Berka Beste Kopuz
About
Born in 1995 in Bursa, Berka Beste Kopuz completed her undergraduate education in 2017 at Marmara University, Faculty of Fine Arts, Painting Department with a double major in Graphic Design Department. She benefits these fields in her photography-based works.
During her studies, Beste started producing works focused on notions of city and memory. In her works which are based on the idea of illness, she underpins this view by incorporating the illuminated panels into her art practice. Kopuz uses mostly negative images, satellite images and transparent materials in her artistic production and focuses on transformation and change of the cities and living spaces and works on the remaining traces and space memory as the results of these processes. The artist puts the audience in the center of her works and thinks that the audience is a part of the works she produces. Based on this, she pays attention to the interactive feature of her works.
Mamut Art Project 2017, BASE 2017, CAPTCHA Design Festival, Mixer, Space Debris, BAK and Sonar İstanbul-Digilogue are among the places where the artist’s works are exhibited.
She currently lives and works in Istanbul.
