"I am a storyteller in Neverland.
As time passes, I collect. Notes take the form of words and sketches in my notebooks, as well as
objects gathered while moving through landscapes. These fragments – observed, carried,
remembered- become the raw material of my practice.
The works emerge from accumulation and reflection. Looking back at them is an act of remembering:
I come to understand both my feelings thoughts and the specific moment in which each work was
formed. At the same time, the process is forward - looking- an attempt to sense what has not yet
arrived.
My practice exist across multiple temporalities. Past, present, and future overlap and inform one
another. Personal memory intersects with collective experience; intimate narratives coexist with
imagined horizons.
From grandma to bunkers to space,
I move through layered stories – not his-story, but our-story.
A place suspended somewhere between reality and Neverland...”
Şiir Özbilge, January 2026
Şiir Özbilge is a contemporary Turkish artist, studied history at Boğaziçi University. In the 90's she lived and worked in Vienna, Madrid and California. Moved back to Istanbul, 2002-2017.
Some of her paintings are animated by Sine Özbilge & İmge Özbilge and belong to private art collectors.
EXHIBITIONS
2018 Studio STAND UP – Cagliari Italy "Storia Di Istanbul" Solo Exhibition
2017 Pedrami Gallery – Antwerpen Belgium "Order Border Disorder" by
Imge Özbilge and
Şiir Özbilge
2017 Empire Project- Poligon Gallery Istanbul Turkey "Conglomerate" Solo Exhibition
2016 Art Sümer - "Indie-Line" group show.
2014 Novacancy – Karaköy - Solo Exhibition "Kaostantin-Memory"
2014 Kare Sanat. "Müphem” Group Exhibition
2013 Hayaka Arti - "Different 4” Catharsis.
2013 Gallery G-Art – Solo Exhibition Kaostantin - Inside Out (Hafriyat)
2013 KargART - "ben ölümü eskittim, geliyorum." Group Exhibition
2012 Gallery G-Art – Solo Exhibition Kaostantin-ist
2005 Istanbul - American Cultural Association Art Gallery Solo Exhibition.
2002 Vienna – Interkulttheater Solo Exhibition "Metaphern mit Haltung".
1999 Vienna – Institute of Sciences & Arts Feminist Theory & Women Studies Center Opening Exhibition by Women Artists.
CHILDREN & ART
2012 2. Istanbul Children and Youth Art Biennial, Artist Participation - Parçalarla oynuyorum.
2010 1. Istanbul Children and Youth Art Biennial, Artist Participation.
2009 - 2011 BABYLON - Alaçatı – Aya Yorgi Children Art Platform Coordinator.
2009 - 2011 44A Art Gallery and Hayaka Artı Art Platform Child Traces – Encounters with Artists ;
2009 - 2010 SANTRAL İSTANBUL Children Art Workshops.
2008 - 2010 Istanbul – UNEP BAYER Children art workshops – Project Coordinator.
2007 - 2009 Istanbul - Eti Kids' Ship Education Project Painting & Art Workshops with Children – Project Coordinator.
2007 Istanbul - Cezayir Street Fair Painting & Drawing Workshops with Children.
2005 - 2006 Istanbul - La Fontaine Pre-School Education Painting & Drawing Workshops with Children.
2003 - 2004 Istanbul – Cey Fine Arts Gallery Painting & Drawing Workshops with Children.1996 - 1998 Vienna – Margareten Youth Center Painting & Drawing Workshop with Children.
1994 - 1995 Vienna Fest - Children Theather Costume, Character and Stage Decoration Workshops with Children.
"Creation, to me, is to try to orchestrate the universe to understand what surrounds us. Even if, to accomplish that, we use all sorts of stratagems which in the end prove completely incapable of staving off chaos."
Peter Greenaway
"... It is in vain that we say what we see, because what we see never resides in what we say."
Michel Foucault
"... One could think of the fragment as the achievement of an aesthetics of freedom..."
Adorno
"The primitive begins alone; he inherits no practice. Because of this the term primitive may appear at first to be justified. He does not use the pictorial grammar of the tradition –hence he is ungrammatical. He has not learnt the technical skills which have evolved with the conventions –hence he is clumsy. When he discovers on his own a solution to a pictorial problem, he often uses it many times –hence he is naive. But then one has to ask: why does he refuse the tradition? And the answer is only partly that he was born far away from that tradition. The effort necessary to begin painting or sculpting, in the social context in which he finds himself, is so great that it could well include visiting the museums.
But it never does, at least at the beginning. Why? Because he knows already that his own lived experience which is forcing him to make art has no place in that tradition. How does he know this without having visited the museums? He knows it because his whole experience is one of being excluded from the exercise of power in his society, and he realizes from the compulsion he now feels, that art too has a kind of power.
The will of primitives derives from faith in their own experience and a profound skepticism about society as they have found it... "
John Berger