Doğukan Çiğdem is a Turkish artist.
Çiğdem was born in 1988. He is a visual and experimental media artist based in Istanbul, Turkey. He has worked in several prestigious humour magazines. His unique drawings accompany numerous stories and tales that he has written for these magazines. Çiğdem worked with Sculptor Mehmet Aksoy on pattern, design and sculpture in 2015. He has been working in his personal studio in Cihangir, Istanbul since 2016 and collaborates with several arts institutions. Çiğdem defines his artistic style as a “chaotic and pictorial representation of stories of people who do not live where they are born anymore and of whom are not asked any own decisions”.
Statement from Doğukan Çiğdem:
“Every person has a bit of excitement to hold onto his/her life. Even a little bit of spark… But, the most solid evidence of our living paths are forms. I aim to reflect the new world that has been found all over again by our children, untainted customs and conscience created by the cultural spirit in the pictorial, visual and mechanical ways. Are the flat forms of modern days, happiness motivation of the future? Or, fake brightness of a degenerated world? We, for sure, think about the future as from today.”
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Selected Events
Solo Exhibitions:
- 2018 “All The Way Through” – Galeri Bu, Istanbul.
- 2016 “Evrenin Çocuksu Yüzü (Puerilely Face of the Universe)” – Kaş Sanat Art
Center, Istanbul.
Exhibitions:
- 2017 “Eşzamanlılık | Synchronicity” – Curated by İpek Yeğinsü, Mebusan 25, Istanbul.
- 2017 “Pascal’ın Oyunu (Game of Pascal)” – Galeri Eksen, Istanbul.
- 2017 “Mutfak (The Cuisine)” – Beyoğlu Kayla, Istanbul.
- 2017 “Gerçek Ne? (What’s the reality?)” – Erva Art Gallery, Istanbul.
Art Fairs:
- 2017 “Utopia” – Istanbul International Art Fair, Galeri Bu, Istanbul.