| 1955 | Born in Tunceli (eastern Anatolia), the son of Kurdish peasants |
| 1961-1969 | Attendance of elementary and secondary school, Tunceli and Istanbul |
| 1971 | entry to Germany, stay as "guest worker" |
| 1971 | Birth of the son Bahadir |
| 1973 | Birth of the daughter Bahar |
| 1976–1978 | training as a machinist |
| 1979–1984 | Distance Learning of the liberal arts at the Paris Art Academy, Hamburg |
| 1982–1983 | Close contact to Prof. Fred Thieler and Prof. Gerd Jedermann, Berlin |
| 1984 | First solo exhibition in Schweinfurt (documented by Bavarian Television) |
| 1984 | trip to Turkey - arrest and exit ban |
| 1984–1989 | work as a freelance artist Founding member of the Turkish Human Rights Association |
| 1989 | escape from Turkey |
| 1990 | Reception by Willy Brandt to present the activities the Turkish Human Rights Association |
| 1990 | Initiator and founding chairman of the IK (Association of International Visual Artists e.V. Ostwestfalen-Lippe, Bielefeld) |
| 1991–1993 | employment as cultural manager for public relations for the environmental area of the city of Bielefeld |
| 1996 | Death of the son Bahadir |
| seit 1984 | Diverse solo and group exhibitions of painting, photography, sculptures Installations in Germany, Turkey, Luxembourg and Belgium. |
| from 1989 | work as freelance artist, focus on painting. |
| 1989–2002 | Life and work in Bielefeld |
| 2002 | move to Berlin |
| 2008 | birth of daughter Paney Hezra |
| 2011-2014 | engaged as an art lecturer at a German secondary school. |
Currently Ibrahim Coskun works as a freelance artist in Berlin, Istanbul and Bodrum.