"African Woman" Painting

Exhibitions: 2026 - Solo Exhibition: "Colorful Worlds", Barış Manço Culture and Arts Center, Kadıköy Municipality, Istanbul Collective Shows 2026- Beşiktaş Municipality Kethuda Hamam Art Center, Istanbul 2025 : "Focus 2024" Open Call Winner Exhibition, Decollage Art Space, Istanbul, 2024 : "Side by Side - Pact_Turkey", Arthere Istanbul, 2024 2023 : "Winterglimmer", Goya Art, Tarık Zafer Tunaya Cultural Center, Beyoğlu Municipality, Istanbul 2023 : "For Good Days to Come", Progressive Women Foundation, Turkey, Istanbul 2023 : "Mirror", Signature Art Gallery 2022 : "Pine Tree", Signature Art Gallery 2018 : "Creative", La Visione Art Gallery, 2018, Istanbul 2018 : "October Dreams", Niş Art Gallery, Istanbul 2018 : "My Woman", Niş Art Gallery, Istanbul 2015: Tepe Antik Gallery, Istanbul 2014 : Artist Istanbul Art Fair, Istanbul 1993 : Honorary Prize, Çanakkale (Troia) Municipality 1993 : Culture Week, Çanakkale (Troia) Municipality Mine Dikel was born in 1964 in Istanbul. She attended some Turkish painters' academic painting lessons for long years. In early years of her carreer, her works took place in municipalities and some galleries and she was awarded by Çanakkale Municipality. Her works are part of some municipality and hotels' collections. Mothering an artist and a designer kid, she took time out from the painting career and preferred produce for herself for a decade. In 2015, she made a nice return to art world, taking part in some collective shows in the heart of the city, In her art practice, while she adopts palette of impressionists, she uses an expressionist and cubist manner. She usually focuses on women, culture and city scapes usually from the diverse countries she had ever visited. As a Constantinopolis lover, she enjoys giving a taste of Istanbul, its seagulls and architecture. Also giving an emphasis to women's character and power, by portraying herself also amongst them.