In my practice, I focus on the social and personal facets of society in the context of repressed identities and orientalist – occidentalist narratives. I often depict matters with personal poetics and humour, which dedramatizes the issues I tackle and render them more accessible through the genuine dialogue it creates. I see my works as poetic filaments, applied to the gaps in the issues I deal with.
b. 1992 Ankara
2019 – 2021 MFA, Zürcher Hochschule der Künste, Zurich / Switzerland
2016 – 2019 BFA, Umeå Academy of Fine Arts, Umeå / Sweden
2018 – Exchange semester at Marmara University Faculty of Fine Art, Istanbul / Turkey
2018 – Exchange semester at Royal Academy of Art The Hague / Netherlands
2010 – 2012 Painting, Dokuz Eylül University, Izmir / Turkey
Exhibitions
2020 – “Contemporary Poetry” at Al Vista, Zurich / Switzerland
2019 – “Then There Was” at Galleriet, Umeå / Sweden
Selected Group Exhibitions
2022 – “Çark” at Karşı Sanat, İstanbul / Turkey
2021 – There’s Always Tomorrow at Löwenbräukunst, Zurich / Switzerland
2021 – “Part Two” at 5533, Istanbul / Turkey
2020 – “True Grid” at Unanimous Consent, Zurich / Switzerland
2020 – Jungkunst, Winterthur / Switzerland
2020 – Welcome to Me, Bite Online
2019 – Darağaç IV , Izmir/ Turkey
2019 – “Sleeping with Ghosts” at Västerbottens Museum, Umeå / Sweden
2019 – “Curriculum Vitae” at Sub, Çanakkale / Turkey
2019 – “Positive Space” at Operation Room, Istanbul / Turkey
2018 – “Vanishing Mediator” at Müze Evliyagil, Ankara / Turkey
2018 – Darağaç III , Izmir/ Turkey
2018 – “Mia” at Locatie Z, The Hague / Netherlands
2018 – Ground Festival, The Hague / Netherlands
2018 – “If I Stay There Will Be Double” at Museum Anna Nordlander, Skellefteå / Sweden
2017 – “Gore Text” at Galleriet, Umeå / Sweden
2017 – “Post Perfect/Paused Perfect” at Gamla Verket & Utopia, Umeå / Sweden
2017 – Mamut Art Project 2017, KüçükÇiftlik Park, Istanbul / Turkey
2017 – Chiang Mai Photo Festival, Chiang Mai / Thailand
2016 – “Good Housekeeping” at Splendid Isolation, Umeå / Sweden
2016 – “Grace” at Splendid Isolation, Umeå / Sweden
2016 – “Grow” at Galleri Gordon, Malmö / Sweden
Publications
2021 – 12.2021-15-Magazine
2020 – Problem gelöst? Geschichte(n) eines Virus / CH
2020 – Act of Seeing / SWE
Press
2019 – OnCurating (Issue 42) : Positive Space: An Exhibition Project on HIV/AIDS in Turkey
2019 – Artforum (April): “Positive Space”
2017 – Art Asia Pacific : A Mammoth In Istanbul Mamut Art Project 2017
2017 – Västerbottens Kuriren: “Ung Umeåkonst till Thailand”
Grants
2019 – Swiss Zhdk Excellence Grant