Belmin Pilevneli

Belmin Pilevneli is a visual artist and graphic designer, born in 1990, Istanbul. She received her BA in Visual Arts and Visual Communication Design from Sabancı University and MA in Illustration and Visual Media from UAL, London College of Communication. At the moment she is working as a graphic designer in London, at MCCGLC, while working as an independent visual artist too.

Before moving to London from Turkey to earn her master's degree, she worked as a graphic designer/illustrator at Trendyol, in Istanbul. After she had moved to London, she focused on her career path progressing in Visual Arts, but always continued her graphic design works, as well.

She took place in different fairs and exhibitions such as ‘London Illustration Fair, 2016’, ‘First Thursdays - UAL Takeover, 2017 ’, ‘Tribe 17 - International Art Fest’. She displayed her works in the exhibition ‘Lost and Found’ with a collaboration of UCLH (University College London Hospital) and House of Illustration. Her first solo exhibition titled ‘Are You In Love?’ took place in Galeri Miz in Istanbul, 2018, while she had an other solo exhibition titled ‘Love Me, Love Me’ at Shipton Street Gallery in London. Her works were exhibited in group exhibitions and fairs both in London, Istanbul and Ankara: Contemporary Istanbul, Pilevneli Gallery, Art Ankrara Contemporary Art Fair (represented by Galeri FE ), Step Istanbul, Işık Okulları (with PG Art Gallery) Soho House Istanbul.

With her brand Belmin Pilevneli Studio, which she founded recently she started to print her art on silk. The brand’s aim is to make her art wearable and more approachable to people.

Most of her art works walk hand-in-hand with text and poetry, predominantly written by herself in order to reflect intimacy, emotions, love, purity, nature and cultural variety. She uses various techniques like embossment, acrylic, ink, digital collage. She visualizes her themes with with abstracted forms.