Gözde İlkin

Gözde İlkin primarily works with fabric along with other materials and techniques. Stitching and embroidery along with painting, drawing, photography, video and sound installations are her practices in making art. She collects domestic fabrics such as tablecloths, curtains, bed sheets and other
materials to create a personal archive of memory that she can refer to in accordance with her creative
framework. She constructs forms, which offer confrontational interactions within the motifs of fabrics. Her figures are combined with abstract cloudlike forms that aim to represent feelings and unresolved promises that remain abstract and in limbo that question cultural codes especially regarding social and political relationships/manipulation, borders, power domains, gender attitudes and urban transformation.
Gözde İlkin (b. 1981, Kütahya, Turkey) completed her undergraduate degree from Mimar Sinan Fine
Arts University painting department in 2004 and her graduate degree from Marmara Fine Arts Faculty
painting department in 2012. Solo shows include Stand Alone and All Together, artSümer, Istanbul;
As the Roots Spoke, the Cracks Deepen, MAC VAL Museum, Vitry-sur-Seine, Paris (2019); Organized Habitation, Galerie Paris-Beijing, Paris (2019); Found Landscape, Gypsum Gallery, New York (2018); Absent Demonstration, artSümer, İstanbul, (2017); The Trap, Gypsum Gallery, Cairo (2016); Stained Estate, Françoise Heitsch Gallery, Munich (2015) and Please Clear the Dance Floor!, artSümer, İstanbul (2010). Selected group exhibitions she participated in include Unspeakable Home, Enchanting Companions (curator: Derya Bayrakoğlu), Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe (2019); The Event of a Thread: Global Narratives in Textiles, (curators: Susanne Weiß, Inka Gressel and Öykü Özsoy), İstanbul Modern, İstanbul (2019); Home is Where the Heart is, Galerie Paris-Beijing, Paris, (2018); A Good Neighbour-On the Road, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich (2017); A Good Neighbour, 15th Istanbul Biennial (curator: Elmgreen and Dragset), Pera Museum, İstanbul (2017); Spaceliner (curator: Barbara Heinrich), Arter, İstanbul, (2015); Journey Wanderings in Contemporary Turkey (curator: Herve Mikaeloff), Espace Culturel Louis Vuitton, Paris (2012). Upcoming shows include 13th Gwangju Biennial, South Korea (2021). She has participated in artist residencies at the MAC VAL Museum, Vitry-sur Seine, Paris; Pioneer Works, New York; Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris and Künstlerhaus Bremen. She lives and works in Istanbul.