FURKAN ÖZTEKİN

Furkan Öztekin (b. 1993) graduated from Dokuz Eylül University, Faculty of Fine Arts, Department of Painting. He completed his master's degree at Namık Kemal University, Social Sciences Institute, Department of Painting. He was one of the participants of the Istanbul Biennial Study and Research Program (2018-2019) and Arter Research Program (2020-2021). Akbank Contemporary Artists Award Exhibition (2015); Young New Different, Galeri Zilberman (2016); Colony, Abud Efendi Mansion / Schwules Museum (2017- 2018); Positive Space, Operation Room (2018); Four Seasons of May, Mixer (2019); He participated in various group exhibitions and competitions such as Internal/External, Simbart Projects (2021). Öztekin reconsiders the phenomenon of space on the axis of silence, emptiness, time, border and rhythm. Fueled by LGBTI+ activism, the artist questions the queer potential of concepts such as in-betweenness, uncertainty and illegibility in his productions where he uses paper as the main material. These concepts, which appear as a method of reorganizing the past, turn into a form of resistance through different forms.