Bio
ipek burçak is an artist, working across a variety of media, including video, installation, sculpture, new media, performance, and artists’ books. Her process often results in world-building while exploring the entanglements between human and non-human beings, social space, anti-ableist approaches, and narratives hidden under technologies. In her installations, she searches for gritty aesthetics beyond the flat and clean visual language. ipek burçak is the co-founder of the publishing collective Well Gedacht Publishing, where she co-produces artists’ publications in various forms in collaboration with other diasporic artists. She lives in Berlin.
Shows, Performances, Workshops
- Going Places, ACUD Galerie, Berlin, 2022
- Well Gedacht Publishing at The Shelf Festival for Artistic Publishing, Sprengel Museum Hannover, 2022
- Tender Reels, Screening, Filmrauschpalast Berlin, 2022
- Tender Hooks, Goldrausch 22, Kommunale Galerie Berlin, 2022
- Variability of Distance, Vierte Welt, transmediale Vorspiel, Berlin DE, 2022
- Pop-up Exhibition, Somad NYC, US, 2021
- Well Gedacht Publishing, Vancouver Art Book Fair (online), 2021
- Fluctoplasma Festival Hamburg, DE, 2021
- ORTSTERMIN, Berlin, DE, 2021
- Virtuality and Access, lecture performance, online lab, Re:coding Algorithmic Cultures of the Pandemic, 2021
- Picnic Art Festival, Shanghai, CN, 2021
- Variability of Distance, online exhibition, 2021
- Well Gedacht Publishing, HYPERTEXT - Boundartbookfair in collaboration with Open Eye Gallery, Manchester UK and WWW, 2020
- Well Gedacht Publishing Sound Series, rootradio.live, Istanbul, 2020-
- Hello It’s Cura Han Hati, video installation, Arts of the Working Class, Berlin Art Week, Berlin DE 2020
- Taking a walk on a big sheet of speculated forms: round, intertwined, disintegrated, leaking, Twitch-Stream-Performance, An Un_timely Lab, r-calc.net/beingturnedoff 2020
- Self Publishing from Prague to Vienna, exhibition, quatroprint Vienna AT, 2020
- Up above was fog, down below was a cloud of dust - 2 Readings and 1 Listening, Depo, Istanbul TR, 2020
- A set of speculative Interventions into Virtual Space, workshop with the group Machine Perception, Conference ‘Ethics of Curating’ Uni Hildesheim DE
- A Horn In the Neck, co-curation, exhibition, Apartment Project, Berlin DE, 2019
- A set of speculative Interventions into Virtual Space, workshop with the group Machine Perception, JLU, Giessen DE, 2019
- Well Gedacht Publishing, Vienna Art Book Fair AT, 2019
- Well Gedacht Publishing, Fanzineist Artbook Fair, Vienna AT, 2019
- Autistic Turn Reading & Listening Performance, Shelter Festival, Helsinki FI, 2019
- Autistic Turn Reading & Listening Performance, Kosminen, Helsinki FI, 2019
- Autistic Turn Reading & Listening Performance and CD Launch, Mz. Baltazar’s Lab, Vienna AT, 2019
- Travers, Glyptotek Copenhagen DK, 2018
- EXAMEN 18, documenta Halle Kassel DE, 2018
- Secure Shell, Installation, supported by EUCIDA, Pifcamp 2018, Trenta SI, 2018
- Autistic Turn, Solo Exhibition, Book Release & Sound Performance with Andara Shastika, Die Lage Kassel DE, 2018
- Introverted Devices, Peer to Peer, Curated Collection of Archives, An Attempt for a decentralized Web, WWWW, 2018
- Don’t Show Again, exhibition, Reaktor Vienna AT, 2018
- ISHYGDDT, KMMN, documenta 14 side project, Kassel DE 2018
- Internet Poem, Reading & Media Performance, SHA2017 Hacker Conference, Zeewolde NL, 2017
- A live ambisonic audioplay, Audio Installation & Performance with Luzie Friederike Müller, SS6 Vienna AT, 2017
- Two Person Show, Reading & Media Performance, with Charlotte Hermann, Zentrale, Vienna AT, 2017
- Rundgang Annual Exhibition, PCAP Akbild Vienna AT, 2017
- Salon D’echec, Performance with Jan Deck, Katrin Hylla and Tümay Kılınçel, Freitagsküche, Frankfurt DE, 2016
- Sie_In_Progress, 50 years of Niki de Saint Phalle’s Nana, Staatstheater Kassel DE, 2016
- Freie Lanze, Solo Exhibition, Stellwerk, Kassel DE, 2016
- May Day, Friday Exit Vienna AT, 2016
Grants and Residencies
- Resarch grant for operators of project spaces and initiatives (for Well Gedacht Publishing), Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Europe, 2022
- Artist Residency, An Algoliterary Publishing House, Anaïs Berck, Brussels, BE, 2022
- Stiftung Kunstfonds Neustart Kultur Grant, 2022
- Goldrausch Künstlerinnenprojekt, Berlin DE, 2022
- Artist Residency Fellowship, Andreas Zuest Library, St. Anton, CH, 2021
- INITIAL stipend, Akademie der Künste, 2021
- Hessische Kulturstiftung (Cultural Foundation of Hesse) project funding, 2020
- European Connection in Digital Art (EUCIDA) Travel Grant, 2018
- DAAD graduation project funding, 2018
- The School of Arts Kassel project funding, 2017
- Rosa Luxemburg Foundation study grant, 2014-2019
Publications
- Contribution for Crip Magazine, Istanbul Biennial, 2022
- Becoming Things, catalogue as part of Goldrausch Künstlerinnenprojekt, 2022
- Schnelltest, 2022
- Locomotion Magazine, Well Gedacht Publishing, 2021
- Cat Autonomy Tools, 2021
- Contribution for Landscapes, Symbioses, Technoid Natures Href-Zine 2020
- The Autistic Turn, artist book, RISO print, 2018
- The Autistic Turn postcards set, tornaistanbul, Istanbul TR 2018
Research, External Projects
- advisor in the EU funded project Aşina - supporting artists' books from Turkey, 2021-2022
- artistic associate in the research project Re:coding Algorithmic Culture, University of Kassel, 2019-2021
- part of the collective Cura Han Hati, 2020-
- co-founder, editor and publisher at Well Gedacht Publishing, 2019-
Education
- (Meisterschülerin) Post Gradual Class of Pauline Curnier Jardin and Johanna Schaffer, The School of Arts Kassel 2018-2019
- Post Conceptual Art Practice (PCAP) Class, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, 2016-2017
- Bachelor and Master of Arts, The School of Arts Kassel, 2018
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