TAYYIB SEN
Tayyib Sen was born in 2000 in Duisburg as the son of Turkish immigrants.
Due to his socio-ethno-economic background, he is sensitized to societal issues, which he is contextualizing and reinterpreting in his work.
Since 2023, Tayyib Sen has been studying fine arts at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, initially under the guidance of Gereon Krebber and Udo Dziersk.
Since 2024, he has been a student of the internationally renowned sculptor Alexandra Bircken.
2025 group exhibition, class of students of Alexandra Bircken, Art Academy Düsseldorf
Since 2025 member of artists’ association Malkasten, Düsseldorf, under Christoph Westermeier (1st director) and Tony Cragg (artistic director)
Publications & Press
Mention in: "Where to go at the weekend", Monopol Magazine for Art and life, February 2025
Mention in: "Rundgang 2025 Kunstakademie Düsseldorf", Rheinische Post,February 2025
Mention in: "Half Time Show: The Winter Rundgang at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf", thegenzartcritic, February 2025
On request, we will gladly send you a detailed curriculum vitae and the current exhibition overview by e-mail.
Here is a selection of his work. On request, we will be happy to send you an extended selection of works that may be for sale.
Tayyib Sen’s work explores the tension between memory and the current, focusing on narratives that emerge through materiality.
He is drawn to objects and materials that already carry a history - textiles, zip ties, chains - elements that resonate with associations of the body, sexuality and identity.
By recontextualizing them, he constructs new frameworks that remain
tethered to their origins while opening space for reinterpretation.
Material serves as the foundation of
his practice.
Also a central element in his work is the interplay of pleasure and pain - the way desire and suffering are often intertwined, sometimes indistinguishable.
His material choices reflect these tensions: soft textiles meet rigid structures, fragility meets resilience.
His sculptures and installations invite touch yet resist full accessibility, creating spaces of attraction and
discomfort.
Rather than presenting fixed narratives,
his work remains in constant flux, shifting between past and present, control and chaos, familiarity and
transformation.
Through his sculptural interventions,
he crafts open-ended stories - spaces where materials, histories, and emotions interact in a continuous
process of negotiation.