2015 On Paper Group Exhibition – Gaia Gallery
2015 Contemporary Istanbul Art Fair
2016 Unexpected Lands – Artist2016 TÜYAP
2017 Tactical Stance Group Exhibition – Cer Modern
2017 Utopia – Artist2017 TÜYAP
2019 Contemporary Istanbul Art Fair – Art Factory
2019 If You Don’t Mind Group Exhibition – Art Factory
2020 The Heirs Group Exhibition – Hinterland Gallery, Vienna
2020 So Near Yet So Far – Villa Waldberta, Munich
2020 The Distribution of Water – Karşı Sanat Çalışmaları Group Exhibition
2020 Never Look Away – Karşı Sanat Çalışmaları Group Exhibition
2020 MamutArt Project
2021 Contemporary Istanbul – Mastery Cycle with Seçkin Pirim, Joint Project – BROTHERS1801
2021 One Akarerler
2021 The Immunity – Karşı Sanat Çalışmaları, Galerie der Künstler, Munich
2023 Ghosts of Tomorrow Group Exhibition – Barın Han
2023 Nord Art – “Focus Country” Turkey Pavilion
2023 Artİstanbul Feshane – Starting from the Middle, Group Exhibition
BIOGRAPHY
EXHIBITION
YAĞMUR ÇALIŞ (1991, Bursa)
Yağmur Çalış is a contemporary sculptor whose practice explores the relationship between humans and nature through defense mechanisms, transformation, and conceptual dualities. Her work is informed by the idea that the body is not merely a visible form, but a site that carries, accumulates, and transforms.
She began her art education at Avni Akyol Anatolian Fine Arts High School in Istanbul and was admitted with first rank to the Sculpture Department of Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, where she received training in wood sculpture. Moving beyond the boundaries of classical carving, she integrates the tradition of basket-making passed down through generations in her family into her own construction-based sculptural language. This approach forms both a structural and conceptual foundation for her practice.
Working across wood, paper, and various materials, Çalış investigates the balance between fragility and resistance inherent in each medium. Paper, in particular, emerges in her work not merely as a surface, but as a sculptural construction element that embodies memory, transience, and vulnerability.
In her sculptures, natural defense strategies—such as shell formation, spines, and withdrawal—are reconfigured in reference to the human body and psyche. Through these forms, her work reveals structures that are simultaneously protective and restrictive, proposing that strength and fragility can coexist within the same body.
Yağmur Çalış continues her practice at her studio in İznik, Bursa.
