Exhibition opening of Borga Kantürk: "In the deathcar, we are alive"*

24. 9. 2025 – 16. 11. 2025

Curators: Anabel Černohorski, Ezgi Ceren Kayırıcı

The exhibition of Turkish artist and university lecturer Borga Kantürk weaves together the personal with broader social and political realities through drawings, photographs, video, and collages. Rooted in a distinctly documentary, diaristic, and archival practice, Kantürk chronicles his daily life and the events that shape it – from the academic environment and artist residencies to natural disasters, protests, and football as a site of solidarity and resistance. His works often integrate clippings from print media alongside a wide range of art-historical, literary, and cinematic references.

Borga Kantürk (1978, Izmir, Turkey) is an artist, curator, and lecturer. He studied Painting at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Dokuz Eylül University, where he also completed his M.A. and Proficiency in Art. He currently works as an Assistant Professor in the Painting Department at the same university.
Kantürk is the founder of KUTU Portable Art Gallery (2002) and co-founder of K2 Art Center (2004–2007), 6x6x6 Izmir Collective (2017), and KARANTİNA Art Space (2018). His work includes numerous solo and group exhibitions in Turkey and internationally (France, Germany, Italy, Finland and Slovenia). He lives and works in Izmir.

More about the artist:

Borga Kantürk, ŠKUC Gallery, Ljubljana 2015

Video:

Borga Kantürk | 2nd Term Artist Videos

 

Opening of the exhibition: Wednesday, 24 September 2025 at 18:00.

 

*_{From the song In the Deathcar (Goran Bregović & Iggy Pop, Arizona Dream soundtrack, 1993)}