Beyza Boynudelik

Beyza Boynudelik is a Turkish artist, born in 1975. 

Beyza Boynudelik participates in solo exhibitions, group shows, symposiums and workshops in Turkey and abroad. Her works can be found in both individual and institutional collections. She produces art mainly in the mediums of painting, printmaking and sculpture. Her artistic interest and creation also reaches into fields of installation and video. Beyza Boynudelik was a part of Initiative 216, Thinking and Production Zone between 2009 – 2012. She is currently working on a number of projects with KRE Collective. Boynudelik currently lives and works in Istanbul.

Artistic Trajectory: 

Beyza Boynudelik produces works that are realizations of everyday events. In her vision, the view of the city is perceived as a living organism, an unseen imaginable world with figures which are in perpetual contact with each other. Boynudelik possesses a fresh sensibility for objects.

Beyza Boynudelik is in a continuous quest to explore people’s relations with each other. At times, there is an ironic attitude in her paintings. She tries to analyze the background of the visible by tracing and focusing on how lonely and isolated urban individual lives can be – seen as distant from sincerity and reality with scepticism between virtual life and real identity. World issues, intimacy and the issues faced by women living in this geographical area are some of the leading subjects of her latest works.

Quotidian tragedies, roles that have been put on, and masks to hide behind. Bizarre complications of daily life, and their effects. Through her works, Beyza Boynudelik tries to visualize the path of today’s individuals as they become reactionless, emotionless, solitary and almost devoid of memory while trying to perform the role of the “ideal metropolitan subject” in city life with constantly changing agendas. While criticizing how fast-food news and soap opera lives leave more traces in the mind of the individual than real tragedies, Beyza Boynudelik seeks to present the audience with the state of this individual – living a life of visual and emotional trash- who investigates “the other” under a mask of indifference, without looking them in the eye. She seeks to point at the masks of status and power-oriented apathetic crowds, of those who, according to Bauman, experience “false encounters”.

Beyza Boynudelik’s works, which explore the reality and sincerity of the metropolitan subject – who despite all kinds of disasters, manage to stay indifferently happy but also live in deep depression brought on by the tiniest of troubles –  will continue to be exhibited in upcoming series. 

Education: 

• B.A. (1999)           Mimar Sinan University, Academy of Fine Arts, Painting Department, Istanbul
• M.F.A. (2003)     Mimar Sinan University, Academy of Fine Arts, Painting Department, Istanbul
• PhD (ongoing)    Mimar Sinan University, Academy of Fine Arts, Painting Department, Istanbul

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