CAN AKGÜMÜŞ

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Can Akgümüş (1987-Ankara) uses photography as a material in his art production as an indication of the cycle created by recording the visible reality and its reproduction over its relations to memory, history, and society. He focuses on image production as he explores the limits of photography by applying various techniques such as collage, exposure, and scanning. While he produces his artwork through his distant and interpretive observations of memory, remembering and forgetting practices, the natural cycle of life, and its effects on individuals, he also seeks new relations between his own memory and collective memory. His first solo exhibition, “Swallowed,” opened in 2016, at Artnivo Project Space in İstanbul. His second solo exhibition, “Terminal,” opened in 2021, Kurşunlu Han in İstanbul, and then in 2022, the exhibition moved to Ankara, KA's exhibition space. Akgümüş opened his third solo exhibition, “Great Dream,” at KAIROS Gallery Istanbul in 2022, with the support of the Culture Civic Artist Production Fund. In early 2024, a duet exhibition with Ümmühan Yörük titled “Silhouettes of Time: The Transient Grace of Vanishing Keepsakes” was held at Barın Han, Istanbul.

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Some of his selected exhibitions and projects are: "Young/Fresh/Different IV” Galeri Zilberman, İstanbul (2013), 14. İstanbul Biennial Parallel Event "40 meters, 4 Walls, 8 Cubes" Zorlu İstanbul (2015), 7. İstanbul Pride Week "Who Would Have Thought" İstanbul (2016), 15. İstanbul Biennial Neighbour Event "Home" Evliyagil Museum, Ankara (2017), ODTÜSanat19 "A New World", Ankara (2018), "Icons of Thinking: Images and Texts'' Evliyagil Museum, Ankara (2018), Nevnesil “Monomyth,” Galeri Nev, Ankara (2018), “Venus in Furs,” Martch Art Project, İstanbul (2019), “Crystal Chateau,” Evliyagil Museum, Ankara (2020), “COLLIDE ‘22: An International Encounter Between Art Professionals & Contemporary Artists”, Collaboration With Kulturakademie Tarabya İstanbul, Goethe Institut Ankara and Künstlerhaus Bethanien Berlin (2022), “Reimage: Morning After Dark” KAIROS Gallery, İstanbul (2022), CI BLOOM Contemporary İstanbul (2023), "Perdu et retrouvé", Institut Français, İzmir (2023), 18th Contemporary İstanbul, KAIROS Gallery, İstanbul (2023), 10th Photo London, London, (2025). He lives and works in both Ankara and İstanbul.