{"id":28390,"date":"2026-02-10T07:03:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T07:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hangar.com.pt\/?p=28390"},"modified":"2026-05-23T12:16:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T11:16:23","slug":"defne-cemal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hangar.com.pt\/en\/defne-cemal\/","title":{"rendered":"Defne Cemal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column icons_position=&#8221;left&#8221;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]Defne Cemal (b. 1997, \u0130stanbul) is an artist based in \u0130stanbul, Turkey. She received her BFA in Studio Art from New York University in 2019. Her work explores materiality and perception, using painting as a site to examine light, visibility, and meaning within the pictorial plane. She held her first solo exhibition in 2024, Humid Blue, at OG Gallery in \u0130stanbul. Selected group exhibitions include Blind Quest (2024, Ballein, Paris) and Still Together (2023, with Zach Hodges, Sonne und Solche, D\u00fcsseldorf). Alongside her practice she has been co-running the \u0130stanbul-based artist-run space Kiral\u0131k Depo since 2021.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column icons_position=&#8221;left&#8221;][vc_masonry_media_grid css=&#8221;&#8221; grid_id=&#8221;vc_gid:1770706459257-82cfc67f-4aee-0&#8243; include=&#8221;28380,28382,28384&#8243;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":28383,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[168],"tags":[275,286],"class_list":["post-28390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-portfolios","tag-2026-en","tag-previous"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>HANGAR - Centro de Investiga\u00e7\u00e3o Art\u00edstica - Defne Cemal<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Exposi\u00e7\u00f5es, Workshops, Ateliers. Resid\u00eancias para artistas e alojamento criativo. Rua Damasceno Monteiro, 12 Lisboa, Portugal Defne Cemal - HANGAR\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/hangar.com.pt\/en\/defne-cemal\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"HANGAR - Centro de Investiga\u00e7\u00e3o Art\u00edstica - Defne Cemal\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Exposi\u00e7\u00f5es, Workshops, Ateliers. Resid\u00eancias para artistas e alojamento criativo. Rua Damasceno Monteiro, 12 Lisboa, Portugal Defne Cemal - HANGAR\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/hangar.com.pt\/en\/defne-cemal\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"HANGAR\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2026-02-10T07:03:14+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-05-23T11:16:23+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/hangar.com.pt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Defne-Cemal-4.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"992\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"792\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Icaro\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Icaro\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/hangar.com.pt\/en\/defne-cemal\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/hangar.com.pt\/en\/defne-cemal\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Icaro\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/hangar.com.pt\/#\/schema\/person\/6154af32c52a58951b46df6288d9ce8d\"},\"headline\":\"Defne Cemal\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-02-10T07:03:14+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-05-23T11:16:23+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/hangar.com.pt\/en\/defne-cemal\/\"},\"wordCount\":137,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/hangar.com.pt\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/hangar.com.pt\/en\/defne-cemal\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/hangar.com.pt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Defne-Cemal-4.png\",\"keywords\":[\"2026\",\"Previous\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Portfolios\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/hangar.com.pt\/en\/defne-cemal\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/hangar.com.pt\/en\/defne-cemal\/\",\"name\":\"HANGAR - Centro de Investiga\u00e7\u00e3o Art\u00edstica - Defne Cemal\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/hangar.com.pt\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/hangar.com.pt\/en\/defne-cemal\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/hangar.com.pt\/en\/defne-cemal\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/hangar.com.pt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Defne-Cemal-4.png\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-02-10T07:03:14+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-05-23T11:16:23+00:00\",\"description\":\"Exposi\u00e7\u00f5es, Workshops, Ateliers. Resid\u00eancias para artistas e alojamento criativo. Rua Damasceno Monteiro, 12 Lisboa, Portugal Defne Cemal - HANGAR\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/hangar.com.pt\/en\/defne-cemal\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/hangar.com.pt\/en\/defne-cemal\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/hangar.com.pt\/en\/defne-cemal\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/hangar.com.pt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Defne-Cemal-4.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/hangar.com.pt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Defne-Cemal-4.png\",\"width\":992,\"height\":792},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/hangar.com.pt\/en\/defne-cemal\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"In\u00edcio\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/hangar.com.pt\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Defne Cemal\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/hangar.com.pt\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/hangar.com.pt\/\",\"name\":\"HANGAR\",\"description\":\"Centro de Investiga\u00e7\u00e3o Art\u00edstica\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/hangar.com.pt\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/hangar.com.pt\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/hangar.com.pt\/#organization\",\"name\":\"HANGAR\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/hangar.com.pt\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/hangar.com.pt\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/hangar.com.pt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Hangar-Logo-02_SMALL_Mail.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/hangar.com.pt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Hangar-Logo-02_SMALL_Mail.jpg\",\"width\":300,\"height\":164,\"caption\":\"HANGAR\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/hangar.com.pt\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"}},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/hangar.com.pt\/#\/schema\/person\/6154af32c52a58951b46df6288d9ce8d\",\"name\":\"Icaro\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/hangar.com.pt\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/83b61551b979abb41dc60790214104668eaa89093170340334cdb92985422dab?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/83b61551b979abb41dc60790214104668eaa89093170340334cdb92985422dab?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Icaro\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/hangar.com.pt\/en\/author\/icaro\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"HANGAR - Centro de Investiga\u00e7\u00e3o Art\u00edstica - Defne Cemal","description":"Exposi\u00e7\u00f5es, Workshops, Ateliers. Resid\u00eancias para artistas e alojamento criativo. Rua Damasceno Monteiro, 12 Lisboa, Portugal Defne Cemal - HANGAR","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/hangar.com.pt\/en\/defne-cemal\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"HANGAR - Centro de Investiga\u00e7\u00e3o Art\u00edstica - Defne Cemal","og_description":"Exposi\u00e7\u00f5es, Workshops, Ateliers. Resid\u00eancias para artistas e alojamento criativo. Rua Damasceno Monteiro, 12 Lisboa, Portugal Defne Cemal - HANGAR","og_url":"https:\/\/hangar.com.pt\/en\/defne-cemal\/","og_site_name":"HANGAR","article_published_time":"2026-02-10T07:03:14+00:00","article_modified_time":"2026-05-23T11:16:23+00:00","og_image":[{"width":992,"height":792,"url":"https:\/\/hangar.com.pt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Defne-Cemal-4.png","type":"image\/png"}],"author":"Icaro","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Icaro","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/hangar.com.pt\/en\/defne-cemal\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/hangar.com.pt\/en\/defne-cemal\/"},"author":{"name":"Icaro","@id":"https:\/\/hangar.com.pt\/#\/schema\/person\/6154af32c52a58951b46df6288d9ce8d"},"headline":"Defne Cemal","datePublished":"2026-02-10T07:03:14+00:00","dateModified":"2026-05-23T11:16:23+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/hangar.com.pt\/en\/defne-cemal\/"},"wordCount":137,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/hangar.com.pt\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/hangar.com.pt\/en\/defne-cemal\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/hangar.com.pt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Defne-Cemal-4.png","keywords":["2026","Previous"],"articleSection":["Portfolios"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/hangar.com.pt\/en\/defne-cemal\/","url":"https:\/\/hangar.com.pt\/en\/defne-cemal\/","name":"HANGAR - Centro de Investiga\u00e7\u00e3o Art\u00edstica - Defne Cemal","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/hangar.com.pt\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/hangar.com.pt\/en\/defne-cemal\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/hangar.com.pt\/en\/defne-cemal\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/hangar.com.pt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Defne-Cemal-4.png","datePublished":"2026-02-10T07:03:14+00:00","dateModified":"2026-05-23T11:16:23+00:00","description":"Exposi\u00e7\u00f5es, Workshops, Ateliers. Resid\u00eancias para artistas e alojamento criativo. Rua Damasceno Monteiro, 12 Lisboa, Portugal Defne Cemal - HANGAR","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/hangar.com.pt\/en\/defne-cemal\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/hangar.com.pt\/en\/defne-cemal\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/hangar.com.pt\/en\/defne-cemal\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/hangar.com.pt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Defne-Cemal-4.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/hangar.com.pt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Defne-Cemal-4.png","width":992,"height":792},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/hangar.com.pt\/en\/defne-cemal\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"In\u00edcio","item":"https:\/\/hangar.com.pt\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Defne Cemal"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/hangar.com.pt\/#website","url":"https:\/\/hangar.com.pt\/","name":"HANGAR","description":"Centro de Investiga\u00e7\u00e3o Art\u00edstica","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/hangar.com.pt\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/hangar.com.pt\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/hangar.com.pt\/#organization","name":"HANGAR","url":"https:\/\/hangar.com.pt\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/hangar.com.pt\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/hangar.com.pt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Hangar-Logo-02_SMALL_Mail.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/hangar.com.pt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Hangar-Logo-02_SMALL_Mail.jpg","width":300,"height":164,"caption":"HANGAR"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/hangar.com.pt\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"}},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/hangar.com.pt\/#\/schema\/person\/6154af32c52a58951b46df6288d9ce8d","name":"Icaro","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/hangar.com.pt\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/83b61551b979abb41dc60790214104668eaa89093170340334cdb92985422dab?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/83b61551b979abb41dc60790214104668eaa89093170340334cdb92985422dab?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Icaro"},"url":"https:\/\/hangar.com.pt\/en\/author\/icaro\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hangar.com.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hangar.com.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hangar.com.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hangar.com.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hangar.com.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28390"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hangar.com.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28393,"href":"https:\/\/hangar.com.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28390\/revisions\/28393"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hangar.com.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hangar.com.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hangar.com.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hangar.com.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}