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Başak Kaptan was born in Izmir in 1978. She graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts at Bilkent University and completed her master’s degree in Graphic Design at her alma mater. She received a scholarship from DAAD to study at Münster Kunst Akademie in 2003. She received post-diplome (artist in residency program) bourse from Ecole National des Beaux Arts de Lyon. Kaptan has participated in many national and international exhibitions such as Kunstverein Tiergarten Berlin (2006) and "Rendezvous" La jeune création contemporaine - Temps 3 by MOCA-Lyon (2005). She co-ordinated the art project "69001, Anti-chambre" working together with three other artists for the "Young Art Festival" organized by National Contemporary Art Centre in Moscow.
Kaptan has also participated in many video screening programs and film festivals including “Emerge and See” Kurz Film Nacht in Berlin, “Festival International Cinéma Nouvelle Génération, 4e édition” in Lyon, Ausburg Film Festival, PASO Student Film Festival at Goethe Institute in Ankara, "Nomad" video screening programs, which was curated by Basak Senova in New Delhi, Cec & CaC Indian Contemporary Art Centre at Electronic Art Academy, and Conscious in Coma art project initiated by Nomad in collaboration with Goethe Institute in Istanbul.
She works with various materials with an interdisciplinary approach. She follows the recent debates on collective and personal memory and its relations to the public and private space. Mostly her works deal with the childhood memories, how they are constructed by the language, myths, signs and images. Currently, Kaptan serves in the Cinema Department at Beykent University in Istanbul.
Reference: winterakademie-berlin.de, borusancontemporary.com, manzara-perspectives.com, beykent.edu.tr
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