*1990 in Essen, Germany
The word Begreifen serves as a key to his work. It means both to touch and to understand - in a way thinking with the hands.
Since 2019 he has been working as a research assistant in the department of interior design at the Technical University of Ostwestfalen-Lippe in Detmold. He is a member of Deutscher Werkbund and Lippischer Künstlerbund.
Cengiz Hartmann exhibits his work with galleries and at fairs internationally and works directly with private clients on commissions.
»In my practice as an artist, I try to comprehend the uniqueness of the outside - and by that the inside, the essence. A work of art is the outer model of inwardness. I transform matter which is entity. The transformation shows the unspeakable. Gradually I discover the influence of time, weather and natural substances on different materials and integrate them into my own work process.
I create works of art that allow interaction and associations, both is elementary. It is always about relationship.
I am in search of poetry, the essential expression in things. Form and content can not be separated from one another. I trust my intuition, it is condensed experience. Iterative phases of creation and reflection are equivalent.«
Exhibitions / Awards / Lectures
2024 solo exhibtion Communicare, Church Maria im Weinberg, Warburg
2024 Milan Design Week 2024, ALCOVA at Villa Borsani, Milan
2023 exhibtion New Marvel's, The Frozen Fountain, Amsterdam
2023 exhibtion Molière, by Stéphanie Frederickx, Brussels
2023 Dutch Design Week 2023, Piet Hein Eek gallery space, Eindhoven
2023 Lake Como Design Fesival 2023, Villa Salazar, Como
2023 group exhibtion Zwischenzeit, Lippischer Künstlerbund, Eichenmüllerhaus, Lemgo
2023 exhibtion Limitless, DOEN Gallery, Rotterdam
2023 exhibtion Xylos, Prime Matter Gallery, Lisbon
2023 Milan Design Week 2023, ALCOVA, Milan
2023 group exhibtion Minimaal, ICOON Museum, Hoek van Holland
2022 Contemporary Art Ruhr, Zeche Zollverein, Essen
2022 Dutch Design Week 2022, ISOLA, Pennings Foundation, Eindhoven
2022 ARTMUC, Munich
2022 experimental dinner by STEINBEISSER with Jeong Kwan, Amsterdam
2022 exhibition Natur&Mensch with Patrizia Casagranda and Philipp Hiller, Zehntscheune, Stadthagen
2022 Object Rotterdam, HAKA Building, Rotterdam
2022 exhibition Jardin Japonais with Timo Heijnk und Rainer Nummer, HOT studio, Detmold
2022 group exhibtion LeKuff, Lemgo
2021 award Caspar-von-Zumbusch Preis 2020 and solo exhibtion in Herzebrock-Clarholz
2021 group exhibtion Spectrum, Detmold
2020 group exhibtion LeKuff, Lemgo
2020 Dutch Design Week 2020, Piet Hein Eek gallery space, Eindhoven
2019 Dutch Design Week 2019, U_store Betül Canbaz, Eindhoven
2019 lecture Die Frage nach dem Wie, symposium Mensch, Raum und Material, TH-OWL Detmold
2019 lecture Auf dem Weg ins Neue, Werkbundakademie NRW, Wuppertal