Can Demren

Born in Istanbul, Turkey in 1990, Can is a multidisciplinary artist, maker, and teacher. His art practice primarily focuses on contemporary representational painting, lens-based media, drawing, and sound and music.

The central motivation behind his artistic practice is to capture and convey an awareness of the present moment as he experiences it from his perspective of the world. He strives to reflect these confrontations in his work as impartially as possible, his art serving as a reflection of his feeling of responsibility to his homeland Turkey, his current home in the Netherlands, and his personal histories, as well as his encounters with social oddities.

Exhibitions:

• Something Fishy, Literair Café de Graanrepubliek, October 2025 - January 2026

• ‘Remarkable Meetings with Disgusting Men’ , curated by EMIRHAKIN, W139 Amsterdam

• Mondriaan Fonds Prospects 2023, Art Rotterdam , February 2023

• “NEW:NOW, 2nd Edition”, CerModern, Ankara, TUR,  April - May 2025

• DIHAN ‘23 No.1: Wander, Sound Performance, Berger & de Vries, Gronigen, 9 March 2023

• De Nieuwe Oogst, Y2 Gallery, Groningen, October - November 2022

• Onderhuids, Sign, Groningen - May 2018

• “There is a Stone / There is a Dog” :
  - (Un)Formed: Academie Minerva Graduation Show, Suikerfabriek - July 2019

  - Bierumerschool , July - August 2019