Mustafa Pilevneli

Born in Istanbul in 1940, he graduated from the Building Vocational High School in 1956. In 1961, he studied in the Department of Decorative Painting at the Istanbul State School of Applied Fine Arts (now Marmara University). In 1963, awarded a Federal German (DAAD) art scholarship, he conducted research on mural painting and techniques in the architecture studio at the Stuttgart Academy. In 1960, he joined the academic staff of the Istanbul State School of Applied Fine Arts. He completed his Proficiency in Art degree at the Marmara University Faculty of Fine Arts. In 1965, he worked as a lecturer at Marmara University Atatürk Faculty of Education. In 1985, he became a professor at the Marmara University Faculty of Fine Arts and assumed the position of Chair of the Department of Painting in the same year. Between 1985 and 1996, he produced original printmaking works at Çamlıca Art House. Having been invited to the Salzburg Summer Academy in 1970, he conducted research on printmaking techniques there, and subsequently carried out original printmaking works at the Istanbul Museum of Graphic Arts in 2004, 2009, and 2015. With works exhibited across Germany, Japan, the Netherlands, Belgium, and the United States, as well as in the Oslo Biennial, Pilevneli continues his life and artistic practice in Istanbul.