Analysis of the notions of identity and selfness in Istanbul Biennial and Manifesta Biennial

Art, throughout history, has been a way of expression, in which people prefer to explain themselves, understand the world, and explain societies to each other. This way of expression, took shape on different notions, concepts, and phenomena, depending on the period. Notions of identity and selfness are the concepts that artists are working on. These notions, socially generate individuals and society, and frame them, also have been tried to interpret by approaching the hands of different disciplines of social sciences. In this work; identity and selfless which are some of the important notions of art, artist, and production of art, have been approached with the help of the fields of sociology, philosophy, and psychology. In art, the dual perspective of identity and selfness, which create each other, has been tried to be traced. Examination, that has been made, is limited to “İstanbul Biennial” and “Manifesta: The European Nomadic Biennial” which emphasizes the concepts of identity and selfness and, on the other hand, it is composed of artworks analysis that is associated with concepts of identity and selfness, while researching for the structure of biennials.