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SAMET SERT
Artist / Performer / Spatial Designer
SAMET SERT
Artist / Performer / Spatial Designer
Samet Sert is an artist and performer working across performance, sculpture, video, and spatial practices through a queer sensibility toward systems, prosthetics, movement, and space. Sert completed an MA in Sculpture at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University with the thesis Neither Queer Nor Cyborg: The Body Caught Between Norms. Sert currently works as Art Technical Supervisor at Nilüfer Municipality Theatre in Bursa.
Samet Sert is an artist and performer working across performance, sculpture, video, and spatial practices through a queer sensibility toward systems, prosthetics, movement, and space. Sert completed an MA in Sculpture at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University with the thesis Neither Queer Nor Cyborg: The Body Caught Between Norms. Sert currently works as Art Technical Supervisor at Nilüfer Municipality Theatre in Bursa.
SELECTED WORKS/PRESENTATIONS
2026
2026
Under-the-Table Cleaner
Performance · Tophane-i Amire, Istanbul, Turkey
Under-the-Table Cleaner
Performance · Barın Han Performance Days,
Istanbul, Turkey
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Stage design · Youth Theatre, Nilüfer Municipality Theatre,
Bursa, Turkey
The Empire Builders — Boris Vian
Stage design · Uludağ University Faculty of Medicine Theatre Company,
Bursa, Turkey
Under-the-Table Cleaner
Performance · Tophane-i Amire, Istanbul, Turkey
Under-the-Table Cleaner
Performance · Barın Han Performance Days,
Istanbul, Turkey
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Stage design · Youth Theatre, Nilüfer Municipality Theatre,
Bursa, Turkey
The Empire Builders — Boris Vian
Stage design · Uludağ University Faculty of Medicine Theatre Company,
Bursa, Turkey
2025
2025
Queeek
Site-specific performance · İmalat-Hane Project Space (5541 IMÇ) · Istanbul, Turkey
Smooth Pan Peach
Clown performance · Clown Jam #11, SBCS Studio ·
Istanbul, Turkey
Lüküs Hayat
Stage design · Nilüfer Municipality Theatre ·
Bursa, Turkey
Lord of the Flies
Stage design for Youth Theatre production · Nilüfer Municipality Theatre ·
Bursa, Turkey
Queeek
Site-specific performance · İmalat-Hane Project Space (5541 IMÇ) · Istanbul, Turkey
Smooth Pan Peach
Clown performance · Clown Jam #11, SBCS Studio ·
Istanbul, Turkey
Lüküs Hayat
Stage design · Nilüfer Municipality Theatre ·
Bursa, Turkey
Lord of the Flies
Stage design for Youth Theatre production · Nilüfer Municipality Theatre ·
Bursa, Turkey
2024
2024
ACT – Artistic Freedom and Child & Youth Perspective in Art in Turkey
Video design · Creative Force Programme, Swedish Institute · Istanbul, Turkey
Kaza, Köpek, Kahvaltı ve Yumurta
Sculptural dummies · Nilüfer Municipality Theatre ·
Bursa, Turkey
Airbag Malfunction
VJ live performance · Sónar Screen, Zorlu PSM ·
Istanbul, Turkey
KIRIK
Online video art screening · Istanbul, Turkey
ACT – Artistic Freedom and Child & Youth Perspective in Art in Turkey
Video design · Creative Force Programme, Swedish Institute · Istanbul, Turkey
Kaza, Köpek, Kahvaltı ve Yumurta
Sculptural dummies · Nilüfer Municipality Theatre ·
Bursa, Turkey
Airbag Malfunction
VJ live performance · Sónar Screen, Zorlu PSM ·
Istanbul, Turkey
KIRIK
Online video art screening · Istanbul, Turkey
2023
2023
Chills and Quils
Group exhibition · Performance & audiovisual installation · Büyük Valide Han ·
Istanbul, Turkey
Chills and Quils
Group exhibition · Performance & audiovisual installation · Büyük Valide Han ·
Istanbul, Turkey
2022
2022
Mamut Art Project — 10th Edition
Juried group exhibition · Bomontiada ·
Istanbul, Turkey
Mamut Art Project — 10th Edition
Juried group exhibition · Bomontiada ·
Istanbul, Turkey
2020
2020
Prompt
Performance & installation · Winterwerkschau,
Bauhaus Research School
Weimar, Germany
Prompt
Performance & installation · Winterwerkschau,
Bauhaus Research School
Weimar, Germany
2019
2019
Dimension
Group exhibition · Mannheimer Kunstverein ·
Mannheim, Germany
Source
Leipzig University / Marmara University Faculty of Fine Arts Collaboration · Tina, Alba Curatorial Exhibition ·
Istanbul, Turkey
Local and Global Discourses
International Online Workshop · California College of the Arts / Marmara University Collaboration · Istanbul, Turkey
Dimension
Group exhibition · Mannheimer Kunstverein ·
Mannheim, Germany
Source
Leipzig University / Marmara University Faculty of Fine Arts Collaboration · Tina, Alba Curatorial Exhibition ·
Istanbul, Turkey
Local and Global Discourses
International Online Workshop · California College of the Arts / Marmara University Collaboration · Istanbul, Turkey
2018
2018
Kesişim
Group exhibition · Kadıköy Gençlik Merkezi ·
Istanbul, Turkey
Performance in Public Space
Performance · Studio-X Istanbul / Istanbul Performance Art ·
Istanbul, Turkey
Kesişim
Group exhibition · Kadıköy Gençlik Merkezi ·
Istanbul, Turkey
Performance in Public Space
Performance · Studio-X Istanbul / Istanbul Performance Art ·
Istanbul, Turkey
EDUCATION
2022–2026
MA, Sculpture
Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University · Istanbul, Turkey
Thesis: Neither Queer Nor Cyborg: The Body Caught Between Norms
2019–2020
Fine Arts — Exchange Programme
Bauhaus-Universität Weimar · Weimar, Germany
2017–2021
BA, Sculpture
Marmara University, Faculty of Fine Arts · Istanbul, Turkey
2019–2022
Minor, Film Design
Marmara University, Faculty of Fine Arts · Istanbul, Turkey
2022–2026
MA, Sculpture
Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University · Istanbul, Turkey
Thesis: Neither Queer Nor Cyborg: The Body Caught Between Norms
2019–2020
Fine Arts — Exchange Programme
Bauhaus-Universität Weimar · Weimar, Germany
2017–2021
BA, Sculpture
Marmara University, Faculty of Fine Arts · Istanbul, Turkey
2019–2022
Minor, Film Design
Marmara University, Faculty of Fine Arts · Istanbul, Turkey