Mediha Didem Türemen

Mediha Didem Türemen is a contemporary artist from Aydın, born on June 10, 1982. He works actively in the fields of art direction, cinema production design, acting, engraving and photography. In 2020, he served as executive producer in Nuri Bilge Ceylan's movie "Kuru Otlar Üste". In 2015, he was nominated for the Golden Orange for Best Art Director and received invitations from the Rome Triennial in the field of photography and from many biennials and museums in the field of engraving.

He won the Lorenzo il Magnificio award in the category of works on paper, and a woodblock print is in the permanent collection of the Albertina Museum.

He started his education life as an undergraduate at Istanbul University, Faculty of Political Sciences, Department of International Relations, and during this period, he joined the theater group and studied acting. In addition to master names such as Rutkay Aziz, Altan Erkekli, Ferhan Şensoy and Sumru Yavrucuk, she also gained stage experience in institutions such as Gönül Ülkü & Gazanfer Özcan Theater and Nazım Hikmet Foundation.

He continued his photography education at Istanbul Photography and Cinema Amateurs Association and his postgraduate studies in cinema and design at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University.

Türemen, who has an active profile in the international arena, received training from Catalan director Calixto Bieito at the Venice International Theater Festival in 2011 and performed at the festival. In the same year, he took part in the Sarajevo Talent Campus workshops of the Sarajevo Film Festival, and was among the actors selected for Spacey's workshop in the auditions organized by the Kevin Spacey Foundation in Istanbul.

In 2015 and 2016, he was accepted to the Salzburg Summer Academy of Fine Arts and continued his engraving studies in the workshops of Elisabeth Schmirl and Lukas Pusch.

Türemen, who started his cinema career as the production designer of Selim Evci's movie "Iki Lines", also managed international festival relations. She played the leading character Eleni in the 2012 movie "Winds" and also served as the art director in the movie. In 2015, he worked as an art director and producer for Selim Evci's film "Saklı", which won the Golden Orange for Best Director at the 52nd Antalya International Film Festival, while Türemen was nominated for Best Art Director.

Productions in which he took part

• Winds (2013) — Eleni

Production and imprint information was taken from TMDB.