| WORKS | EDITIONS | PUBLICATIONS |
Kerem Ozan Bayraktar is an Istanbul-based artist working with site-specific installations, digital imagery, and field research. He examines actual and imaginary environments shaped by congestion, accumulation, and suspension. In his works, fragments of life, overlooked infrastructures, taxonomies, and diagrams come together in states of instability, absurdity, and fragility.
He participated in several art & research programs, including Fellowship for Situated Practice (basis voor actuele kunst, 2022, the Netherlands) and the Berlin Senate Residency Program (Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik, 2021, Germany). His work has recently been featured in the Tokyo Biennale (2023, Japan), Non-/Human Assemblages (2021, South Korea), Sentient Matter (2021, D21, Germany), Timeless Curiosities (2024, Istanbul Modern, Turkey). Bayraktar received his MFA and DFA degrees from Marmara University, Faculty of Fine Arts, Painting department. He is currently a faculty member at Sabancı University. His recent publications include Marmara (2023), Spirits on the Ground (2021) and Dünyaların Haritaları [Maps of Worlds] (2021). Bayraktar is represented by Sanatorium.
SELECTED REVIEWS
2025 | Check Valve: An infrastructural inversion
Öznur Karakaş, unlimited, Jul-Aug Issue 88
2022 | Sugar and heat: red, blue, green, purple, orange
Aslı Seven, border_less, 03.02.2022
2020 | Dreams of dump
Zeynep Sayın, Yer Ruhları, 2021, SAHA, Sanatorium
2020 | A Fictional Investigation on the Existence of Zombies
Yagiz Ozgen, Yer Ruhları, 2021, SAHA, Sanatorium
2019 | Let's Start from the End
Jing Yi Teo, so-far, 03.10.2019
2019 | Bad Encounters: Crisis, death, extinction, and the end of the World as we know it
Gaye Çankaya Eksen, in Rocks and Winds, Germs and Words, 2019 (ed. Kevser Güler), Sanatorium
2019 | Rocks and winds, germs and words
Kevser Güler, in Rocks and Winds, Germs and Words, 2019 (ed. Kevser Güler), Sanatorium
2012 | Mapping and Functionality in Bayraktar's work
Yağız Özgen, Rules (2012), Nesrin Esirtgen Collection, 05.2012
INTERVIEWS
2023 | On Artificial Intelligence
İlker Cihan Biner, NFTIFY, 29.09.2023
2023 | Kerem Ozan Bayraktar
Mercado, No: 6
2022 | A bit of unruly complexity
Misal Adnan, Sanatorium
2019 | On space, time, planets and plants: A conversation with Kerem Ozan Bayrakta
2025 | Check Valve
Sanatorium, Istanbul
2020-25 | Spirits on the Ground
SAHA Studio, Istanbul; Diana, New York
2022-24 | Marmara Board Game & Publication
with Aslı Uludağ, Balıkesir, Istanbul
2019 | Rocks and Winds, Germs and Words
Sanatorium, Istanbul
2019 | Phases of Nix
Bilsart, Istanbul
2018-24 | Sokak Otları
Istanbul
2018 | Chance and Necessity
with Sergen Şehitoğlu, Sanatorium, Istanbul
2015 | et cetera
PGArt, Istanbul
2015 | Minor Perceptions
Şekerbank Açıkekran, Istanbul
2012 | Rules
Nesrin Esirtgen Collection, Istanbul
SELECTED GROUP PROJECTS & EXHIBITIONS
2024 | Critical Shifts
Barın Han, Istanbul
2024 | Timeless Curiosities
Istanbul Modern, Istanbul
2024 | Geometria Situ: Traces and Poetics of Translation
Hothouse, Singapore
2023 | Ghost Gardens
Tokyo Biennale, Tokyo
2022 | Hauntologists
BAK, Utrecht
2022 | A Bit of Unruly Complexity
Sanatorium, Istanbul
2022 | Across Space - Sympathetic Vibration
Changwon Sculpture Biennale, Changwon
2022 | What Water Knows
Pilot, Istanbul
2021 | Hosting Bodies
Sanatorium, Istanbul
2021 | Sentient Matter
D21, Leipzig
2021 | Non-/Human Assemblages
Busan Sea Art Festival, Ilgwang, Busan
2020 | Cadavre Exquis
Galeri Nev, Istanbul
2020 | At the End of the Day
Odunpazarı Modern Museum, Eskisehir
2020-21 | Sandstorm – And Then There Was Dust
DEPO, Istanbul; Galerie im Körnerpark, Berlin
2020 | Regular Insanity
Akbank Sanat, Istanbul
2020 | I Haven't Told My Garden Yet
Monitor, İzmir
2019 | Ubiquitous Surfaces
Open Space, Seager Gallery, London
2019 | flesh and bone
Operation Room, Istanbul
2019 | Istanbul Biennial Digestion Programme – Concrete
Istanbul
2019 | Light Like a Bird, Not Like a Feather
Signs, Istanbul
2019 | Pandora's Black Box
Galata Greek Primary School, Istanbul
2019 | A Horn in The Neck
Apartment Project, Berlin
2019 | The Sound of No-one Listening
Corridor, Amsterdam
2018 | colony
Abud Efendi Konagi, Istanbul; Schwules Museum, Berlin
2018 | Monomit
Galeri Nev, Ankara
2018 | Vanishing Mediator
Müze Evliyagil, Ankara
2017 | Deep, Darkness and Splendor
Galerist, Istanbul
2017 | aRb
Sanatorium, Istanbul
2017 | Landslide
SALT Galata, Istanbul
2016 | Ohne
Mekan68, Vienna
2016 | Habitat
Istanbul Modern, Istanbul
2015 | Backyard
Plato Sanat, Istanbul
2015 | VIVO
Kasa, Istanbul
2015 | Redefining the Space of Everyday Life
Gaia Galeri, Istanbul
2015 | Art Speaks Out, Til It's Done
Icono.tv, Istanbul Modern, Istanbul
2014 | Focus: Turkey
Landskrona Foto, Landskrona, Sweden
2014 | [ ]
PG Art, Istanbul
2013 | Hypologie
Sanatorium, Istanbul
2013 | Please do not disturb!
Istanbul Modern, Istanbul
2012 | Simulation Crisis
Plato Sanat, Istanbul
2009 | Temporary Harassment
Istanbul 2010, Kartal, Küçükçekmece, Atakent, Ümraniye Cultural Centers, Istanbul
2009 | You can't kiss away a murder
Galerist, Istanbul
SELECTED FESTIVALS & FAIRS
2024 | Noise_Media Art
Kadiköy Kent Museum, Istanbul
2023 | Art Dubai
Madinat Jumeirah, Dubai
2023 | Untitled Art Miami
Miami
2022 | Art Brussels
Tour & Taxis, Brussels
2021 | Digital Aura
Open Media Art Festival, The Oil Tank Culture Park, Seoul
2020 | Proyector Video Art Festival
Debris, Sala El Águila, Madrid
2019 | Art Düsseldorf
Areal Bohler, Düsseldorf
AWARDS & HONOURS
2023 | Ghost Gardens
Tokyo Biennale Assoc.; SAHA
2023 | Marmara (publication)
SAHA Publication Fund
2022 | Marmara
Marmara Kültürleri Ağı & CultureCIVIC
2021-22 | Fellowship for Situated Practice
BAK – basis voor actuele kunst
2020 | Saha Studio
SAHA
2020 | Spirits on the Ground (publication)
SAHA; Sanatorium
2019 | Berlin Senate Residency Program
Die neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst (nGbK) & Depo
2016 | Nomination, Prix Pictet
Geneva
2016 | Long list, ING Unseen Talent Award
Amsterdam
2008 | Success Award
Painting and Sculpture Museums Association, Istanbul
2008 | Borders & Orbits 04
Siemens Sanat, Istanbul
2008 | 26. Contemporary Artists
Akbank Sanat, Istanbul
2007 | Borders & Orbits 01
Siemens Sanat, Istanbul
2007 | First Prize in Graduation Project
Marmara University Faculty of Fine Arts, Istanbul
2007 | Runner-Up Award for Academic Excellence
Marmara University Faculty of Fine Arts, Istanbul