Lara Kamhi

Medya Sanatçısı / Yönetmen / Küratör

Doğum tarihi ve yeri: 1987, İstanbul

1987 İstanbul doğumlu Lara Kamhi, Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris-III Üniversitesi’nde Tiyatro Çalışmaları bölümü ve Paris Amerikan Üniversitesi’nde Fransız Yeni Dalgası üzerine yoğunlaşarak, Film Çalışmaları bölümü’nde eğitim aldı. Ardından İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi Sinema ve Televizyon eğitimini yan dal olarak okuduğu Görsel İletişim Tasarımı ile tamamlayıp yüksek onur derecesi ile mezun oldu. Berklee College of Music’te Caz, The London Music School’da ileri ses mühendisliği ve no.w.here’de analog film konusunda dersler aldı. Yüksek öğrenimini 2013’te Slade School of Fine Art’ta (UCL) dereceyle tamamlayan sanatçı- küratör; mekâna özgü, sarmal ve sinematik yaklaşımlara odaklanan dokuz bölümden oluşan bir sergi serisi gerçekleştirdiği Prizmaspace adlı bağımsız sanat inisiyatifinin de kurucu ortaklığını ve yöneticiliğini üstlendi. 2017’de ilk uzun metrajlı senaryosu Utah ABD’deki Sundance Scriptwriter’s Lab’de ön elemeyi geçti. Aynı yıl film, sanat ve psikoloji dergileri PsikeSinema ve Psikeart’ta yazmaya başladı. Her iki dergiye de yarı zamanlı görsel içerik ve kapak editörü olarak katkıda bulunmaya devam ediyor. Kamhi, ulusal ve uluslararası galerilerde, müzelerde, festivallerde ve kamusal alanlarda çalışmalarını sergiliyor. Kariyeri boyunca çok sayıda deneysel video ve film çalışması gerçekleştiren Kamhi, bir yandan tiyatro, konser ve etkinlikler için görsel, sahne ve ışık tasarımcısı olarak çalışmakta, yoğunluklu olarak da müzik video yönetmenliği yapmaktadır ve bu alandaki çalışmaları ile pek çok uluslararası ödül kazanmıştır.

Seçili Sergiler ve Projeler:

SOLO EXHIBITIONS / SCREENINGS / PROJECTS
2022 Digital Analogues | Akbank Sanat | Istanbul TR
2019 Space Orchestra (for Dyson) | Zorlu Center for Performing Arts | Istanbul TR
2011 Split. Inner/Outer | Atelier Çukurcuma | Istanbul TR

TWO PERSON-EXHIBITIONS
2015
Moving Images II | PRIZMASPACE | Istanbul TR – with Eli Kasavi
2014
Moving Images I | PRIZMASPACE | Istanbul TR – with Eli Kasavi
Merging & Emerging | Gallery Heritage | Geneva CH – with Melda Kosif
2013
Atelier by Absolut | Unter | Istanbul TR – with Erdem Dilbaz (Nerdworking)

GROUP EXHIBITIONS / PROJECTS
2023
One Akaretler | Akaretler No: 37/39 | Istanbul TR
Beyond The City: Cultural Monuments | Dongdaemun Design Plaza | Seoul KR
2022
Echoes of Contemporary Surrealism / Maze of surrealist dreams and games | Institut Français (in collaboration with Maison André Breton) | Alexandria EG
Titled #Post RE:SET@New Future | Vienna AT
RedBull Organics | Nef Bebeköy Former French Orphanage | Istanbul TR
2021
Metaverse Exhibition | Seoul Design Festival | COEX Hall C | Seoul KR
The Lost Storytellers | Amsterdam NL | The Hague NL | Bristol UK | Zürich CH | Istanbul TR
Yours Truly | Space Debris | Padre | Istanbul TR
Wave | East Sea International Art Pre-Biennale | Gangwon KR
Istanbul State of Mind | Eski Likör Fabrikası | Istanbul TR
ART X WU | Bodrum TR
Dalınç | Binbirdirek Sarnıcı | Istanbul TR
Techne | Ahmet Adnan Saygun Sanat Merkezi | Izmir TR
Amber Network Festival | Berlin DE
Ubiquity | Akbank Sanat | Istanbul TR
2020
The Lights Festival | Istanbul TR
Video commission for the COVID-19 lockdown | The NICC | Brussels BE
2019
Untitled | Salon Akaretler | Istanbul TR
Off-Grid | Akaretler Artweek | Istanbul TR
Karma | Adam Art Gallery | Istanbul TR
2018
Interference | The Medina of Tunis TN
Misfest | Zorlu Center | Istanbul TR
Ghosts | Redbull Art Around Arnavutköy | Istanbul TR
Crossed Destinies | Bilsart Gallery | Istanbul TR
Sonar Festival | Zorlu Performance Arts Center | Istanbul TR
New Texture: The 4th International Exhibition on New Media Art | CICA Museum | Gyeonggi KR
2017
The New Normal | Supa | Istanbul TR
The New Normal | The Hangar- Umam & Dawawine | Beirut LB
2016
25I25 | Ekavart Gallery | Istanbul TR
2015
Prizma Open Studio | Prizmaspace | Istanbul TR
Istanbul Light Festival | Zorlu Center | Istanbul TR
Wavelenghts – Europalia Arts Festival | Les Halles | Brussels BE
Light is there where we are not | Cult. Transit Found. | Yekaterinburg RUS
BYOB | Pera Museum | Istanbul TR
Galaxias Maculatus | Museum of Contemporary Art | Valdivia CL
Possibilities and Choices | Mixer Gallery | Istanbul TR
2014
Where am I ? | Kare Art Gallery | Istanbul TR
2013
Parallel Threads | Ekav Art Gallery | Istanbul TR
ArtBelow Regent’s Park | Regent’s Park Tube Station | London UK
Creatives Rising | 26-19 Jackson Ave. Long Island | New York USA
BursaFotoFest | Merinos Congress Culture Center | Bursa TR
The Story of the Creative | Angel Orensanz Foundation | New York USA
Artwork Display | Zorlu Center | Istanbul TR
2012
Beyond the Material World | Bar Lane Studios | York UK
Ten Diez Movement | Magma | Tenerife CI
Untitled | Pilevneli Project | Istanbul TR
And You, What Do You Worship? | Crypt Gallery | London UK
Seeing in The City | Guildhall Art Gallery | London UK
MADE Mobility for Digital Arts in Europe | Istanbul TR
2011
City Lights | DomAquaree | Berlin DE
Affective State | Tophane – i Amire | Istanbul TR
White Box | Taksim Gezi Park | Istanbul TR
Update! | Hayaka Artı Art Center | Istanbul TR
Life is Elsewhere | The Crypt Gallery | London UK
Up and Coming | Artium Modern Gallery | Istanbul TR
2009
Dust / Toz | Freshtival | Kuruçeşme Arena | Istanbul TR

ACADEMIC EXHIBITIONS
2013
Graduate Show | Slade School of Fine Art | London UK
Interspace II | Bezalel Academy of Art | Jerusalem IL
2012
Slade Open Studio II, Slade School of Fine Art, London UK
Interspace I | Bezalel Academy of Art | Jerusalem IL
Inter | Slade School of Fine Art | London UK
Interim Show | Slade Research Center | London UK
Cinema as Object | Slade Research Center | London UK
2011
Slade Open Studio I, Slade School of Fine Art, London UK
Colour | Slade Research Center | London UK
Texture | Slade Research Center | London UK
Body | Slade Research Center | London UK
2010
Slade Summer Show | Slade School of Fine Art | London UK

FILM SCREENINGS
2023
Punto y Raya Festival | Lisbon PT
2022
Cannes Shorts Film Festival | Cannes FR
2021
FilmArte Festival | Madrid ES
2020
Blow-Up International Arthouse Film Festival | Chicago USA
East Europe International Film Festival | Warsaw, PL
Lift-Off Film Festival | Tokyo JP
Atrabilious Amsterdam Experimental Film Festival | Amsterdam NL
2019
Lift-Off Film Festival (Online Selection) | London UK
Istanbul Experimental Film Festival | Salt Beyoğlu | Istanbul TR
Weekend on the Moon | Bologna IT
Indie Memphis Film Festival | Memphis USA
Urban MediaMakers Festival | Atlanta USA
!F X Opening & Closing Events | Istanbul TR
Lift-Off Film Festival (Online Selection) | New York USA

CURATING
2023
Prizma Expanded: Poetics of Perception | Akbank Sanat | Istanbul TR
2016
How East? | Television Space | Witten DE
2015
Prizma Open Studio | Prizmaspace | Istanbul TR
Prizma Screening: Daina O. Pusić | Prizmaspace | Istanbul TR
Prizma Group Show II | Prizmaspace | Istanbul TR
Prizma Screening: Ozan Adam | Prizmaspace | Istanbul TR
Moving Images II | Prizmaspace | Istanbul TR
2014
Prizma Group Show I | Prizmaspace | Istanbul TR
Prizma Screening: Azra Deniz Okyay | Prizmaspace | Istanbul TR
Moving Images I | Prizmaspace | Istanbul TR

ART FAIRS
2015
Contemporary Istanbul (Plugin) | Istanbul TR
The Other Art Fair | The Old Truman Brewery | London UK
2011
The Other Art Fair | Ambika P3 | London UK

VIDEO ESSAYS
2021 Absorbing Ignorance: Experiential Illusions (I-II-III)
2018 Transparency of Being

NARRATIVE SHORTS
2010 Marvel
2009 Black Box
2008 2984

MUSIC VIDEOS
2024 En Gizli | Selin Baycan (Upcoming)
2023 Kaçışın Yok | Selin Baycan
2020 Parmakların | Multitap
2019 Senden Korktum Ben | Tuğçe Şenoğul
2019 Tutsak | Selin Baycan
2017 Crystals of Kissy | Kaosmos
2015 Ölü Bir Adama | Gaye Su Akyol
2013 Stepping out of my Dream | Ali Kuru
2012 Steepless | Portico Quartet

VISUAL DESIGN
2021
Content Photos – Memory & Storage | PsikeArt Magazine | Istanbul TR
2020
Content Photos – Colours | PsikeArt Magazine | Istanbul TR
Content Photos – Isolation | PsikeArt Magazine | Istanbul TR
Content Photos – Skepticism | PsikeArt Magazine | Istanbul TR
2019
Content Photos – Borderline | PsikeArt Magazine | Istanbul TR
2018
Content Photos – Cheating | PsikeArt Magazine | Istanbul TR
Atmosphere and Lighting Design | 55. Ulusal Yarışma | Istanbul TR
Content Photos – Cultural Heritage | PsikeArt Magazine | Istanbul TR
Cover and Content Photos – Empathy | PsikeArt Magazine | Istanbul TR
Cover and Content Photos – Motherhood | PsikeArt Magazine | Istanbul TR
2017
Large scaled Melted Ball Design | Zorlu Center | Istanbul TR
Video Art for Konstrukt | Oryantal Session | Istanbul TR
Atmosphere and Lighting Design | 54. Ulusal Yarışma | Istanbul TR
2016
Large scaled Miradome design | Zorlu Center | Istanbul TR
2015
Prod. Design for Gaye Su Akyol | Ölü Bir Adama video | Istanbul TR
Prod. Design for Gaye Su Akyol | Cehennem Meyhanesi video | Istanbul TR
2014
Site-Specific Installations for House of Nature | Suma Han | Istanbul TR
2013
Stage Design for The Closed Loop | The Courtyard Theatre | London UK
2012
Lighting Design for Babylon | Istanbul TR
Set Design for Portico Quartet | Steepless music video | London UK
Stage and Visual Design for 1984 | Bloomsbury Theatre | London UK
2011
Concert Visuals for Friends of Sophie | Taksim Gezi Park | Istanbul TR

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