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Carouge, Geneva_ Bruckner Foundation Artist Residency Program

Burçak Bingöl was an artist-in-residence at Fondation Bruckner in Carouge, in the Canton of Geneva, Switzerland, during April and May. She was awarded the residency through her work B, Built a Garden, which was presented at Fondazione Officine Saffi in Milan in 2024.

During the residency, Bingöl focused on her ongoing research initiated in 2017, into the journeys of cobalt, the element that gives ceramics their blue color, across geographies and cultures. She also wrote a new series of poems for a video work on the same subject, which she will produce this summer at Koç University, combining the texts with porcelain surfaces.

Photo: Lisa Frisco

Bruckner Foundation

Fondazione Officine Saffi Award

Hong Kong_ Art Basel Hong Kong 2026

Burçak Bingöl participated in Art Basel Hong Kong with gdm, a Hong Kong and Taiwan-based gallery which she recently began collaborating with. She was extensively represented at the fair with installations and other works from Minor Vibrations on Earth (2022), first presented at Tate St Ives. The selection of the works subsequently found homes in collections across Asia.

Photo: Courtesy of gdm

gdm - Burçak Bingöl

Ankara_ Group exhibition: The Sun Never Saw a Shadow

A Brick Wants to Be Something I -II were a part of the group exhibition The Sun Never Saw a Shadow, held in Ankara. Curated by Oğuz Karakütük and Umut Sur, the exhibition took place simultaneously at Ka: Space for Visual Culture and Artistic Thinking and Gallery Siyah Beyaz.

(left to right) Installation view from The Sun Never Saw a Shadow, Ka: Space for Visual Culture and Artistic Thinking and Galeri Siyah Beyaz, Ankara, 2026

Photo: courtesy of Ka & Gallery Siyah Beyaz

Ka: Space for Visual Culture and Artistic Thinking

Gallery Siyah Beyaz

Istanbul_ Art Show: Galleries Meeting

A duo presentation by Burçak Bingöl and Nermin Er was exhibited at the booth of Galeri Nev Istanbul during the second edition of Art Show: Galleries Meeting. The exhibition featured Bingöl’s works Loaded I (2017), Debris (2018), Excerpt II (2018), Land of Oblivion I (2024), and Broken Quad (2025).

Photo: Courtesy of Galeri Nev İstanbul

Ankara_ Litho Wall #2

Organized in collaboration with Dou Print Studio and Erimtan Archeology and Arts Museum, the second edition of Litho Wall includes Burçak Bingöl’s lithography work The Dream of a Wandering Vessel, produced at Dou Print Studio in 2021. The exhibition opens to visitors on June 20 and will be on view at the Museum Café of the Erimtan Museum.

Litho Wall - Erimtan Archeology and Arts Museum

Istanbul_ Publication: Olimpos Exhibition, Naturemorte

Burçak Bingöl’s essay Roots, Lumps & Knots appears in the publication accompanying Naturemorte, the fourth edition of Taner Ceylan’s special project titled Olimpos Exhibitions. In her essay, Bingöl takes Feyhaman Duran’s painting Hat Levhalı Natürmort (Still Life with Calligraphy Panel) as her starting point to examine the still-life tradition through the lenses of the city, tradition, and cultural heritage.

Olimpos Exhibitions

Online conversation with Fatoş Üstek: Trusting the Process

As part of Akbank Sanat’s Curating Contemporary Art Seminar Program, Burçak Bingöl and Fatoş Üstek took part in an online conversation titled Trusting the Process. Moderated by Billur Tansel, the discussion focused on the preparation and production process behind Bingöl’s participation in Frieze Sculpture 2025, which was curated by Fatoş Üstek.

Akbank Sanat - Trusting the Process

Istanbul_ Conversation with Esra Ece Kuleci:

Books That Spark Thinking on Production: Five Cities

Burçak Bingöl was a guest speaker at a talk organized by Akbank Sanat, titled Books That Spark Thinking on Production: Five Cities. Held at Frankeştayn Bookstore last week, the conversation programmed and moderated by Esra Ece Kuleci explored the influence of Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar’s Five Cities on Bingöl’s artistic practice.

Akbank Sanat - Books That Spark Thinking on Production: Five Cities

Upcoming projects

This summer, Burçak Bingöl will continue her research and production as part of the KuAir Artist Residency Program, an invitational residency organized by Koç University. Collaborating with the KARMA Mixed Reality Lab, Bingöl will develop new works centered on a 16th-century İznik tile panel located in the Topkapı Palace.

Alongside an upcoming collaboration with the Westminster City of Sculpture program, her work will be exhibited in several group exhibitions across Istanbul, Paris, Venice, Seoul, and Shanghai in the coming season.