Biography

1987, Born in Kirklareli, Turkey. Lives and works in Berlin, Germany

She graduated from Yildiz Technical University, Art and Design Faculty, Combined Arts Program with the highest honors in 2014. She currently continuing MFA at Marmara University, Painting Department. In her works, her approach is based on the artificial fiction of the contemporary world system and how the absolute credibility of this fiction was influential on people. Thereupon, in order to question the credibility of the instruments of modernism, which is one of these systems, she felt the need to operate the concepts of family-individual-construction of national identity as well as Architectural propaganda in this new fiction by manipulating their contexts, spaces and places.
She was also awarded many respectable prizes, some of which are as follows; “Culture Ministry Contemporary Art Project Awards”, “Siemens Borders and Orbits Art Competition”, “New Generation Contemporary Artist from Turkey” etc. She made solo exhibition with the title of “Alteration Depression”. She took part in an interactive project called “Locality and Global Discourses 2015” together with California University School of Art. She realized her duo exhibition with Deniz Aktaş in Pilot Gallery in 2016 and joined several group exhibition in Kuad Gallery (which is managed by Beral Madra), Pg Art Gallery and etc... She continues her artwork in Berlin / Germany.

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www.ozgetopcu.com

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