Taipei Dangdai Art & Ideas 2025

Istanbul, 29.04.2025 — Dirimart is pleased to announce its participation in the 2025 edition of Taipei Dangdai with Realms in Disguise. The selection brings together eleven artists whose works subvert expectations through perception, form, and material shifts. Located at A03, the gallery’s booth reflects on illusion, play, and transformation through diverse visual strategies and conceptual gestures.

Realms in Disguise spans painting, photography, drawing, sculpture, and installation. It avoids anchoring the viewer, creating moments of ambiguity that invite new readings and disrupt formal boundaries. At the core of the selection are artists who reinvent the medium and method through deceptive or unexpected techniques.

Peter Zimmermann’s painting, which appears digitally rendered, is meticulously executed by hand. Summer Wheat’s heavily textured surface resembles woven fabric yet stems from a singular, tactile process that defies categorisation. Traditional weaving techniques inspire Jennifer İpekel's textile-based work. As an extension of her practice that sees art-making as a way of living, the piece draws on her fluid, iconographically rich visual language. Works by Seçkin Pirim and Güçlü Öztekin expand the selection’s exploration of material and form. Pirim introduces controlled disruptions to symmetrical structures, creating tension between precision and distortion. Güçlü Öztekin reveals a new figure-based work explicitly developed for Taipei Dangdai—an ambiguous winged presence that blurs graphic spontaneity. Ayşe Erkmen revisits an early sculptural method using plexiglas, where the outcome remains unresolved until after the exhibition. İnci Eviner’s figural compositions trace instinctive gestures and internal states, examining how movement, fear, and desire inhabit the body. Çağla Ulusoy’s painting unfolds emotional terrain through abstract structures that evoke the psyche. Gabriela Těthalová shifts the focus to an aesthetic of disorder, where pictorial control gives way to visual volatility. Çiğdem Aky, in contrast, constructs measured spatial arrangements in colour and rhythm that subtly displace perception. Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s previously unseen photography reveals quiet surprises in the everyday. His imagery distils the cinematic from the real and transforms ordinary encounters into painterly tableaux captured by chance.

Realms in Disguise creates a space where recognition slips and form unravels—where what seems familiar becomes unfamiliar again. The selection reframes the narrative, material, and process, inviting viewers to pause, reconsider, and see anew. It will be on view at Dirimart’s Booth A03 during Taipei Dangdai from 9 to 11 May 2025.

Stant: A03