Hakan Akçura

 
Style of Art : Artist / painter, poet, video maker, performer, and designer
Branch of Art : Painting, video art, digital art work
Art Profile :

Hakan Akçura was born in 1962 in Turkey. In 2005, he settled in Stockholm where he currently lives. Since 1991, he has been producing art works in diverse areas such as poetry, painting, performance and video. In 1995, he attended the 4th Istanbul Biennial. He has had four solo exhibitions in Istanbul and Stockholm and participated in many group exhibitions. In 2008, Akçura published “Open Flux,” an artist’s manifesto.

Selected exhibitions, activities:
2013, Artist presentation: "Being in Sweden, being an immigrant, being an artist", Adaevi, Museum of the Princes′ Islands, Istanbul
2013, "Yersiz: Kader Birliği," Mardin, Kızıltepe
2013, “Ja jag vill leva jag vill dö,” Tegen 2, Stockholm
2013, "What luck! The sky embraces us!" /  Photography Exhibition, Ideas and Innovation Fair, Stockholm
2013, "Milat" Exhibition for Hrant, Getronagan High School alumni association, Istanbul
2012, Migration Connections Project 2012 Exhibition, Museum of the Princes′ Islands, Istanbul, Screening on Edinburgh Middle Eastern Film Festival, Filmhouse, Edinburgh
2012, Artist Talking and Screening, Agent Ria, Still Gallery, Edinburgh
2011, Phuket: Two sides of the islands / Single-Channel Video, 45:00
2011, Pax rhetorica / Single-Channel Video, 00:52
2011, Kurdish lesson 3 / Single-Channel Video, 00:58
2010, Kurdish lesson 2 / Single-Channel Video, 00:08
2010, Kurdish lesson 1 / Single-Channel Video, 00:13
2010, Thistles of Sazak / Single-Channel Video, 42:00
2008, It is enough that the truth comes out / Single-Channel Video, 03:31:00
2008, “Look, what beautiful seashells!” / Single-Channel Video, 13:00
2008, A discussion about Swedish culture and unemployment in the course vocational Swedish with practice / Single-Channel Video, 38:00

Reference: hakanakcura.com, open-flux.blogspot.com.tr, goethe.de

Web Site : www.hakanakcura.com
City : Istanbul / Stockholm
Country : Turkey / Sweden
Preferred Lang. : Turkish / English
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