GÜÇLÜ ÖZTEKİN

Güçlü Öztekin (b. 1978, Eskişehir) graduated from Mimar Sinan University Faculty of Fine Arts Department of Painting in 2003. His most recent solo exhibitions are I, a New Brave World, Dirimart Pera, Istanbul (2023); What’s On Your Mind River, İstinye Park, Izmir (2022); Topsy Turvy! Selpakla Gorili Bitirdim!, Dirimart, Istanbul (2017); Şe Şe Pa Pa… Sometimes You Need to Cry to Fish, Rampa, Istanbul (2015); Everything’s Tickling Each Other, Krinzinger Projekte, Vienna (2012) and kAPLANKADİLAk – He Was a Nasty Man but He Washed His Hands Obsessively, Rampa, Istanbul (2010). Among the group exhibitions and biennials in which the artist participated are İstikrarlı Hayaller, Nilüfer Municipality, Bursa (2023); Would you still love me if I painted parrots all day?, Dirimart, Istanbul (2022); Sky is Attached / Say Sound, We Meet (with Sinan Logie), Barın Han, Istanbul (2021); All Else Is Far, Dirimart, Istanbul (2021); Dirimart Presents VII: Still Life, Dirimart, Istanbul (2020); WORLBMON (with Güneş Terkol), 16th Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul (2019); Memory and Continuity: A Selection from Huma Kabakcı Collection, Pera Museum, Istanbul (2016) and Jahresgaben 2008, Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster (2008). 

Öztekin also participated and performed in various group exhibitions including music, performance and personal productions with these two groups as a member of HA ZA VU ZU and GuGuOu artist groups. Among these exhibitions are Fez Gez, Bilsart, Istanbul (2022); For Whom Is It Too Late Today? – Between Stamp and Mars, Frac des Pays de la Loire, Carquefou (2009); 10th Baltic Triennial of International Art, Vilnius (2009); 10th Lyon Biennial, Lyon (2009); Kaserne, Basel (2008); Mercy, Liverpool (2008); Rotterdamse Schouwburg (2008); Bovisa Triennial, Milan (2008); Lokaal01, Antwerp (2008) and the 10th Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul (2007). Öztekin lives and works in Istanbul.