Curriculum vitae
 
Academic





Kerem Ozan Bayraktar examines material transformations, accumulations, and interactions between natural and artificial forms through mixed media installations, digital techniques, and field research. 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 deparment. 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 lives in Istanbul and is represented by Sanatorium.


Selected Reviews & Essays  

2022 Sugar and heat: red, blue, green, purple, orange  
Aslı Seven,border_less, 03.02.2022

2020 Dreams of dump  [Çöplük Rüyaları]
Zeynep Sayın, Yer Ruhları, 2021, SAHA, Sanatorium

2020 A Fictional Investigation on the Existence of Zombies  
Yagiz Ozgen, Yer Ruhları, 2021, SAHA, Sanatorium

2020 Üreticiler, Ayırt Ediciler ve Arada Kalanlar
Ulya Soley, Güncel • SAYI 2 6, Galeri Nev, İstanbul 

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
[Kötü Karşılaşmalar: Kriz, ölüm, soytükenmesi ve bildiğimiz Dünya’nın sonu]
Gaye Çankaya Eksen, Rocks and Winds, Germs and Words (ed.Kevser Güler), Sanatorium, 09.2019

2019 Rocks and winds, germs and words
Kevser Güler, Rocks and Winds, Germs and Words (ed.Kevser Güler), Sanatorium, 09.2019

2012 Mapping and Functionality in Bayraktar’s work
Yağız Özgen, Rules (2012), Nesrin Esirtgen Collection, 05.2012

Selected Interviews

2023 On Artificial Intelligence [Yapay Zeka Üzerine]
İlker Cihan Biner, NFTIFY, 29.09.2023
 
2023 Kerem Ozan Bayraktar
Mercado, Sayı: 6

2022 A bit of unruly complexity
Misal Adnan, Sanatorium

2022 Akışkan Ekolojiler: Kerem Ozan Bayraktar’la Strands üzerine
Ezgi Yurteri, Argonotlar, 11.01.2022

2019 On space, time, planets and plants: A conversation with Kerem Ozan Bayraktar, Ulya Soley
Ulya Soley,border_less, 07.02.2019

Selected Talks in Turkish

2023 Piksel. | O'art Talks #2 - Sanat ve Eleştirel İçerik [Art and Critical Content]
with Süreyya Evren, TAK, Istanbul

2021 Çağdaş Sanat Buluşmaları: Gündelik Yaşam Estetiği [Aesthetics of the everyday]
moderatör: Kültigin Kağan Akbulut
26.04.2021, Ataşehir Kültür Sanat, çevrimiçi

2021 Kerem Ozan Bayraktar ile Söyleşi
program: Çelenk Bafra. Hariçten Sanat, Açık Radyo

2021 Yapıttan Önce Sonra Sanat [Art after and before the artwork]
moderatör: Süreyya Evren
24.03.2021, Küçükçekmece Dijital Festival, çevrimiçi

2021 Etüt: Güncel Sanata Doğru İlk Adımlar: Kavramsal Sanat [An introduction to conceptual art ]
programlama: Murat Alat
03.03.2021, Nilüfer Sanat, çevrimiçi

2021 Circular Sanat Sohbetleri: Kayalar ve Rüzgarlar, Mikroplar ve Kelimeler [Rocks and Winds, Germs and Words]
moderatör: Veli Mert
19.05.2021, D5 Sanat Ortamı, çevrimiçi

2020 Symbiosis: Ortak Yaşam Üzerine Araştırmalar / Dağıtık Yaşam [ Symbiosis: Research on Symbiosis / Distributed Life]
programlama: Murat Alat
16.05.2020, İstanbul Özel Saint-Joseph Fransız Lisesi, çevrimiçi

2020 Sokak Otları ve Onların Kent Ekolojisindeki Yeri  [Urban weeds and their place in urban ecology]
program: Benan Kapucu, Botanitopya
23.02.2020, Açık Radyo

2019 Pandemi Döneminde ”Kayalar ve Rüzgarlar, Mikroplar ve Kelimeler” Sergisini Yeniden Düşünmek
[Rethinking "Rocks and Winds, Germs and Words" Exhibition During the Pandemic ]
Ulya Soley ile söyleşi
02.05.2019, Sanatorium

2019 Bilsart Sanat Konuşmaları: Kerem Ozan Bayraktar & Ulya Soley
Ulya Soley ile Nix’in Evreleri üzerine söyleşi [Talk with Ulya Soley on Phases of Nix]
31.01.2019, Bilsart, Istanbul

2019 Kerem Ozan Bayraktar ile Sokak Otları [Urban weeds]
program: Melis Oğuz, Mekan ve İnsan
22.04.2019, medyascope.tv

2019 Sokak Otları   [Urban weeds]
program: Nurhan Keleer, Biofilia
07.02.2019, Açık Radyo

2019 Sokak Otları  
21.03.2019, İstanbul Üniversitesi Cerrahpaşa Orman Fakültesi / Diker Atölye

2019 Medyum-sonrası Çağda Fotoğraf [ Photography After Post-medium]
moderatör: Tevfik Çağrı Dural
19.01.2019, Ortaformat, SALT Galata