Furkan Öztekin (b. 1993) is a visual artist & researcher who lives and works in Tekirdag, Turkey. He graduated from the Painting Department at Dokuz Eylül University Faculty of Fine Arts and completed his postgraduate studies at Namık Kemal University Institute of Social Sciences, Department of Painting. He was among the participants of Istanbul Biennial Production and Research Programme (2018-2019) & Arter Research Programme (2020-2021). Öztekin was an artist in residence at Ankara Queer Art Program (July-August 2021). He has participated in exhibitions including Akbank Contemporary Artists Prize Exhibition (2015); Young Fresh Different VII, Zilberman Gallery (2016); colony, Schwules Museum (2018); Positive Space, Operation Room (2018); The Weight of the World, Kasa Galeri (2021); 8th. Çanakkale Biennial (2022). Öztekin’s solo exhibitions include Four Seasons In May, Mixer Arts (2019); Internal/External, Simbart Projects (2021); In the Tenderest Spot, Siyah Beyaz Art Gallery (2021) & Wait for Me (In The Same Sky), Nue (2023).
In his recent works, Furkan Öztekin emphasises the social through personal archives and stories. Since 2019, the artist has been working with the archive of artist and activist Ceyhan Fırat and focuses on the concepts of space, borders, emptiness, abstraction and loss through the possibilities of queer art. In his works, Öztekin uses different media such as collage, photography, painting and found objects.
Contact
furkanoztekin65@gmail.com
Schwules Museum, 2018 (Photo: Elfin Açar)
Education
2012-2016 (Bachelor) Dokuz Eylül University Faculty of Fine Arts, Painting, İzmir
2017-2020 (MA) Namık Kemal University Institute of Social Sciences Department of Painting, Tekirdag
2022-2026 (PhD) Trakya University Institute of Social Sciences Department of Painting, Edirne
Solo Projects & Exhibitions
2023 Aç Yazı için 32 Kapak, Norgunk, Istanbul
2023 Wait for Me (In the Same Sky), Nue, Ankara
2022 Street Cleaning, Senkron & Simbart Projects, Istanbul
2021 In the Tenderest Spot, Siyah Beyaz, Ankara
2021 Internal/External, Simbart Projects, Istanbul
2020 A Topography of its Own, Riverrun, Istanbul
2019 Four Seasons In May, Mixer Arts, Istanbul
Selected Group Exhibitions
2025 Narrative Power Alliance: Exhibition, Barın Han, Istanbul
2025 tedbir, Kıraathane Istanbul Literature House, Istanbul
2024 Queerreality – New Realms of Surrealism, Galerie Kulturbunker-Köln Mülheim e.V.
2024 A Shot Away, Jardins do Bombarda, Lisbon, Portugal
2024 Sense of Earth, Barbare Studio, Tekirdağ
2024 POV, Gallery Kairos, Istanbul
2024 Lithography, Kasa Galeri, Istanbul
2023 Perdu et Retrouvé, l’Institut Français d’Izmir, Izmir
2023 2019, Zilberman Gallery, Istanbul
2023 Resurgence In Fragments, Depo, Istanbul
2023 Homecoming, Gallery Kairos, Istanbul
2022 8th Çanakkale Biennial, Are Projects & MAHAL, Çanakkale
2021 Letter to a Friend, Ka Atölye, Ankara
2021 The Weight of the World, Kasa Galeri, Istanbul
2021 Aesthetics of the Struggle, Intentions, Akbank Sanat, Istanbul
2020 Us Actually, Mixer Arts, Istanbul
2019 HIVstories. Living Politics, Schwules Museum, Germany
2019 Sınır/sız Alan, Kıraathane Istanbul Literature House, Istanbul
2018 Yawning Void (with Ezgi Tok), Shelter Artists Run Space, Izmir
2018 Positive Space, Operation Room, American Hospital, Istanbul
2018 colony, Schwules Museum, Berlin, Germany
2018 Istanbul Rotary Art Award Competition Exhibition, Elgiz Museum, Istanbul
2017 colony, Abud Efendi Mansion, Istanbul
2017 Geography, 25th Istanbul LGBTI+ Pride Week Exhibition, Galeri Bu, Istanbul
2017 Mamut Art Project, Küçükçiftlik Park, Istanbul
2016 Grid, Mixer Arts, Istanbul
2016 Young, Fresh and Different VII, Zilberman Gallery, Istanbul
2015 Akbank Contemporary Artist Prize Exhibition, Akbank Sanat, Istanbul
Residencies & Research Programs
IKSV Istanbul Biennial Production and Research Pogramme (2018-2019)
Arter Research Programme (2020-2021)
Ankara Queer Art Program – Artist Residecy (July-August 2021)
Yazıhane, Narmanlı Sanat (2021-2022)
Awards
2023 INARS International Congress, Best Paper Award
2018 Istanbul Rotary Art Award Competition Exhibition Grand Prize
2015 Akbank Contemporary Artist Prize Exhibition, Akbank Sanat
Press, Reviews & Texts
2015 iso400, Monday Morning Photo Series, 69,83,84,90
2015 PLA+FORM, Issue:2, Porfolio
2017 ArtAsiaPasific, A Mammoth In Istanbul: Mamut Art Project 2017, Gökcan Demirkazık
2017 Ait Olunanın İzinde, Fulya Baran, Hürriyet Kitap Sanat
2017 Queer Marksizm, Kaos GL, Sayı:150
2017 Ülker ve Pürtelaş İzler Sergisinde, Kaos GL
2018 Rotary Sanat Yarışması’nda Poetik İmgeler ve Politik Temsiller, Hüseyin Gökçe, Istanbul Art News, Sayı: 53
2019 İmgesel Yansımalar, İlker Cihan Biner, Ocak, Istanbul Art News, Sayı: 58
2019 Kağıdın Direnişçi Hali ve Durağanlığın Öngörülemez Ritmi, Şeyma Güzelaydın, Lokall Online
2019 Europach Newsletter, June, Edited by Lina Bonde
2019 On Curating, What You Don’t Know About AIDS Could Fill a Museum, Editor: Theodore Kerr, Issue 42
2020 The Way We Live Now 1987-2020, Arie Amaya-Akkermans, The Mantle
2021 Göçmüş Bir Sergi İçin Yazı: Furkan Öztekin ve Kâğıt-Makas Oyunu, Niyazi Zorlu, Sanatkritik
2021 Eşit Haklar, Kaos GL, Sayı:180
2021 En Hassas Yerinde, Fatih Özgüven, Argonotlar
2021 Gözetleme altında örülen aşk emeği ve Dünyanın Ağırlığı, Melih Aydemir, Argonotlar
2021 In the Tenderest Spot was opened, Kaos GL
2022 İnsana Ait İzler, Yeni İşler Yeni Keşifler, Milliyet Sanat, Ocak 2022
2022 Avcının değil avın yolları, Gözde Demirbilek, Kaos GL
2022 Saklı Yerlerde Bir Gezinti, Onur Çimen, Sanat Dünyamız, Sayı: 186
Texts by Furkan Öztekin
2016 LGBTI+ Activism after 1990 and its Reflections on Art Practices, Dokuz Eylül University Faculty of Fine Arts
2020 Collage as a Form of Expression in Contemporary Art, Namık Kemal University Institute of Social Sciences
2021 Gökyüzüne Uzanmak: Açık Sütun Üzerine Bir Deneme, Argonotlar
2021 Haz ve İhlal: Berke Yazıcıoğlu, Miguel Ángel Rojas ve Patrick Angus, Argonotlar
2021 Yol Üstünde, Yağmur Altında: Ceyhan Fırat’ın Bacak Böcek Oyunu, Trans Çalışmaları, KaosQ+
2021 Pleasure and Breach: Berke Yazicioglu, Miguel Ángel Rojas, and Patrick Angus, OUT Collective, Vortic
2021 Opening the Boxes/Terminals, Re: [aap_2020], Arter Publications
2022 Köşe Başında Bir Sanatçı: Stephen Varble, Kesişimsel Aktivizm, Sayı: 182, Kaos GL
2022 Eser Metni, Artisans, Ocak-Şubat-Mart, Sayı:20
2022 Kagura Dansına Mekân Odaklı Bir Bakış, Yazıhane, Narmanlı Sanat
2022 Kitap Kenarlarına Gizlenen Hikâyeler, Sanat Kritik
2022 Marlow Moss: Konstrüktivizm ve Kimlik İnşası, Velvele
2022 Denize Bırakmak: Füsun Onur’un Pembe Botları, Manifold
2022 Bilinçli Manzaralar, Argonotlar
2022 İklim Krizinin Gölgesinde Queer Sanat, İklim, Sayı: 184, Kaos GL
2022 Israr, Tekrar ve İstikrar, Sanat Kritik
2022 Sessiz Bir Diyalog: Tom Król, Yazıhane, Narmanlı Sanat
2022 Tanıdık/Tuhaf Sergi Metni, Sınır/sız & Koli Art Space
2022 1920’lerin İllüstrasyonlarında Queer Temsiller: George Barbier, Velvele
2022 Mavi Gözler Siyah Saçlar ve Queer Arzu: Marguerite Duras, Sanat Kritik
2022 Tanıklıktan Doğan Paradoksal İlişkiler, Argonotlar
2022 Y: Queer Bir Gelecek İhtimaline Doğru, Sanat Kritik
2022 Sınırların Ötesinde Bir Müzikhol: Değirmen, Onur, Sayı: 186, Kaos GL
2022 Küçük Jestler ve Dilin Potansiyelleri: Manuel Tzoc ve Alev Ersan, Yazıhane, Narmanlı Sanat
2022 Karmaşıklığın İzinde Yeni Birliktelikler, Sanat Dünyamız, Yapı Kredi Yayınları
2022 Sahnede 90’lar ve Moni Salim Özgilik Arşivi, Aposto & Argonotlar Güncel Sanat Bülteni
2022 İçinde Kaybolduğumuz, Yeniden Doğduğumuz Evler, Sayı: 340, Hürriyet Gösteri
Interview & Talks
2015 Stripes Zine, Portfolio & Short Interview
2017 LGBTİ+ Direniş Tarihine Günümüzden Bir Bakış: Furkan Öztekin, Artfulliving
2018 Diyaloglar, Gülsün Karamustafa ile Furkan Öztekin, Rotary Sanat
2019 Hilal Güler ile Dört Mevsimlik Mayıs Üzerine Söyleşi, Mixer Arts
2020 Galeri Bu Röportaj Serisi, Furkan Öztekin
2020 Mixer Online Atölye Ziyaretleri #1, Furkan Öztekin
2021 Bu Bizim Hikâyemiz, Özlem Altunok ile Söyleşi, Argonotlar
2021 Dahili/Harici Sergi Söyleşisi, Simbart Projects
2021 Plastic Güç Sergi Söyleşisi, Akbank Sanat
2021 1970 Sonrası Kuir Sanat Pratiklerinde Sokak, Pride Istanbul
2021 Litho Days Turkey (with Gökhun Baltacı & Naz Önen), Ka Atölye, Ankara
2021 Kuir Opaklık ve Ayşe Erkmen’in Açık Sütun Heykeli, (Kültigin Kağan Akbulut & Furkan Öztekin), Kıraathane, İstanbul
2021 In the Tenderest Spot, Artist Talk, Siyah Beyaz Art Gallery & Ankara Queer Art Program
2021 Your gaze is a spike in the tenderest spot (İz Öztat & Furkan Öztekin), Ankara Queer Art Program
2022 Un/Freedom: Art as Activism, Virtual Conversation with Artists Across the Regions
2022 10. Yaşındaki Mamut’u 10 Sanatçı Anlatıyor, Artdog
2022 Tazyikli suyun aşındırdığı insancıllığımız, Artunlimited
Publications
2016 Happy Ending, self-published, 3 Ed.
2018 Yawning Void (with Ezgi Tok), Shelter Artist Run Space, 40 Ed.
2019 Four Seaons In May, Exhibition Catalogue, Mixer Arts
2021 In the Tenderest Spot, Exhibition Newspaper, Siyah Beyaz Art Gallery
2021 Re: [aap_2020], Arter Publications
Exhibiton Videos
2018 Positive Space, Exhibition Video (Video & Editing: Beril Ece Güler)
2020 Us Actually, Mixer Arts (Video & Editing: Can Kılcıoğlu)
2021 Internal/External, Simbart Projects, (Video & Editing: Melih Bakır)
2021 Güneş Doğana Kadar Sohbet, Lithography, Dou Printstudio (Video & Editing: Naz Önen)
2021 In The Tenderest Spot, Siyah Beyaz Art Gallery (Video & Editing: Naz Önen)
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