:mentalKLINIK

PUFF OUT is a Bitter Medicine to museums under lockdown, initiated by the artist duo :mentalKLINIK and curated by Carl De Smet for the Museum of Contemporary Art of Belgrade as the first host. As we are now more online than ever, :mentalKLINIK offers us a bitter pill to fill the abysmal void of the emptied-out, shuttered museums. PUFF OUT installation is made to be physically set in the premises of the museum, but extended onto digital platforms. View video.

The artist duo Yasemin Baydar and Birol Demir, who are behind :mentalKLINIK, have once again left their mark with three simultaneous exhibitions in Europe. The pair currently live and work in Brussels. Shows in Brussels, Vienna and Belgrade exhibit their new and previous artworks, which focus on different themes around technology, social media, internet, codes, attention, economy, psychology and how perceptions of happiness change in the world.

Once again, the duo tries to find a new approach to a postmodern question. The works in the exhibition reflect on the essence of truth, meanwhile making the viewer contemplate whether they are true or not. This time, mentalKLINIK plays with the ambiguity of truth and how this changes reality and surroundings.

Brussels-based Turkish duo :mentalKLINIK is asking an unfortunately timely question: “How can art lie when the reality is not true enough?” In Truish, their second solo show at the Gallery Isabelle van den Eynde in Dubai, they’re exploring the (Colbert-favourite) definition of truthiness.

Turkish artistic duo :mentalKLINIK, which has come to the fore with large-scale installations in exhibitions around the world, questions the notion of satisfaction in their exhibition.

How can art lie when the reality is not true enough? :mentalKLINIK’s solo exhibition in Dubai 'Truish' not only presents an ambiguous scenario, but also asks a pertinent question: What is the truth? How does one gauge the truthiness of something? What you see in this exhibition is perhaps true – or maybe not, and this ambiguity becomes the fuel to question our reality and surroundings.

Turkish duo :mentalKLINIK often lauded for the complexity of their oeuvre, deftly shifting between emotional and robotic attitudes, fusing materiality and concepts vividly, each method, each artist, each exchange, progressively enhancing the other.

:mentalKLINIK plays with colorful reflective surfaces, billboard-type signs and rhetorical operations to explore new languages and alternative textures of pleasure. By drawing on these elements as the subject and medium of their work, the duo appears to collaborate with the capitalist project they seek to challenge.

Kazakhstan's first international art exhibition in its recently renamed capital, Nur-Sultan, reflects a desire for culture in a rapidly changing city. Racing the Galaxy, curated by the French curator Jérôme Sans and Kazakh curator Dina Baitassova, brings together 20 international and Kazakh artists, including Michelangelo Pistoletto, Ange Leccia, Mircea Cantor, Almagul Menlibayeva, Askhat Akhmediyarov or :mentalKLINIK.

‘Thank You For Your Co-operation’ is the show presented by :mentalKLINIK in Dubai. From digital age poetry to mobile notification sounds, the Turkish artist duo explore the social media generation. 

The Spanish TV show 'Metrópolis' offers a tour of the exhibition 'Entre nosotros', which brings together video works by contemporary artists from North Africa and the Middle East, whose practices are part of a globalized world. The exhibition, produced by eTopia_Centro de Arte y Tecnología de Zaragoza, explores the encounters and disagreements between western culture and eastern culture.