Baha Görkem Yalım

1646 Experimental Art Space | The Hague, Netherlands

SAHA supports Baha Görkem Yalım's solo exhibition Mulch Sleep at 1646 Experimental Art Space in Hague between 10 November – 7 January 2024.

Baha Görkem Yalım explores the exhibition as a form of writing, using the exhibition as a writing instrument without allowing language. In sleep they can escape, fly - not smoothly but a laborious flight, hence the sticky heaviness indicated by mulch in the title - in sleep we can resist. Yalım considers Mulch Sleep as an exhibition fallen asleep, marked allegorically by the decision to use only natural light from the windows and night lamps in various versions disguised as sculptures. Artist desires for the audience to feel like there is someone -or something- sleeping in the same room as they are.

Baha Görkem Yalım (1987, İzmir) is a Dutch/Turkish artist and educator. Yalım’s practice is multidisciplinary and defined by being purposefully in flux, refusing to crystallise in any one form or medium. They employ video, sculpture, and performance, sometimes in variatiojns and always as folds of the one and same practice. In all its variations, things come together toward durational proposals anda re radically allowed to appear as themselves. Their position at times also crosses to writer, mediator, and curator and includes the production of texts across poetry, fiction, and academic reflection. Baha Görkem Yalım completed their Bachelor of Fine Arts at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, Honours in Art and Research at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie and the University of Amsterdam, and Masters in Art Praxis at the Dutch Art Institute.Baha Görkem Yalım lives and works in Amsterdam.

About 1646 Experimental Art Space

1646 is an art space in the heart of The Hague. With its experimental, international and free public program, 1646 wants to contribute to an increasingly complex society by challenging existing systems and traditional views, to reflect on the questions that live among us all.