Gözde Türkkan

Pay Here, photography, 60 x 120 cm, 5 Ed + 1 AP, 2010

GÖZDE TÜRKKAN, 1984

Gözde Türkkan alias mimiko's photography works focuses on gender politics, identities and roles through a subjective documentary approach. After graduating from İstanbul Bilgi University, Faculty of Communications, Department of Photography and Video in 2008, Türkkan worked as a photography course instructor in the Visual Communication Design Department of the same university. She continued her education in University of the Arts London, Central Saint Martins, College of Art and Design (London, UK), where she received her MA degree in 2010. The artist participated in !f İstanbul Independent Film Festival (2007) and group shows at Empire Project (2011),  Vol de Nuits (2011) and x-ist (2010)

\\Education

• 2009/2010- University of the Arts London, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, MA Fine Art degree
• 2004/2008- Istanbul Bilgi University Faculty of Communication Photography & Video Department, BA degree
• 2002/2003- Pierre et Marie Curie University Paris, Physical Science Department
• 1999/2002- Lycée Français Pierre Loti d’Istanbul, Baccalauréat diploma

 

\\Selected Exhibitions

• Istanbul Contemporary'11, Nov, 2011
• Looking Back At You, Operation Room, May 2011
• Vienna Art Fair 2011, Vienna, Austria, April 2011
• Art HK'11, Hong Kong, May 2011
• Vol de Nuits, Marseille/FR, May 2011
• Contemporary Istanbul 10, Istanbul/TR, Nov 2010
• Intersection IV Gözde Türkkan / Sinem Dişli Exhibition, Gallery x-ist, Istanbul/TR, Oct 2010
• x-plore Vol. I, Gallery x-ist, Istanbul/TR, Sep 2010
• Central Saint Martins MA Fine Art Degree Show, London/UK, Aug 2010
• 6th Ufat Photography Festival, Bursa/TR, April 2009
• “Untitled” Exhibition, santralistanbul, Istanbul/TR, Dec 2008
• Tershane “Taze Beyinlere Ihtiyacimiz Var” Exhibition, Istanbul/TR, Oct 2008
• Istanbul Bilgi University Photography & Video Dept. “From Multigrade to Multitouch” Exhibition, Photokina Fair, Cologne/GER, Sep 2008
• Istanbul Bilgi University VCD and POV Depts. Annual Students’ Works Exhibition, Istanbul/TR, 2005-2008
• !f Istanbul Independent Film Festival, Istanbul/TR, 2007

 

 

Website: http://mimiko.net

 

PRESS CLIPS

Fotoritim, December 2011
An interview with Gözde Türkkan: Two Projects (turkish) (PDF)

Cumhuriyet Pazar, June 2011
Camera is my sex toy (turkish) (PDF)

Marie Claire, February 2011
Magic pole (turkish) (PDF)

Newsweek Türkiye, November 2010
It is not striptease, it is a sport (turkish) (PDF)