Ayşegül Yapar
I, Ayşegül (b. 1996, Istanbul), am a multi-disciplinary artist and an emerging curator. I work with the overlooked details of everyday life, its routines, minor objects, and quiet pauses; to question how power is organized at home, in the street, and inside cultural institutions. Using installation, photography, print, and craft-based processes, I examine the political weight carried by domestic labor, delayed time, and other “small” acts that often pass unnoticed. My investigation is to show that the politics of our lives sit on the surface of the ordinary, waiting to be seen, and re-imagined, together.
PUBlICATIONS
What If You Didn't Know?: On Thinking and Creating Together
[2023] - interview
What If You Didn't Know?
[2023] - publication
New Exhibition at (Barın Han): Occupation
[2023] - publication
Broken Octave
[2022] - publication
With the productions of Ayşegül Yapar, Ece Yalçın, and Sofia Abraham in 5533
[2022] - publication
Concept: Balcony
[2022] - publication
Talks / Podcasts
Exhibiting Methods: Ornament with Figen Yılmaz
Atatürk Cultural Center, Vitali Hakko Library
[2024] - talk
What If You Didn't Know?
On Criticism and the Anxiety of Understanding with Ayşegül Yapar and Eda Sütünç
[2023] - podcast in Turkish
EDUCATION
MA - Arts, Museology & Curatorship
Bologna University, Italy
[2023 - ongoing]
MA - Visual Arts
Sabancı University, Turkey
[2020 - 2022]
BA - Visual Arts § Visual Communication Design
Sabancı University, Turkey
[2015 - 2020]
◊ Art Theory § Criticism Minor Degree
◊ Psychology Minor Degree
Art projects / Exhibitions
Binding References
Barın Han - Istanbul, Turkey
[29 May - 05 June 2025]
Bacio Collective - Bern, Switzerland
[9 Nov. - 08 Dec. 2024]
funded by CultureCivic, European Union Project
[Dec. 2023 - ongoing]
Closing The Circle
MATCA Art Space, Cluj - Napoca, Romania
[19 Oct. - 04 Nov. 2023]
What If You Didn't Know?
Kasa Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey
[1 Sep. - 09 Nov. 2023]
Capriola Art Festival
Pia Studio & 5533, Lecce, Italy
[15 - 17 Sep. 2023]
border_less ARTBOOK DAYS
ARTER, Istanbul, Turkey
[4 - 7 May 2023]
8th Colour: Woman and Trace
Ataturk Culture Center, Istanbul, Turkey
[7 March - 2 April 2023]
Occupation
Barın Han, Istanbul, Turkey
[22 Dec. 2022 - 21 Jan. 2023]
Broken Octave
5533, Istanbul, Turkey
[26 Nov. - 29 Dec. 2022]
Open Studio
Sabancı University, Istanbul, Turkey
[January 2022]
Balcony?
AKBANK 39th Contemporary Artist Prize Exhibition, Istanbul, Turkey
[21 Sep. - 20 Nov. 2021]
Resonance
BASE Ist. , Istanbul, Turkey
[29 Sep. - 3 Oct. 2021]
Yek-1
Sabancı University, Istanbul, Turkey
[14 June 2021]
Far - Near
BASE Ist. , Istanbul, Turkey
[20 - 25 Nov. 2020]
Spark
FASS Art Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey
[2019]
Photography Matters
FASS Art Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey
[2018]