Friday, October 2, 9:45 a.m. – 10:45 a.m.
Friday, October 2, 11:15 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.
Friday, October 2, 12:45 p.m. – 1:45 p.m.
1h
€60
From 16 years old
English
Burçak Bingöl
Join exhibiting artist Burçak Bingöl for a hands-on workshop exploring the relationship between material, memory, and transformation. Drawing on her distinctive artistic practice, Bingöl will introduce participants to the ideas and techniques that inform her work, inviting them to experiment with collage, pattern, and ornament as contemporary forms of storytelling.
The workshop will take inspiration from the unique compositions of 16th-century İznik plates in museum collections across Europe, exploring the historical language of their motifs and ornamental vocabulary. Guided by Bingöl, participants will create their own unique rose gardens by reinterpreting these traditional elements through collage, developing personal compositions that bridge historical craftsmanship and contemporary artistic expression.
Through conversation, making, and shared reflection, participants will gain unique insight into the artist’s creative process. Suitable for all levels of experience, the workshop offers a rare opportunity to engage directly with one of the exhibition’s featured artists.
THIS WORKSHOP IS CONDUCTED IN ENGLISH.
Burçak Bingöl, born in 1976 in Görele, lives in Istanbul
Burçak Bingöl has exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Frieze Sculpture, and the Istanbul Biennial, and has developed a practice based on processes of tracing, copying, and reformulating to deconstruct familiar motifs. Following extensive research, she stages an indoor rose garden ceramic installation referencing 16th-century Ottoman Iznik plates, the MACS MTO garden, and the foundational Sufi parable of the Rose and the Nightingale, central to the Sufi narrative of longing and unattainable love.
Burçak Bingöl. ©Mine Erkmen, 2025.
