Bio
Ipek Burçak is an artist, born in Istanbul and based in Berlin. Her working modes vary from video, text, sound, installation, performance to publication, while rejecting gaining expertise on one medium. In her works she forms speculative approaches to technologies and their impasses, non-human potentials in subverting humanly narratives, and neurodiversity. She is 1/2 of the publishing collective Well Gedacht Publishing, where she co-produces artists’ publications in various forms in collaboration with fellow diasporic artists living in Europe.
Shows, Performances, Workshops
- 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
- 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
- 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 of the collective 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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