DENİZ AYAZ
Deniz is an illustrator / graphic designer based in Brooklyn, NY. She loves colors, fluidity in art, organic shapes, geometric patterns as well as contemporary art, simple & clever designs and hand typography. After graduating from Parsons with a BFA in Illustration, she worked with several artists and designers such as Dana Sherwood, Mark Pernice and...
ZEYNEP SOLAKOĞLU
Zeynep is 26 living and working in Istanbul. Her work explores what is inside, other than what is seen by the eye. Her characters are always focused on the inner value of things, the inner world. She tells us that their wild and careless approach comes from embracing their full nature and everything that comes with...
ZEYNEP UYGAN
Zeynep is 27 from İzmir. As cliché as it sounds, she has been drawing since her childhood, which later became one of the reasons why her family supported her decision to study Art at school and then college. In 2010 she graduated from Dokuz Eylül University with a degree in Fine Art and since then...
STEPHANIE TRIAU : ARTAPOT
Banané interviews Istanbul based Artapot founder, Stephanie Triau. Artapot is a collective of artists based in Paris: B: Hello Stephanie, can you tell us a bit about your background and how you ended up in Istanbul? S: Hello! That is a long story!I have always loved arts, this mostly came from spending hours in museums and...
BERIL ATEŞ
Beril’s from Ankara, and is deeply in love with this city. She has always drawn, visited galleries, and coloured objects since she was a child, and for every illustration or photograph she has created, she has always taken inspiration from people. She loves people but has in time noticed that people can be mean beyond...
BEGÜM ALPTEKİN
Begüm Alptekin has been doing small collages and drawings for the past 3-4 years. She was born in 1989 in Istanbul and spent her childhood years in Kuzguncuk. Taking clippings from her grandmother’s Ses magazines and piecing them together with her grandfather’s Yeşilçam flyers was one of her favourite activities at a young age. Begüm...
EGE KANAR
Born in 1981, Ege studied “Visual Arts and Communication Design” at Sabancı University, following which he completed an M.A.degree on “Photography” at the Academy Of Performing Arts, Prague (FAMU). He currently resides in Istanbul focusing on his personal projects as well as recording with his band Change Of Plans. I Know Where I Don’t Know...
BAL İÇME
Bal Içme is primarily interested in visual arts, and currently lives in Eskişehir where she is continuing her studies. One cold winter’s day she started Lula Handmade, for which she makes tote bags, ceramics for the kitchen, polymer and ceramic broaches and other bits and pieces which are yet to be released. These can currently...
BORA AKINCITÜRK
Hello Bora! Can you quickly describe yourself in a few words? I’m an artist from Istanbul living in London. I’m 28. Could you tell us a little bit about your upcoming show? It’s my first solo show. Its about waking up hungry, light, eating, happiness, strange rooms, loneliness, breathing, going away and coming back, damaged...
REHAN MİSKCİ
Rehan graduated from the Austrian High School in 2005, and completed her degree in Interior Design from the Istanbul Technical University in 2009. From a young age she’s always been interested in family photographs. Later supported by her studies, she became more familiar with using visuals and started writing scenarios for those photographs, putting them...
C. M. KÖSEMEN
INTERVIEW BY : BANANÉ Could you please descirbe yourself in a short paragraph? I am C. M. Kosemen, and I’m 26. I worked and studied overseas for a long time, and now I’m back in Istanbul, trying to see how I can fit in to the life in the City. I was fortunate to have...
SEZGİ KUTTAŞ
Sezgi puts together found objects, turning them into wonderfully layered collages. Her favourite material to use during this process is old book pages. Recently she has also been working on a new conceptual photography project composed of lomography photos. - Sezgi buldukları parçaları birleştiriyor, müthiş katmanlı kolajlara çeviriyor. En sevdiği malzemelerden biri eski kitap sayfaları. ...
