Fatmagul Karadeniz

BIOGRAPHY / ISTANBUL, 1963

Fatmagül Karadeniz graduated from Bosphorus University, Tourism and Hospitality Management Department in 1986. She was engaged with design works at Kasım Koçak Workshop in 1990, and with painting at Orhan Taylan Workshop between years 2000-2002. As from 2005 onwards, she started to work with Çağla Cabaoğlu Gallery.

The passion for art of Karadeniz commences with collecting. By the time progress, she was leaded her to her own drawings. Her initially emerging narrative starting with the figure is later transformed to the abstract. The artist shapes her technique according to her creation. In parallel to the proliferation of the patterns of expression, she is not limited solely to the canvas. Installation becomes a form of expression sought recourse in order to expand the boundaries of means for narration and creation.

Karadeniz assumes her source of inspiration from the trips made to the distant tribes and isolated cultures in the East and the West alike. Every experience is transformed into her music and is enlivened in her works upon transfiguration. Visual layers forming the town of Istanbul for a period of time more than two thousand years, play an essential role in the early paintings of the artist. At the aforesaid period, in the background of abstract compositions, appear queens and hierarchical characters reminding Byzantium symbols. She refers to the concepts of ‘time’ and ‘existence’ in her works. For human beings, these two concepts are memories remembered as feelings and experiences, whereas for towns they are remnants from past civilizations. Our personal memories resuming our past in this world and remnants left behind in the towns are transformed into layers of color shades and paint in the works of the artist. Her sensitivities are converted into sources nourishing her works. Karadeniz oversees not only cultures and cultural strata, but sorrows of our time as well. Her recent figurative aquarelle exhibition titled “Mesopotamian Women” is a product of such an oversight. Women are suffering in the Mesopotamian region nestling Iraq, Turkey, Syria and Iran. These women have no homes, beds and identities. Karadeniz introduces and presents us in her works the hard living conditions of the women of those regions from a different perspective.

2016
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mixed media
20 x 30 cm
2016

2010
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oil on canvas
180 x 120 cm
2010

2008
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oil on canvas
100 x 140 cm
2008

2008
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oil on canvas
160 x 143 cm
2008

2008
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oil, mixed media on canvas
38 x 102 cm
2008

2007
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oil on canvas
68 x 30 cm
2007

2007
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oil on canvas
140 x 160 cm
2007

2007
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oil on canvas
68 x 30 cm
2007

2007
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mixed media
68 x 30 cm
2007

2007
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oil on canvas
30 x 68 cm
2007

2007
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oil on canvas
68 x 30 cm
2007

2007
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oil on canvas
92 x 38 cm
2007

02 – 05 MARCH 2017 /// NEW YORK, USA

GROUP EXHIBITION

Baris Saribas – Beyza Boynudelik – Bubi – Ekin Ergok – Ekrem Yalcindag – Emir Uras – Ergin Inan – Ertugrul Ates – Evren Erol – Fatmagul Karadeniz – Fulya Asyali – Gokhan Deniz – Gulce Yelken – Gulveli Kaya – Gunes Cinar – Gunseli Kato – Husamettin Kocan – Kurt Bullend – Levent Morgok – Murat Germen – Nadide Akdeniz – Necip Baykara – Onay Akbas – Ozan Turkkan – Rengin Altinalmaz – Ruchan Sahinoglu – Selin Selgur – Seydi Murat Koc – Sira Oflaz – Varol Topac – Yusuf Taktak – Zeynep Dilek Cetiner

After its participation in Scope Miami Art Show, Çağla Cabaoğlu Gallery took part in Scope New York Art Show between March 02 and 06, 2017, with an installation titled “Istanbul’s Cabinet of Curiosities”, comprising of the works of 32 contemporary Turkish artists.

Following Miami Scope Art Show, Çağla Cabaoğlu Gallery introduced this time a mural collage installation of multidisciplinary works inspired by the city, stepping forth from the cultural layers of Istanbul. With this exhibition Çağla Cabaoğlu Gallery attracts attention to the relationship between Turkey’s contemporary art practices and Anatolian culture as the junction, intersection of civilizations throughout the ages as well as today’s world: thirty two artists from different generations, living and producing at varied geographies, nourished by their habitat, contemporary practices of art, Anatolia’s cultural heritage and their personal experiences.

“Cabinet of Curiosities”, originated with the discovery impetus of the Renaissance, initially brought together items which were discrepant, amazing and heterodox. Then, re-introduced the eclectic structure posed within the framework of a homogeneous universe ranging from a collection to the idea and concept of a museum. Cabinet of Curiosities is a symbol of curiosity, research, and inquiry, propagating knowledge, prestige and new perspectives. Further to being a symbolic conveyance of the personal universe, a transformation of whatever belongs to the culture and accumulation of humanity.

“Istanbul‘s Cabinet of Curiosities” concept is at the same time a suggestion regarding intercultural dialogue and transitivity.

While the concept of Istanbul‘s Cabinet of Curiosities highlighted the movement of the culture over the trade routes of the Phoenicians from Istanbul to the Mediterranean and from there to South America, as well as the indicators of a process that signifies a dialogue with similarities and diversities, the project also remarks the productions of artists coming from different generations and geographies of Istanbul, which is an unusual and special world city composed of different cultural layers.

Çağla Cabaoğlu Gallery generated this project through rare works of very specific artists selected from amongst the exclusive and setting sail on a new odyssey in pursuit of the historical accumulation. Following the footsteps of civilization ever since the Phoenicians, is reshaping Turkey’s artists living and creating in the 21st century in soils not too distant apart. And is bringing together the époque-integrated works of those artists impersonating such terra with the mutual language of the greater global terrain.

CATALOG (PDF)

29 NOVEMBER – 04 DECEMBER 2016 /// MIAMI, USA

GROUP EXHIBITION

Baris Saribas – Bedri Baykam – Beyza Boynudelik – Bubi – Ebru Duruman – Ekrem Kahraman – Ekrem Yalcindag – Emir Uras – Ergin Inan – Ertugrul Ates – Evren Erol – Fatmagul Karadeniz – Fulya Asyali – Gokhan Avcioglu – Gokhan Deniz – Gulce Yelken – Gulveli Kaya – Gunes Cinar – Gunseli Kato – Hakan Cinar – Halil Akdeniz – Harun Antakyali – Hasan Cem Araptarli – Husamettin Kocan – Huseyin Arda – Kerem Agrali – Kurt Bullend – Levent Morgok – Nadide Akdeniz – Necip Baykara – Murat Germen – Onay Akbas – Ozan Turkkan – Rengin Altinalmaz – Ruchan Sahinoglu – Serpil Kapar – Seydi Murat Koc – Ugur Caki – Varol Topac – Yigit Yazici

Çağla Cabaoğlu Gallery took part at Scope Miami Art Show between November 29 and December 04, 2016 with an installation of 9×3 m titled “Istanbul’s Cabinet of Curiosities”, comprising of the works of 42 contemporary Turkish artists.

16 AUGUST – 16 OCTOBER 2016 /// 42 MASLAK, ISTANBUL

GROUP EXHIBITION

Ayla Turan – Baris Saribas – Beyza Boynudelik – Evren Erol – Fatmagul Karadeniz – Fulya Asyali – Gokhan Deniz – Gokte Tunc – Gulce Yelken – Gunes Cinar – Hakan Bilal Karakaya – Hakan Cinar – Hakan Kirdar – Hasan Cem Araptarli – Ilke Kutlay – Kerem Agrali – Kurt Bullend – Levent Morgok – Nadide Akdeniz – Necip Baykara – Olgu Ulkenciler – Rengin Altinalmaz – Ruchan Sahinoglu – Serpil Kapar – Ugur Caki – Varol Topac

12 DECEMBER 2015 – 12 MARCH 2016 /// ÇAĞLA CABAOĞLU ART GALLERY

GROUP EXHIBITION

Baris Saribas – Elif Tutka – Evren Sungur – Fatmagul Karadeniz – Gokhan Deniz – Kagan Toros – Kurt Bullend – Levent Morgok – Nadide Akdeniz – Necip Baykara – Rengin Altinalmaz – Seda Gazioglu