Dilek Menteş - Turkish Painting Association - UK- Headquartered in London

Who is Dilek Menteş? (1970-Bartın)

She was born in Bartın in 1970. She graduated from Gazi University, Gazi Faculty of Education, Department of Painting Education in 1992. She opened 33 personal exhibitions, one of which was in Germany. She took part in more than 150 mixed exhibitions, art fairs, and biennials in Turkey and abroad (including America, Italy, Austria, Germany, France, Bulgaria, Romania, China, Russia, and Hungary). She has 5 awards from various art competitions. She works with a figurative, expressionist, and abstractionist approach in her paintings.
She has conducted studies in museums in Vienna, Germany, France, Poland, England, Switzerland, Northern Ireland, Spain, Czech Republic, Italy, Greece, Luxembourg, Monaco, and Belgium, and has taken part in various European Union projects.
Dilek Menteş, who continues her work in her studio in Bartın, is a member of UNESCO (AİAP) International Plastic Arts Association (UPSD) and United Painters and Sculptors Association (BRHD), Paper Artists Association (KSD).
Her works are in many national and international official and private collections.

Art Perspective
In my painting I based on global warming and climate change; on the basis of
symbolic meanings; While I am looking for a special and rich form of expression with hidden
written emotions and images in a dream memory that gains an aesthetic or special
metaphysical value that I try to describe with fishes, I question the connection between
humanity’s destruction of the natural world and the disappearance of memory on the basis of
living things in the essence of nature.

Selections from Exhibitions:

2024-“4:17 Installation and Painting Earthquake Commemoration Exhibition”, Başkent University, Ankara
2024-“Çintemani Turkish-Chinese Common Cultural Heritage Exhibition”, Armada, Ankara
2024-“Exhibition of the Century, 100 Artists”, İnönü University, Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture, Malatya
2024-“Juried International 100 Years Reflection Exhibition”, City Museum, Yalova
2024-“Peace” Painting and Poster Exhibition, Bartın University, Faculty of Fine Arts Exhibition Area, Bartın
2023-“Touching Paper II”, University of Music and Fine Arts, Ankara
2023-“BRHD 53rd Grand Exhibition”, Contemporary Arts Center, Ankara
2023-“Sound of Sun” International Participation Exhibition, Design Festa Gallery, Shibuya, Tokyo-Japan.
2023-“100th Anniversary of our Republic, Turkish-Japanese Friendship Plastic Industry Exhibition”, Turkish-Japanese Foundation, Ankara
2023-“100th Anniversary of the Republic and Aşık Veysel Year Memory Exhibition”, Atatürk Congress Center, Sivas
2023-“4th Juried International Fish Themed Exhibition”, Sinop University Fine Arts and Design Exhibition, Sinop
2023- “Miners” “II. City Festival “, Library Foyer Open Space Exhibition, Amasra (Solo Exhibition)
2023- “Vernice Art Fair, EuroExpoArt Contemporary Art Fair, Forli, Italy
2023- 9th ArtAnkara Art Fair “Letters to Kibele” Project Exhibition, Congresium, Ankara
2023- 9th ArtAnkara Art Fair, Ayka Art Gallery, Congresium, Ankara
2022- “Art in Industry” Exhibition, Anadolu OSB- Ankara
2022- “I. Amasra City Festival “Barış” Mixed Painting and Ceramics Exhibition, Museum Foyer Hall, Amasra
2022- “TravelExpo” Fair, ATO Congresium-Ankara (Solo Exhibition)
2021- “IAAF Istanbul Art and Antiques Fair”, NeoArt Gallery, Lütfi Kırdar Congress Center, Istanbul.
2021-“98th Anniversary of our Republic exhibition”, Portart Art Gallery, Ankara.
2021-“Vernice Art Fair, Forli- Italy.
2021-“Feminenartfest”, International Art Festival, Istanbul.
2021-“Sintesi 2021”, Crocetti Museum, Rome.
2020-“Vernice Art Fair, Euro Expo Art, Forli- Italy.
2019- “International Participation Exhibition”- Metropolitan Museum of Art Tokyo, Japan
2019- Mor Art Gallery, Lvzz Hotel, Bodrum (Solo Exhibition)
2019- “The Essence of Things” Mega Art Gallery, Corchiano, Rome-Italy
2019- “EuroExpoArt Contemporary Art Fair”, Forli-Italy
2019- “5th ArtAnkara Contemporary Art Fair”-Ankara
2018- “Özlem”, Art Museum and Gallery, Çorum (Solo Exhibition)
2018- “Truva Exhibition”, Galerim Art Gallery, Armada, Ankara
2018- İstanbulArtShow Contemporary Art Fair, Galeri Abay, Hilton-İstanbul
2018- Arte Fiera Art Fair, NeoArtGallery, Cesena-Italy
2018- 4th ArtAnkara Contemporary Art Fair-Ankara
2017-“A World, Many Stories”, Linda Farrel Gallery- Paris
2017- Nail Çakırhan&Halet Çambel Culture and Art House, Akyaka, Muğla (Solo Exhibition)
2013- Inter Art International Exhibition, National Museum, Alba Iulıa-Romania
2012- “III. Balaton Salon Painting Competition” Exhibition- Hungary
2012- “Feminine Discourses” Tünel Art Gallery- Istanbul (Solo Exhibition)
2011- “Yin-Yang” Contemporary Art and History Museum, Moscow-Russia
2011- “Women in Art Exhibition”, American Museum, Miami, Florida- USA
2011- “Arachne” VII., PrimoPiano Gallery, Lecce-Italy
2010- “Orange Blossom II. International Art Colony Exhibition, CRR, Istanbul
2010 - Marziart Gallery, Hamburg-Germany (Solo Exhibition)
2010- Art District Gallery, Las Vegas-America
2010- WAF Expo Las Vegas, Place Gallery-America
2010- Art 2010, Broadway Gallery, New York-America
2009- “Abstract Paintings, Bahsimi Art House, Salzburg Gallery- Austria
2008 - AKM Art Galleries – Istanbul (Solo Exhibition)
2009- Broadway Gallery, New York-America
2009- Spazio-Tempo "Human Rights" San Lucia-Belvedere Palace- Italy
2009- 53rd Venice Biennale New York Art Pavilion, Venice- Italy
2009- World Art Fair’09, California-America
2009- WAF- Great Hall of Arts, California- USA