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Visual Arts, Contemporary Art, Sculpture, Installation

Biography

Sevgi Aka is a conceptual artist and academic. Her three-dimensional investigations and installation works deal with physical and conceptual absence as a field of possibility. She studied art history in Celaya, Mexico, visual arts in Sabanci University (BA, MA), Istanbul and School of the Art Institute Chicago (BFA). She completed her Doctorate in Dokuz Eylul University with the thesis: “Absence as Potential in Contemporary Art”.

Her solo exhibition Leaking from Sleep took place in Gallery A, Izmir, TR (2023). She has shown Geri Dönüş’üm (Re-cycle / my Re-Turn), spatial intervention, an ex-gallery and a new recycle center, Istanbul (2023) and The Belly of the Whale, a spatial intervention on Bosphorus, Istanbul (2022) and I am not West, I am not East, performance, Kotti-Shop Project Space, Berlin (2022). Her works were shown in group exhibitions including, Water-Bound, Theater Aufbau Kreuzberg, Berlin (2024), Words on Water, Hinterland, Vienna (2023), Yapı Kredi Culture and Arts, Istanbul (2022), Barın Han, Istanbul (2022), Art On Gallery, Istanbul (2020), Hahmekan, Istanbul (2017), The Clemente, Abrazo Interno Gallery, NY (2015), among others.

She attended Daire Artist Residency, co-funded by EU and TR (2019) and Cura Bodrum Residency (2010). She co-organized “The Absent Monument of Kreuzberg, a Multidisciplinary Workshop”, which received Kreuzberg District Artistic Grant, hosted by Museum FHXB, Berlin (2022). She was a visiting scholar/artist in various universities and institutions, gave talks, workshops and lectures. She presented papers in conferences and published articles. Currently, she works as an assistant professor at Istanbul Topkapı University and teaches visual arts. In 2024, she received her Associate Professorship from the Higher Education Council of Turkey.

Activities

Employment (6)

Istanbul Topkapı University: Istanbul, Turkey, TR

2020-10-10 to present | Associate Professor (Visual Communication Design)
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Sakıp Sabanci Museum: Istanbul, TR

2019 to 2020 | Mediation, Guided Exhibition Tours (Exhibition “Flow” Marina Abramovic )
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Sakıp Sabanci Museum: Istanbul, TR

2017-08 to 2018-03 | Art Consultant, Conceptualization, Mediation (Exhibition "Ai Weiwei on Porcelain")
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Istanbul Culture and Arts Foundation: Istanbul, TR

2015-03 to 2015-09 | Project Coordinator of the large scale installation of Adrian Villar Rojas (14th İstanbul Biennial, Salt Water)
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K2 Contemporary Art Center: Izmir, TR

2013 to 2014 | Assistant Curator (Curator Sasa Nabergoj) (Port Izmir 3, Contemporary Art Triennial)
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Sabancı University: Istanbul, TR

2012 to 2014 | Teaching Assistant (Visual Arts)
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Education and qualifications (6)

Dokuz Eylül University: Izmir, TR

2015 to 2020 | PhD (Painting)
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Sabancı University: Istanbul, TR

2012 to 2014 | MA (Visual Arts and Visual Communications Design)
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School of the Art Institute of Chicago: Chicago, Illinois, US

2011 to 2012 | BFA (Sculpture and Performance)
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Nuevo Accademia di Belle Arti: Milan, IT

2009-09 to 2010-02 | Erasmus Exchange (Visual Arts and Painting)
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Sabancı University: Istanbul, TR

2006 to 2010 | BA (Visual Arts and Visual Communications Design)
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Universidad de Celaya: Celaya, Guanajuato, MX

2005-08 to 2006-07 | Rotary Long Term Cultural Exchange Program (Art History)
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Professional activities (4)

Augsburg University of Applied Sciences: Augsburg, DE

2023-11 to 2023-11 | Invited Artist / Assistant Professor (Faculty of Design)
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Freie Universität Berlin: Berlin, DE

2023-06 to 2023-06 | Invited Artist / Assistant Professor ( Institute of Philology, German as a foreign language: Cultural Mediation)
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Union of Chambers of Turkish Engineers and Architects: Istanbul, TR

2022-12 to 2022-12 | Speaker: "Spatial Interventions in Contemporary Art" (Art for Justice Event Series)
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Yaşar University: Izmir, TR

2016-04 to 2016-04 | Invited Scholar (Design Studio)
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Funding (1)

"The Absent Monument of Kreuzberg, a Multidisciplinary Workshop"

2020 to 2022 | Grant
Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg District (Berlin, DE)
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Works (10)

Mobility and Multi-perspectived Openness in the Artistic Practice of Hüseyin B. Alptekin

Social Sciences Research Journal (SSRJ) e - ISSN: 2147-5237
2023 | Journal article | Writing - original draft
Contributors: Sevgi Aka
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Mythology in Game-Based Works of Gabriel Orozco

Social Sciences Research Journal (SSRJ)
2023 | Journal article | Writing - original draft
Contributors: Sevgi Aka
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"I am not West, I am not East"

Kotti-Shop Art and Project Space, Berlin
2022 | Artistic output or performance | Visualization, Conceptualization
Contributors: Sevgi Aka
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Chance in New Media Installations

2022 | Conference paper | Writing - original draft
Contributors: Sevgi Aka
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The Concept Of Site-Specificity in The Augmented Reality Works of The Artist Mark Skwarek

International Communication and Art Symposium
2022 | Conference paper | Writing - original draft
Contributors: Sevgi Aka
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The Belly of the Whale

2022-10 | Other | Conceptualization, Visualization
Contributors: Sevgi Aka
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Miscommunication: transmission of information through The Letters of Shadow Puppets

Text and Performance Quarterly
2022-10-02 | Journal article
Contributors: Sevgi Aka
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Osvaldo Romberg’s Installation in Portizmir’07 Scale of Melnikov House from Moscow, to Izmir

Yedi
2022-08-26 | Review | Writing - review & editing, Project administration
Part of ISSN: 1307-9840
Contributors: Sevgi Aka
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Absence as Potential In Contemporary Art

PhD Thesis
2020 | Dissertation or Thesis | Writing - original draft
Contributors: Sevgi Aka; Prof. A. Feyzi Korur
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MA Thesis and Exhibition
2014 | Dissertation or Thesis | Writing - original draft, Visualization
Contributors: Sevgi Aka; Selim Birsel
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