Eşref Yıldırım – Dissolution Performance will meet the audience at Armonia Bodrum Houses Chapel on September 5th.
Eşref Yıldırım focuses on themes of media representation, power dynamics, and social taboos. His works explore the lives of individuals shaped by the pressures of social hierarchies, gender roles, and racial prejudice. Using recycled materials and maintaining a strong connection with painting, he reflects on these structures in a way that feels personal yet universal. Narrative plays an important role in Yıldırım’s work. Each piece carries traces of shared and individual histories, often shaped by the context and space in which they are presented.
Eşref Yıldırım (*1978, Turkey) lives and works in Istanbul. He graduated with a BA and MA from the Painting Department at Mimar Sinan University. His recent solo shows includes; MAI-In Dialogue with Joseph Beuys (Schloss Moyland Museum, Bedburg-Hau, 2025), Days, Verses, Knots, Clear As Days (Çankaya Municipality, Ankara, 2025), Dust and Mold (Zilberman Berlin, 2023), Night Residuals (curated by T. Melis Golar, Bilsart, Istanbul, 2022). Diary of Defeats (Zilberman İstanbul, 2018). Selected group exhibitions include Rising waters, radiating lights (Zilberman Istanbul, 2024), Karşı Pencere (curated by Melike Bayık, KOLİ Art Space, Istanbul, 2021), and Unlock (Zilberman Istanbul, 2020). His works have also been part of residencies and international group shows such as Our Nature (TAPA Artist Residency Exhibition, Istanbul, 2020), The Spirit of the Poet (Center for Persecuted Arts, Solingen, 2019), and House of Wisdom (Collective Çukurcuma, Bonington Gallery, Nottingham, 2018).
