At our 541st Art Gathering, we are visiting the studio of artist Burçak Bingöl.

Burçak Bingöl, born 1976 in Görele, Ankara

Growing up in Ankara, Bingöl completed her doctoral-level fine arts education at Hacettepe University in 2008, her music education at Ankara State Conservatory between 1985-1991, and her photography program at New School New York in 2009.

She has had solo exhibitions in New York, Berlin, Istanbul, and Ankara, including at Tate St Ives, Cornwall. She has participated in numerous group exhibitions, including Dialogues: Modern Artists and the Ottoman Past at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Frieze Sculpture 2025: In the Shadows, and the 15th Istanbul Biennial, A Good Neighbor. As a curator, she has organized four exhibitions in Ankara and Istanbul. She participated in artist residency programs at Porthmeor Studios - Cornwall, IASPIS - Stockholm, Cite des Arts - Paris, Hunter College - New York, and Gate 27 - Ayvalık.

Her works are included in public collections such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; 21C Museum, Kentucky; Salsali Private Museum, Dubai; MOCAK Museum of Contemporary Art, Krakow, Poland; Istanbul Modern Art Museum, Istanbul; Odunpazarı Modern Museum, Eskişehir; Baksı Museum, Bayburt, as well as private collections in Turkey, Europe, America, the Middle East, and the Far East.

She worked as a lecturer at Hacettepe and Istanbul Technical Universities; and served as the founding art director of Zilberman Gallery between 2011 and 2017. She is currently a member of the Advisory Board of the Hacettepe University Institute of Fine Arts.

Bingöl designs new mechanisms of formation and relation with familiar representations through methods of copying, tracing, demolition, and reconstruction. Drawing on personal and cultural background, her work creates new narratives where material, object, and image are constantly deconstructed and transformed into one another; she establishes a visual research space by relating to space at conceptual, formal, and sensory levels. She lives and works in Istanbul.

Wednesday, January 28

12:00-13:00

Address: Müeyyedzade Mahallesi, Ali Hoca Aralığı Sokak 4/4, Galata, Beyoğlu. (Door on the right upon entering the building)

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