In his works, Burak Ata has always been chasing the traces of his autobiographic transformations as an artist. He positions himself at a permeable point in a particularly unpretentious manner and thus records and transmits the tides of his personal and the quotidian.
Zeynep Beler
Zeynep Beler (she/her) is an Istanbul-based painter whose practice overlaps indispensably with photography and vernacular imagery. She is most interested in images with “no [share] value” that clutter a phone's camera roll, utilitarian or “bad” images lacking evident indexicality. In her current body of work, she seeks insight into a new kind of latent image, one that exists in the new liminal space of human experience, the role of the “user”. This new kind of latency is targeted towards suspending the ever more capricious attention of the user, inviting them into a threshold of anticipation and/or apprehension. As Beler works she stays alert to how her sensibility is being steered by algorithms, using devices in which the processes of seeing, photographing, and sharing are collapsed, and ultimately exploring ways of painting in collaboration with technology.
Mustafa Boğa
Based in Adana, Turkey and London, England. Mustafa Boğa graduated from Harran University, Vocational College of Higher Education, Radio&TV Broadcasting Programme and from Istanbul University Faculty of Communication. Having received his master degrees from Greenwich University in Cinematography and Post Production as well as from Central Saint Martins in Fine Art, the artist has an interdisciplinary practice.
Antonio Cosentino
In Antonio Cosentino’s works, one finds a wealth of images distilled from everyday life, the depths of personal, memory, and the visual culture of the artist’s city. While the shifting character of highbrow and low-brow art was being discussed in the 90’s contemporary art milieus, Cosentino and his artist friends undertook, as it were, the archaeology of a gaze which brought subculture into question. It is from this period on that Cosentino’s painting incorporated materials from the visual culture of our geography without letting one dominate the others: panels, signboards, wrappings and ceramic tiles. The artist’s images embrace an expression that is dislocated and fragmentary, but also somehow holistic and repetitive, thereby breaking open a third window: a mnemonic space that is at once colorful and meditative…
Sinem Dişli
Sinem Dişli was born in Urfa, Turkey. She earned her BFA degree in Sculpture at Dokuz Eylul University and Master of Fine Arts degree in Photography at Marmara University with the dissertation thesis titled: The Use of Photography in the Art Movements of the 20th Century and Photography’s Relationship with the Concept of Avant-Garde. In 2008, she was awarded a scholarship to attend the School of Visual Arts in New York, and participated in visual arts programs at ICP and The Cooper Union...
Irmak Dönmez
Lacan’s words “I see only from one point, but in my existence I am looked at from all sides” are behind Irmak Dönmez’s take on how the dominated female body loses itself-being and is compelled to assume new meanings, which leads to a visual reimagining of the body with a naive eye, guided by phenomenological questions. In doing so, the artist nearly operates on the body, cutting it into pieces and studying them semantically. Her chief concerns are the values of sanctity, motherhood, enclosing, harnessing, and nurturing attributed to the female body.
Yuichiro Kikuma
Yuichiro Kikuma was born in Japan 1982. He got his bachelor’s degree on Fine art and Painting in Wimbledon College of Art in 2010, and his master’s degree on Fine Art in Central Saint Martins in 2016. Yuichiro Kikuma currently lives and works in London, UK...
Bence Magyarlaki
Bence Magyarlaki is a Hungarian artist born in 1992 currently based in Paris. He graduated with First Class Honours-from BA Fine Art (Hons) at Central Saint Martins, London in 2017. His latest body of work has been supported by Montresso Art Foundation in Marrakech.
Merve Morkoç
Merve Morkoç (b. 1986, Turkey) who continues to work from Istanbul, Turkey graduated from Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Graphic Design. Having participated in various group exhibitions, the artists’ solo exhibitions consist of (2021) “Evet Canlı Hayır Değil” - UP Art Project, (2014) “2+1” - Galerist, (2011) Prone - Galerist, (2010) “Netame Hanım ve Kumpanyası” - Milk Gallery ve (2010) “1335” - The Hall.
Meltem Sarıkaya
Sarıkaya states that her inquiries within her own life dynamics, from the early days of her artistic production until today, predominantly revolve around the heterosexism, homophobia, and the hypocritical gender bullying of the patriarchal society she was born into, which she observes in daily life. She indicates and references these issues in her artworks. The artist also emphasizes the dominant and active aspects through the masculine/feminine dichotomy instead of the traditional male/female binary. She visualizes concepts of power, sexuality, authority, violence, and femininity.
Alp Sime
Alp Sime, one of the prominent photographers of his era, reveals in his work the extraordinariness of the random with his unique way of seeing. An image captured randomly in the flow of daily life is transformed by Sime's visual language and interpretation. A strangeness that hints at the uncertain and sometimes surprising dynamics of the subconscious is reflected to the viewer through both familiar and unfamiliar visuals. The photographs dominated often by black and white, turn into another aesthetic reality with the presence of light...