Muge Yilmaz

Lily of the Mountains is currently under the Androgynous Waterfall

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She is a visual artist and researcher. Her practice is influenced by water, feminist science fiction
and soil to build potential future narratives. Working across installation, performance, and photography,
she develops environments that explore the connections between belief, protection, survival and collective imaginaries.

Her work has been presented in The Milk of Dreams, Venice Biennale (2022);
The Seventh Continent, Istanbul Bienniale (2019); and Why Not Ask Again?, Shanghai Bienniale (2016).
In the Netherlands, her work was shown in Tenminste Houdbaar Tot at Museum Arnhem (2022).

Recent solos are Anatolian Goddess(es) (2025) at Working Title Gallery and Posterity Hill (2022)
at Wilfried Lentz Gallery.
Her work can be found in Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Museum Arnhem, UMC Amsterdam, Abn Amro Bank and Rabobank collections.

Between 2013 and 2014, she was a resident at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten and
a fellow researcher at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in 2022/23.
She remains a community member of the ecofeminist collective 4Siblings and continues
the science fiction literature platform @feministcifi in 2020.
Born in Istanbul in 1985, her studio is currently based in Amsterdam.

♲ muge at femscifi dot org

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PRELUDE

☽ @mugeyilma ☾ @feministscifi ♁ @four.siblings.collective

♲ Working Title Gallery

2026

It is called a Weeping Willow, not because the willow weeps, it's for you to weep under its dome.

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☽ Creation Myths and Other Beginnings, 4 September - 29 November 2026, curated by Laurie Cluitmas

You Shall Respect Their Altars, Protect Their Pillars, And You Shall Never Cut Down Any Asherah Poles
image by Kyle Tryhorn

You shall have Faith & Focus

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☽ By A Woman, 26 September - 20 December 2026, curated by Marjolein van der Loo

Three Women: Enheduanna
image by Nick Bookelaar

Three Women: Enheduanna (detail) - image by Nick Bookelaar

Three Women: Hypatia
image by Nick Bookelaar

Three Women: Umay
image by Nick Bookelaar

I AM THE MOUNTAIN

Mother, Mountain, Monster is on view at Sloterplas, Buurtwerkplaats Noorderhof

3D printed and hand worked aluminium, various plants. Realized with the support of Mondrian

Fonds, Het Cultuurfonds and Amsterdam Fonds voor de Kunst

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THE MILK OF DREAMS, 59th VENICE BIENNALE, 2022

► The Milk of Dreams, 59th Venice Biennale