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Born in Görele and raised in Ankara, Burçak Bingöl completed her art education at PhD level in the Fine Arts Faculty at Hacettepe University, Ankara. She also completed programs on music at Ankara State Conservatory between 1985-91 and on Photography at New School, New York in 2009.
She realized solo exhibitions in New York, Ankara, Istanbul, Berlin, and Tate St Ives. She was part of many group exhibitions in Turkey and abroad, including Dialogues: Modern Artists and the Ottoman Past at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Frieze Sculpture 2025: In the Shadows, London; and the 15th Istanbul Biennial, a good neighbor. As a curator, she has made four exhibitions in Ankara and Istanbul. She participated in various artist residency programs such as Porthmeor Studios – Cornwall, IASPIS – Stockholm, Cité des Artes – Paris, Hunter College – New York, and Gate 27 – Ayvalık. Her works are in many public and private collections in the US, Europe, the Middle and Far East including the Metropolitan Museum of Art – New York, 21C Museum – Kentucky, Salsali Private Museum – Dubai, MOCAK Museum of Contemporary Art – Krakow, Istanbul Modern Art Museum, Istanbul; OMM Odunpazarı Modern Museum – Eskişehir, Baksı Museum – Bayburt. Bingöl worked as a faculty member at Hacettepe University and Istanbul Technical University. She held the position of Zilberman Gallery’s founding artistic director between 2011 and 2017. She is currently a member of the advisory board of the Fine Arts Institute of Hacettepe University, Ankara. She uses the processes of tracing, copying and re-forming, and constructs new sets of configurations by de-structuring familiar representations. Within this culturally and personally charged scope of examination, her works emerge through a constant re-working of images, objects and forms, converging in a repetitive act where fiction and failure merge. As such, their architectural, sensorial and conceptual relations to space open up a research field of visual exploration. She currently lives and works in Beyoğlu, Istanbul.
Image: Portrait of Burçak Bingöl. ©Mine Erkmen, 2025. |
