etic, Between Bridges, Berlin, DE
2017 Young Positions, Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich, DE
2017 Pressing your face in wet grass, privateOFFSPACE, Frankfurt am Main, DE
2016 Jahresgaben, Kunstverein Nürnberg Albrecht Dürer Gesellschaft, Nuremberg, DE
2016 Marianne-Defet-Malerei-Stipendium, Kunsthalle Nürnberg, DE
2016 Croissant, MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, DE
2016 31 Women, Philipp Pflug Contemporary, Frankfurt am Main, DE
2015 Random Rules, Black Flagg, Aschaffenberg, DE
2015 Let me see you see me, AtelierFrankfurt, RAY Photography Festival, Frankfurt am Main, DE
2014 This Area is Under 23 Hour Video and Audio Surveillance, Jackman Humanities Institute, University of Toronto, CA
2013 Effects of a Room, G Gallery, Toronto, CA
Performances & Readings
2023 Lecture/workshop, Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen, DK
2023 Lecture, California State University, California, US
2022 Sparta-X-Elif Saydam, Lecture, Sparta Kunstakademie Düsseldorf
2022 Two Cents, Reading, Hopscotch, Berlin, DE
2022 F*RGIVENESS, Lecture, Berlin Art Institute, DE
2021 Chomp. Spit. Bite, Online lecture/performance, Academy of Fine Arts, Nürnberg, DE
2021 The House Always Wins, Online lecture, Städelschule, Frankkfurt Am Main, DE
2021 ...schläfen sich durch, Südlese Festival Hamburg, DE
2020 Empathy When, Broken Dimanche Podcast Series, Berlin, DE
2020 Selfing, Cashmere Radio, Berlin, DE
2019 Von Fleisch und Zucker, Montez Press Radio, Hamburg, DE
2019 Desecration of Descent (with Vera Palme and Stefan Müller), Cologne Art Book Fair, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, DE
2019 DOD for die Marmory Show IV (with Vera Palme), Deborah Schamoni, Munich, DE
2019 Pure Fyction Mausoleum, Johan, Frankfurt am Main, DE
2019 Karaoke Kongress, Babes Bar, Berlin, DE
2018 Desecration of Descent: Marathon Reading and Flesh Roast, Büro BDP, Berlin, DE
2018 Damp Down, Skeppsta hyutta for Gnesta Konstrunda, Gnesta, SE
2018 Die Welt und das Schwimmbad, Tropez Tropez, Berlin, DE
2018 Pure Fyction, an Un-trodyction, Ashley, Berlin, DE
2018 Telephone: Act II, Miss St's Hieroglphyic Suffering, KunstWerke, Berlin, DE
2018 Cool Ranch Honky Tonk (with Alex Turgeon), Babes Bar, Berlin, DE
2017 Builder and Demon (with Rosa Aiello), éclair, Berlin, DE
2017 Eröffnungspanel: Performance im Informationszeitalter (with Erika Landström), Schiefe Zähne, Berlin, DE
2017 Produktion: MADE IN GERMANY DREI, IMPURE Fiction presents ... der Kaukasische Kreidekreis von Brecht, Kestnergesellschaft, Sprengel Museum, Kunstverein Hannover, DE
2017 Friday the 13th Full Moon in Cancer presents tears, Cave 3000, Berlin, DE
2016 The Grand Balcony: La Biennale de Montréal, IMPURE Fiction presents. . . Le Misanthrope 1666, Société des arts technologiques, Montréal, CA
2016 Major Canis Minor, Kunstverein Nürnberg Albrecht Dürer Gesellschaft, Nuremberg, DE
2016 Pure Fiction: Belly of the Whale, Johan, Frankfurt am Main, DE
2015 Romeo und Juliet, Lichthalle Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main, DE
2015 The Floor is Fine (with George Rippon), Fische Frank, Frankfurt am Main, DE
2015 Imbiss on Island Time, Portikus, Frankfurt am Main, DE
2014 Dysfiction I, Lichthalle Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main, DE
2014 PATINA OVERHANG, Klondike Institute of Art and Culture, Dawson City, CA
Publications
2022 Elif Saydam: TWO CENTS, artist monograph, Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach-Stiftung, Mousse Publishing, IT
2020 Interjection Calendar, Montez Press, London, UK
2020 Luxus & Glamour: vom Eigensinn des Überflussigen, Künstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral, Bonn, DE
2020 Interjection Calendar, Montez Press, London, UK
2019 Colt Jonner's Desecration of Descent, Broken Dimanche Press, Berlin, DE
2019 PF The Bastard, PureFiction, Cologne, DE
2018 Pure Fyction, Städelschule, Pure Fiction, Frankfurt am Main, DE
2017 Produktion. Made in Germany Drei.
2017 Pyre Fiction. Städelschule, Pure Fiction, Frankfurt am Main, DE
2016 The Grand Balcony: BNL MTL. La Biennale de Montréal, CA
2016 Eye to Eye, The Capilano Review, Vancouver, CA
2016 Dysfyction III, Städelschule, Pure Fiction, Frankfurt am Main, DE
2015 Pure Fyction Pamphlet Series, Städelschule, Pure Fiction, Frankfurt am Main, DE
2015 Dysfyction II, Städelschule, Pure Fiction, Frankfurt am Main, DE
2014 Dysfyction I, Städelschule, Pure Fiction, Frankfurt am Main, DE
Bibliography
2023 Xenia Benivolski, ‘Elif Saydam Articulates Neighbourhood Aesthetics’, Frieze.com, October
2023 Maxi Wallenhorst, ‘The Anatomist, The Poet’, Texte Zur Kunst, March
2022 Mitch Speed, ‘Nothing Lasts Forever Until it Does’, Camera Austria, issue 159
2022 Nina Prader, ‘Elif Saydam’, Berlin Art Link, July
2022 Elena Meilicke, ‘Grief and Resilience’, Texte Zur Kunst, June
2021 Jens Althoff, ‘... schläft sich durch’, Artforum, September
2021 Miriam Bettin, ‘Every ticket wins: hyperpositivity in the work of Elif Saydam’, Conceptual Fine Arts, 14 June
2021 Sonja Maria Borstner, ‘Elif Saydam: Ein Blick hinter die Geschichten des öffentlichen Raums,’ Berliner Zeitung, 18 April
2020 Harry Burke, ‘Elif Saydam’, Canadian Art, Winter issue
2020 ‘Elif Saydam, Artists (Kotti)’, Artam Magazine, November issue
2020 Sonja-Maria Borstner, ‘Critic's Guide, Elif Saydam at Tanya Leighton’, Frieze.com
2020 Olivia Giovetti, ‘Gallery Weekend Berlin's Must-See Shows, Elif Saydam at Tanya Leighton’, Artsy.com
2020 Kristian Vistrup Madsen, ‘Working Nine to Five Five Five: Elif Saydam’, Mousse Magazine, issue 71
2020 Ophelia Lai, ‘Elif Saydam’, Art Asia Pacific, issue 117
2019 Stanton Taylor, ‘Critic’s Pick, Elif Saydam at Stadium’, Artforum.com
2019 Stephanie Ling, ‘Elif Saydam at Franz Kaka’, Flash Art International, #325
2016 Rosa Aiello, Vera Palme, Mark von Schlegell and Simone Neuenschwander, Matador, Kunstverein Nürnberg/Institut für moderne Kunst Nürnberg
Residencies
2019 Künstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral, Stiftung Rheinland-Pfalz für Kultur
2017 Berlin Program for Artists, Berlin, DE
2012 Banff Centre Spring Thematic: LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL STOP PLEASE ALLOW FEATURES ASSUME EXPRESSION INDICATIVE OF AMUSEMENT JOY PLEASURE BENEVOLENCE STOP, Banff Centre for the Arts, CA
2012 Samband Islenskra Myndlistarmanna/Association of Icelandic Artists. Reykjavik, IS
Awards & Grants
2023 Hessiches Kulturstiftung, Atelier Stipendium New York, US
2022 Canada Council for the Arts
2021 Kunstfonds NEUSTART Kultur, Germany, DE
2021 Canada Council for the Arts
2021 Singular Plurality: Canada in Germany, Frankfurt Book Fair
2020 Kunstfonds Neustart Kultur, Kunstfonds Bonn
2020 Research and Creation Grant, Canada Council for the Arts
2020 Singular Plurality: Canada in Germany
2019 Travel Grant, Canada Council for the Arts
2019 Singular Plurality: Canada in Germany
2018 Sobey Award Longlist, National Gallery of Canada
2018 RFSU Ottarfonden, Skeppsta hyutta, Gnesta, SE
2018 Production grant, Canadian Embassy in Germany
2017 Production grant, Canadian Embassy in Germany
2016 Marianne-Defet-Malerei-Stipendium, Da Vinci Pinselfabrik / Kunstverein Nürnberg Albrecht Dürer Gesellschaft, Nuremberg, DE
2016 Production grant, Canadian Embassy in Germany
2016 Linklaters LLP Prize for Painting, Städelschule Rundgang
2012 Professional Development Award, British Columbia Arts Council
2009 The Betty Goodwin Award in Studio Arts, Concordia University, Prix du centre des arts et des fibres du Québec, Concordia University/Diagonale Centre des arts et des fibres du Québec
Collections
Sammlung zeitgenössischer Kunst der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, DE
Neuer Berliner Kunstverein Artothek, DE
b. Calgary, CA
Lives and works in Berlin, DE
Education
2016 Meisterschülerin, Class Monika Baer/Amy Sillman, Städelschule Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künst, Frankfurt am Main, DE
2009 Bachelor of Fine Arts with Distinction, Fibre Arts, Concordia University, Montréal, CA
Solo & Two Person Exhibitions
2024 Kunsthal Thy, Thy, DK
2024 Hospitality, SFU Galleries | Audain Gallery, Vancouver, CA
2024 Stealth, Gallery Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich, DE
2023 Eviction Notice, Oakville Galleries, Gairloch Gardens, Toronto, CA
2022 Cleaning up the neighbourhood, All Stars, Lausanne, CH
2022 F*rgiveness, Tanya Leighton, Berlin, DE
2021 ...schläft sich durch, Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof, Hamburg, DE
2021 Shane (with Beth Collar), Zarinbal Khoshbahkt, Cologne, DE
2020 Everybody’s Fool, Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich, DE
2020 Gut feeling, Tanya Leighton, Berlin, DE
2020 glücksfall (with Leonie Nagel), The Tail, Brussels, BE
2020 Selfing, Melange, Cologne, DE
2019 What me worry, Stadium, Berlin, DE
2019 La belle dame sans merci, Franz Kaka, Toronto, CA
2018 Colt Jonner's Desecration of Descent (with Vera Palme), Berlin Art Week, DE
2017 No R.E.M., Ashley, Berlin, DE
2016 Matador, Kunstverein Albrecht Dürer Gesellschaft, Nuremberg, DE
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024 A Crack We Sprout Through, Sanatorium, Istanbul, TR
2023 die Wissen, neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst, Berlin, DE
2023 Half Life, Franz Kaka, Toronto, CA (organized by Elif Saydam)
2023 die Wissen, Taxispalais, Innsbruck, AT
2023 Doch alle eine Insel?, GAK Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen, DE
2023 POTSBLITZPAINTING, Potsdamer Str. 103, Berline, DE
2022 ENTER_NATURE, Galerie im Körnerpark, Berlin, DE
2022 Playing with Bones, La Traverse, Marseille, FR
2022 Zoom Schönen Knie II, Doom Spa, Berlin, DE
2022 Dogtooth, Helena Anrather, New York, US
2021 Lose Enden, Kunsthalle Bern, CH
2021 CASA UOVO, Sangt Hipolyt, Berlin, DE
2021 Von der schenkenden Tugend, Zarinbal Khoshbahkt, Cologne, DE
2021 Jahresgaben, Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof, Hamburg, DE
2020 Luxury and Glamour. The Wilfulness of the Superfluous, Landes-Stiftung Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck, Bonn, DE
2020 Perhaps A window? stadium, Berlin, DE
2020 Reality, Tropez, Berlin, DE
2020 Kartoffelmuseum, Stallmuseum, Berlin-Brandenburg, DE
2020 Times in Crisis, Klosterruine, Berlin 2019 Network Error, INOX, Copenhagen, DK
2019 Made in Balmoral, Künstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral, Bad Ems, DE
2019 Horizontalisierung 2030, Winterfeldtstr 41, Berlin, DE
2019 Real Books (Extraordinary Tales), Jan Kaps, Cologne, DE
2018 Still Life, Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich, DE
2018 Emic etic, Between Bridges, Berlin, DE
2017 Young Positions, Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich, DE
2017 Pressing your face in wet grass, privateOFFSPACE, Frankfurt am Main, DE
2016 Jahresgaben, Kunstverein Nürnberg Albrecht Dürer Gesellschaft, Nuremberg, DE
2016 Marianne-Defet-Malerei-Stipendium, Kunsthalle Nürnberg, DE
2016 Croissant, MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, DE
2016 31 Women, Philipp Pflug Contemporary, Frankfurt am Main, DE
2015 Random Rules, Black Flagg, Aschaffenberg, DE
2015 Let me see you see me, AtelierFrankfurt, RAY Photography Festival, Frankfurt am Main, DE
2014 This Area is Under 23 Hour Video and Audio Surveillance, Jackman Humanities Institute, University of Toronto, CA
2013 Effects of a Room, G Gallery, Toronto, CA
Performances & Readings
2023 Lecture/workshop, Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen, DK
2023 Lecture, California State University, California, US
2022 Sparta-X-Elif Saydam, Lecture, Sparta Kunstakademie Düsseldorf
2022 Two Cents, Reading, Hopscotch, Berlin, DE
2022 F*RGIVENESS, Lecture, Berlin Art Institute, DE
2021 Chomp. Spit. Bite, Online lecture/performance, Academy of Fine Arts, Nürnberg, DE
2021 The House Always Wins, Online lecture, Städelschule, Frankkfurt Am Main, DE
2021 ...schläfen sich durch, Südlese Festival Hamburg, DE
2020 Empathy When, Broken Dimanche Podcast Series, Berlin, DE
2020 Selfing, Cashmere Radio, Berlin, DE
2019 Von Fleisch und Zucker, Montez Press Radio, Hamburg, DE
2019 Desecration of Descent (with Vera Palme and Stefan Müller), Cologne Art Book Fair, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, DE
2019 DOD for die Marmory Show IV (with Vera Palme), Deborah Schamoni, Munich, DE
2019 Pure Fyction Mausoleum, Johan, Frankfurt am Main, DE
2019 Karaoke Kongress, Babes Bar, Berlin, DE
2018 Desecration of Descent: Marathon Reading and Flesh Roast, Büro BDP, Berlin, DE
2018 Damp Down, Skeppsta hyutta for Gnesta Konstrunda, Gnesta, SE
2018 Die Welt und das Schwimmbad, Tropez Tropez, Berlin, DE
2018 Pure Fyction, an Un-trodyction, Ashley, Berlin, DE
2018 Telephone: Act II, Miss St's Hieroglphyic Suffering, KunstWerke, Berlin, DE
2018 Cool Ranch Honky Tonk (with Alex Turgeon), Babes Bar, Berlin, DE
2017 Builder and Demon (with Rosa Aiello), éclair, Berlin, DE
2017 Eröffnungspanel: Performance im Informationszeitalter (with Erika Landström), Schiefe Zähne, Berlin, DE
2017 Produktion: MADE IN GERMANY DREI, IMPURE Fiction presents ... der Kaukasische Kreidekreis von Brecht, Kestnergesellschaft, Sprengel Museum, Kunstverein Hannover, DE
2017 Friday the 13th Full Moon in Cancer presents tears, Cave 3000, Berlin, DE
2016 The Grand Balcony: La Biennale de Montréal, IMPURE Fiction presents. . . Le Misanthrope 1666, Société des arts technologiques, Montréal, CA
2016 Major Canis Minor, Kunstverein Nürnberg Albrecht Dürer Gesellschaft, Nuremberg, DE
2016 Pure Fiction: Belly of the Whale, Johan, Frankfurt am Main, DE
2015 Romeo und Juliet, Lichthalle Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main, DE
2015 The Floor is Fine (with George Rippon), Fische Frank, Frankfurt am Main, DE
2015 Imbiss on Island Time, Portikus, Frankfurt am Main, DE
2014 Dysfiction I, Lichthalle Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main, DE
2014 PATINA OVERHANG, Klondike Institute of Art and Culture, Dawson City, CA
Publications
2022 Elif Saydam: TWO CENTS, artist monograph, Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach-Stiftung, Mousse Publishing, IT
2020 Interjection Calendar, Montez Press, London, UK
2020 Luxus & Glamour: vom Eigensinn des Überflussigen, Künstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral, Bonn, DE
2020 Interjection Calendar, Montez Press, London, UK
2019 Colt Jonner's Desecration of Descent, Broken Dimanche Press, Berlin, DE
2019 PF The Bastard, PureFiction, Cologne, DE
2018 Pure Fyction, Städelschule, Pure Fiction, Frankfurt am Main, DE
2017 Produktion. Made in Germany Drei.
2017 Pyre Fiction. Städelschule, Pure Fiction, Frankfurt am Main, DE
2016 The Grand Balcony: BNL MTL. La Biennale de Montréal, CA
2016 Eye to Eye, The Capilano Review, Vancouver, CA
2016 Dysfyction III, Städelschule, Pure Fiction, Frankfurt am Main, DE
2015 Pure Fyction Pamphlet Series, Städelschule, Pure Fiction, Frankfurt am Main, DE
2015 Dysfyction II, Städelschule, Pure Fiction, Frankfurt am Main, DE
2014 Dysfyction I, Städelschule, Pure Fiction, Frankfurt am Main, DE
Bibliography
2023 Xenia Benivolski, ‘Elif Saydam Articulates Neighbourhood Aesthetics’, Frieze.com, October
2023 Maxi Wallenhorst, ‘The Anatomist, The Poet’, Texte Zur Kunst, March
2022 Mitch Speed, ‘Nothing Lasts Forever Until it Does’, Camera Austria, issue 159
2022 Nina Prader, ‘Elif Saydam’, Berlin Art Link, July
2022 Elena Meilicke, ‘Grief and Resilience’, Texte Zur Kunst, June
2021 Jens Althoff, ‘... schläft sich durch’, Artforum, September
2021 Miriam Bettin, ‘Every ticket wins: hyperpositivity in the work of Elif Saydam’, Conceptual Fine Arts, 14 June
2021 Sonja Maria Borstner, ‘Elif Saydam: Ein Blick hinter die Geschichten des öffentlichen Raums,’ Berliner Zeitung, 18 April
2020 Harry Burke, ‘Elif Saydam’, Canadian Art, Winter issue
2020 ‘Elif Saydam, Artists (Kotti)’, Artam Magazine, November issue
2020 Sonja-Maria Borstner, ‘Critic's Guide, Elif Saydam at Tanya Leighton’, Frieze.com
2020 Olivia Giovetti, ‘Gallery Weekend Berlin's Must-See Shows, Elif Saydam at Tanya Leighton’, Artsy.com
2020 Kristian Vistrup Madsen, ‘Working Nine to Five Five Five: Elif Saydam’, Mousse Magazine, issue 71
2020 Ophelia Lai, ‘Elif Saydam’, Art Asia Pacific, issue 117
2019 Stanton Taylor, ‘Critic’s Pick, Elif Saydam at Stadium’, Artforum.com
2019 Stephanie Ling, ‘Elif Saydam at Franz Kaka’, Flash Art International, #325
2016 Rosa Aiello, Vera Palme, Mark von Schlegell and Simone Neuenschwander, Matador, Kunstverein Nürnberg/Institut für moderne Kunst Nürnberg
Residencies
2019 Künstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral, Stiftung Rheinland-Pfalz für Kultur
2017 Berlin Program for Artists, Berlin, DE
2012 Banff Centre Spring Thematic: LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL STOP PLEASE ALLOW FEATURES ASSUME EXPRESSION INDICATIVE OF AMUSEMENT JOY PLEASURE BENEVOLENCE STOP, Banff Centre for the Arts, CA
2012 Samband Islenskra Myndlistarmanna/Association of Icelandic Artists. Reykjavik, IS
Awards & Grants
2023 Hessiches Kulturstiftung, Atelier Stipendium New York, US
2022 Canada Council for the Arts
2021 Kunstfonds NEUSTART Kultur, Germany, DE
2021 Canada Council for the Arts
2021 Singular Plurality: Canada in Germany, Frankfurt Book Fair
2020 Kunstfonds Neustart Kultur, Kunstfonds Bonn
2020 Research and Creation Grant, Canada Council for the Arts
2020 Singular Plurality: Canada in Germany
2019 Travel Grant, Canada Council for the Arts
2019 Singular Plurality: Canada in Germany
2018 Sobey Award Longlist, National Gallery of Canada
2018 RFSU Ottarfonden, Skeppsta hyutta, Gnesta, SE
2018 Production grant, Canadian Embassy in Germany
2017 Production grant, Canadian Embassy in Germany
2016 Marianne-Defet-Malerei-Stipendium, Da Vinci Pinselfabrik / Kunstverein Nürnberg Albrecht Dürer Gesellschaft, Nuremberg, DE
2016 Production grant, Canadian Embassy in Germany
2016 Linklaters LLP Prize for Painting, Städelschule Rundgang
2012 Professional Development Award, British Columbia Arts Council
2009 The Betty Goodwin Award in Studio Arts, Concordia University, Prix du centre des arts et des fibres du Québec, Concordia University/Diagonale Centre des arts et des fibres du Québec
Collections
Sammlung zeitgenössischer Kunst der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, DE
Neuer Berliner Kunstverein Artothek, DE