Belmin Pilevneli, born in 1990 and originally from Istanbul, has been residing in London since 2015. After completing her degree in Visual Communication Design at Sabancı University, she pursued a Master’s program at the University of Arts London, London College of Communication, graduating in 2016. Since then, Pilevneli has participated in numerous international exhibitions, biennials, and fairs. 

She has held solo exhibitions in Turkey at Galeri Miz, Galeri Fe, Casa 22 x Artate Art, and in the United Kingdom at Shipton Street Gallery. Notable fairs featuring her works include the London Art Fair 2024, Art On Paper New York 2023, Contemporary Istanbul, the 10th Dali International Photography Exhibition in Dali, China, the 11th International Printmaking Biennial of Douro 2023, the Paper Ink Print Festival London 2023, the Hybrid Art Fair Madrid 2023, Step Istanbul, and the Art Ankara International Contemporary Art Fair 2019. In 2024, she began offering regular painting and creativity classes at her studio in London.

Pilevneli’s artwork addresses themes such as relationships, belonging, fragmentation, reconstruction, healing, life cycles, and the nature-human relationship. She approaches global events and personal psychological complexities, dilemmas, and intense emotions like love with a gentle and pure perspective. She aims to present the chaos we experience as opportunities for re-establishing order. Her works emphasize a sense of purification, tranquility, and peace. Drawing inspiration from nature, she often incorporates organic, amorphous, and fluid forms in cyclical compositions. These cycles symbolize the inherent order in life, akin to cellular transformations, the blooming of buds, the water cycle, the migration of birds, and the orbits of planets.

Pilevneli’s background in illustration and graphic design is evident in her artworks, where the influence of graphic design is apparent. She frequently highlights paper, symbolizing purity, and employs the embossing technique. Over these embossed surfaces, she creates artworks using a combination of ink, acrylic, charcoal, and colored pencil.