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Gözde İlkin was born in Kütahya in 1981 and lived in various regions of Turkey until her university years. She studied painting in the Faculty of Fine Arts at Mimar Sinan University. From 2005 to 2006, she attended European Union Education and Youth Programs: Leonardo da Vinci Program at the RAM and Ram Foundation in Rotterdam. She completed her master’s degree at Marmara University in 2008. İlkin creates her work on fabric, canvas, paper, and other objects. She embroiders her stories, either by hand or machine, on these surfaces with black and white or colored thread. Through interventions in the texture on which she works, İlkin completes her work with strings left un-sewn or a single layer of acrylic paint. She sometimes borders these body-geographies with stitches on the texture of the embroidery fabric. She has had one solo exhibition and participated in many group exhibitions in Turkey and abroad, including Stockholm and Rotterdam. Currently, İlkin lives and continues her works in Istanbul.
Solo Exhibition:
2004, "Body on the Body" Wearable Art, Karşı Art Gallery, Istanbul
Group Exhibitions:
2004, "Strategies No.1 Drawing & Painting" (Curator: Marcus Graf), Siemens Art, Istanbul
2005, "Museum Nacht", Roodkapje, Rotterdam
2006, "Everything Will Be Good" /Selda Asal /Apartment Project, Istanbul
2006, Contemporary Istanbul Art fair, KargART, Lütfi Kırdar, Istanbul
2006, "Reserved" Pist, Istanbul
2007, "SOBE!" (Curator: Leyla Gediz), Bilsar Building, Istanbul
2007, "6th Korean- Turkish Exchange Exhibition" (Curators: Derya Yucel, Park Dong Jin), IMSG, Istanbul
2007, "Kargaşa 7" KargART , Istanbul
2007, "Open Playground" (Curator: Marcus Graf), Siemens Art, Istanbul
2008, "7th Turkish Korean Contemporary Art Exchange Exhibition" (Curators: Dreya Yucel), Incheon Culture & Art Center, Korea
2008, Portable art-I: Memorycity, (curator: Derya Yucel), Kartal-Umraniye, Istanbul
2008, Zigzag: Independent Drawing Gig 4, (organized by Alina ViolaGrumiller, Inci Furni,Koray Kantarcioglu), Hafriyat Karaköy, Istanbul
2008, "Accumulated: Put aside, left aside" (curators: Isın Onol, Aslı Çetinkaya), 5533, IMC Istanbul
2008, Connect the dots 1.5 / Koray Kantarcıoglu/, Fargfabriken, Stockholm
2008, Performance Time ′08, /Marcus Graf/ performance: “Stitch up and go” Yasemin Nur Toksoy-Gozde ,Ilkin, Galata Perform, Istanbul
2009, "Second Encounter", Artsumer Gallery, Istanbul
2009, "Best Case Scenario" (organized by Manzara Perspectives, Anna Heidenhain and Kristina Kramer), Kuledibi, Istanbul
2009, "Seriously Ironic", Positions in Turkish Contemporary Art Scene exposition de groupeirony, (Co-Curators: Dolores Denaro, Isin Önol), Centre Pasquart / Biel, Switzerland
2009, "Tatbikat", Hafriyat Karaköy, Istanbul
2009, "The Real Challenge is Elsewhere" (Curators: Mürteza Fidan, Melih Görgün), Siemens Art, Istanbul
2012, "Journeys, Drambulations dans la Turquie contemporaine", Espace Culturel Louis Vuitton, Paris
Projects:
2006, "Project of Topkapi" /A German - Turkish cultural exchange project , ′Place′ by Suzanne Katherina Willand-Gozde Ilkin, Spedition, Bremen
2009, Experimental Workshop Project "Reciprocal Visit" by Apartment Project: Selda Asal, (Curator: Serra Ozhan), Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Iran
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