Ezgi Karataş

She was born in 1992 in Ankara. In 2006, she entered the Ankara Anatolian Fine Arts High School Painting Department with first place and graduated as the top student of the school. In 2010, she started to study at Yeditepe University Plastic Arts Department. She continued her workshop training with Ergin İnan, Mustafa Ata, M. Zahit Çeşkişleyen, Ferhat Özgür, M. Turan Aksoy and Muammer Bozkurt. In 2012, she started to do a double major at Yeditepe University Department of Interior Architecture. In 2015, she graduated from both departments with faculty and department degrees. In 2015, she was accepted to Yeditepe University Plastic Arts Department Master’s Program and wrote her thesis titled “The Mutual Interaction of Art and Architecture Relations”.

The artist, who was accepted to Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University Interior Architecture Doctorate Program in 2020, is currently continuing his doctorate studies and continues her academic career as a Research Assistant at Yeditepe University Faculty of Architecture Department of Interior Architecture. Continuing her academic and artistic studies on international platforms, Karataş became one of the 4 young Turkish artists invited to Hamburg in 2016. The artist, who continued his works in Hamburg for a while, was exhibited in various places. The artist was invited to Hamburg again by Altona Municipality in 2017 and 2018. She participated as an observer-artist in the Traditional Altona Festival and Altonale Kunstmarkt organized by Hamburg Altona Municipality. The artist desires the reflections of the original spaces to be opened by the relationship between art and architecture, which are reshaped with utopian approaches that transcend the usage limits of the space, and the audience to experience these reflections in the atmosphere they will feel. In her studies; by creating instant utopian spaces, it makes the viewer question only the current situation, worlds and feelings of the objects and individuals in different situations in these utopian spaces. The subject of the artist’s work; It is about the temporality of the moment, its disappearance, the existence of the atmosphere of that moment only at that moment and the fact that it cannot be repeated again.

Group Exhibitions:

2020 -“from Artist to Artist” Group Exhibition (7-12), Büyükdere35, Istanbul
2019 -Collage of Fors Media Billboards, Ilbak Holding, Istanbul
2019 -“from Artist to Artist” Group Exhibition (9-12), Büyükdere35, Istanbul
2018 -BASE, Group Exhibition, Galata Rum School , Istanbul
2018 -Lighting Element Design Project with Conversion Materials, Ataşehir Municipality, Istanbul
2018 -Altonale Festival , ” Artist in Residence Programmeand KunstMarkt” , Hamburg, GERMANY
2017 -Design Week, Executive for Yeditepe University Faculty of Architecture Students Project Tasks, Lütfi Kırdar Congress Center, Istanbul
2017 -Art Suites Gallery, 25. International Art Workshop, Group Exhibition , Yalıkavak,Bodrum
2017 -Altonale Festival , ” Festival Observation and Reporting ” , Hamburg, GERMANY
2017 -GTZ Art, Group Exhibition, Lütfi Kırdar Congress Center, Istanbul
2017 -Yeniköy Rotary Club, “Bazaart Project”, Group Exhibition, Sofa Hotel, Istanbul
2016 -” Sustainable Urban Elements / Beşiktaş “, Workshop Executive for National Conference , T. C. Istanbul TicaretUniversity, Istanbul
2016 -Art Suites Gallery, 21. International Art Workshop, Group Exhibition, Yalıkavak, Bodrum
2016 -Time at Yeditepe VI , ” Survive ” Group Exhibition, Ortaköy Congress Center, Istanbul
2016 -FRISE Art Gallery, ” Four Young Turkish Artists Group Exhibition “, Hamburg, GERMANY
2016 -Altonale Festival , ” Artist in Residence Programme ” , Hamburg, GERMANY
2016 -Yeditepe University 5. Floor Cep Gallery, ” Yükseğe Bakmak ” Group Exhibition, Yeditepe University, Istanbul
2016 -UPSD Gallery, Group Exhibition, Istanbul
2016 -Yeniköy Rotary Club, “Bazaart Project”, Group Exhibition, Sofa Hotel, Istanbul
2015 -M-Art Gallery, Four Young Artists Group Exhibition, Chilai Restaurant, Istanbul
2015 -Yeniköy Rotary Club, “Bazaart Project”, Group Exhibition, Sofa Hotel, Istanbul
2010 -Certificate for “European Union Symposium”, Ankara
2009 -Certificate for “The World’s Longest Postcard Project”, POLAND
2009 -Diploma for “31st International Fine Art Competition for Children and Youth, Ankara
2009 -Certificate for “ Group Painting Exhibition”, Anatolian of Fine Arts High School, Ankara
2003-2004 -Certificate for “Three Dimensional Figure”, Ankara
1997 -Certificate for “ Environment with Child Perception”, Preschool Education Development Association of Turkey, Ankara