Ekin Saçlıoğlu

Ekin Saçlıoğlu, who produces with a rich variety of materials in different disciplines such as painting, sculpture, design and installation, focuses on a wide variety of dualities such as fiction-real, natural-artificial, animate and inanimate, inversions, memory and memories, dreams, stories, animals and animals. It includes plants, the relations of different species and worlds with each other with metaphors.

The artist sometimes combines the image of a pit with the fictional and real world, and sometimes asks us to reflect on the ways people become invisible in social and political life through animal camouflage. Images of extinct animals and plants also point to the problems of existence in the human world. He asks us to reflect on the phenomenon of time while he breaks down the imaginary civilizations he has built and creates fictitious remains. In these structures, where man is not at the center, the animate and inanimate worldly beings mix, merge and disperse.

Ekin Saçlıoğlu (1979 İzmir, Turkey) completed her undergraduate and graduate studies at Mimar Sinan University, Department of Painting. The artist's first solo exhibition was held at Bir Culture and Art Center in 2004. "A Little Closer", (2005); "Storyteller's Memory", (2007); "Rabbit Sleep", (2009); "Shocked But Not Surprised", (2011); Solo exhibitions titled "The Pit", (2012) and "Choose and Hide" (2015) at x-ist; "These Are Not Fables Children" (2017) at Galata Greek Primary School, "Remains of Earth and New Flowers" ' (2018) met with the audience in Ankara Nev.

Among her selected group exhibitions, "Mardin Biennial Invited", Dabbakoğlu House, Mardin, (2022); ''PRINTED'22: Iziziz'', Mixer, Istanbul, (2022); ‘'Holding on'', YapıKredi Bomontiada, Istanbul, (2021); “Excellent Cadaver”, Gallery Nev Istanbul, (2021); “What Does It Look Like?”, 7th Çanakkale Biennial, Mahal, Çanakkale, (2020); “At the End of the Day”, OMM, Eskişehir, (2020); “The Secret Life of Objects”, Evliyagil Dolapdere, Istanbul, 2019; “Paper - A Selection from Turkish Contemporary Art”, Pilevneli Project Mecidiyeköy, Istanbul, (2019); “Small Sweet Lies”, Plato Sanat, Istanbul, (2018); "Weed", M.Ü. Republic Museum, Istanbul, (2018); “The Side of the Animals”, Mixer, Istanbul, (2017); “Future Past”, Yekaterinburg History and Archeology Museum, Yekaterinburg, (2017); “The Door Opens to the One Who Knocked”, Abdülmecid Mansion, Istanbul, (2017); "Imagination and Reality", Istanbul Modern, Istanbul, (2011); “Leisure Big Business”, Platform 3 Munich, Munich, (2011); "Chaotic Metamorphosis" Project 4L, Elgiz Museum, Istanbul, (2010); “10th Year at Kasa”, Kasa Gallery, Istanbul, (2010); “450 Million Years of Friendship”, Hafriyat Karaköy, Istanbul, (2009).

His works have been exhibited in fairs in Strasbourg, Hong Kong, Dubai, Basel and Miami. The artist lives and works in Istanbul.