ALİME YALÇIN MİTAP

PAINTER & WRITER


Born in Salihli, Manisa, Turkey, Alime Mitap graduated from Ankara University, Faculty of Political Science, Politics and Administration Department. She studied painting at the workshops of Kadir Ata and Fahir Aksoy, in Izmir.

She staged her first exhibition in 1988, in Istanbul. The paintings of that exhibition were published as a catalogue under the name of “From the Shadows of September” by Belge Publishing House. The paintings that were impressions of the artist and what she witnessed directly and experienced personally during the time of being a political detainee of September 12th period were exhibited domestically and internationally in different cities. Mitap attended “Mixed Exhibition of Artists from Turkey” in November, 1990 in Strasbourg after having been invited. Her paintings are included in some private collections and various national and foreign institutions.
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