Overview
Fatma Bucak studied Philosophy at Istanbul University and History of Art and Etching in Italy at the Albertina Academy of Fine Arts, before completing her MA in Photography at the Royal College of Art, London.
Bucak's works in performance, photography, sound, and video, center on political identity, religious mythology, and landscape as a space of historical renegotiation. Investigating the fragility, tension and irreversibility of history, the power of testimony and memory. in her practice she often questions traditional forms of history-making as well as cultural and gender norms.
Works
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Sum of the misdeeds and consents and cowardly acts, 2022
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A Tree, 2022
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An Interlude, 2022
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Perpetual lure and insistent fear, 2022
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Enduring Nature of thoughts , 2018
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Damascus rose, 2016 - ongoing
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Remains of what has not been said , 2016
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From the Series of A Study of Eight Landscapes - A Border View, 2015 - ongoing project
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When I have to cross the bar - I see the path, 2015
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I must say a word about fear, 2014-2018
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Fall, 2013
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Suggested place for you to see it - And then God blessed them , 2013
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Blessed are you who come - Conversation on the Turkish-Armenian border
Exhibitions
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Fatma Bucak
A World of Ten Thousand Things 26 Sep - 10 Nov 2018 IstanbulPi Artworks Istanbul is proud to present, the first solo exhibition A World of Ten Thousand Things by Fatma Bucak for Pi Artworks Istanbul curated by Övül Ö. Durmuşoğlu between the dates 26 September – 10 November 2018. The exhibition will feature site-specific installations including videos and a sculptural work.Read more -
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Sticks and Stones 29 Sep - 21 Nov 2017 LondonPi Artworks London is pleased to present Fatma Bucak’s first solo exhibition in the UK,Sticks and Stones, curated by Nat Muller. A fortnightly in-gallery performance will accompany the work Black Ink (2016-ongoing). “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never break me,” hums the old nursery rhyme. Today, in an ever-polarising climate of assault on the press and free speech, words are increasingly used to break those who utter them. In Sticks and Stones Fatma Bucak addresses two of the most pertinent struggles of our times: for freedom of expression and freedom of movement. Through her photographs, videos and installations she shows how these two liberties are inextricably intertwined.Read more
Biography
Fatma Bucak, b. 1984, Turkey, lives and works in London, Istanbul and Turin.
Solo exhibitions include;
While the Dust Quickly Falls, Dresden Kunsthaus, Germany, (curated by Kari Conte, 2022); In Prestissimo, Peola Simondi Contemporary Art, Italy, (2020) Acts of Erasure, MOCA Toronto - Museum of Contemporary Art (2019 - duo); A Colossus on Clay Feet, ICI New York - Italian Cultural Institute (2019); So as to find the strength to see, Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Palermo, Italy (2018); A World of Ten Thousand Things, Pi Artworks, Istanbul (2018); So as to find the strength to see, Merz Foundation, Torino, Italy (2018); Sticks and Stones, Pi Artworks London, UK (2017); Damascus Rose, Harpe 45, Lausanne, Switzerland (2017); And men turned their faces from there, Brown University David Winton Bell Gallery, USA (2016); Suggested place for you to see it, Pori Art Museum, Finland (2016); Nothing is in its own place, Alberto Peola Gallery, Turin, Italy (2015); Over a line, darkly, Artpace, San Antonio, Texas, USA (2015); I must say a word about fear, Castello di Rivoli, Museum of Contemporary Art, Turin, Italy (2014); Yet an Other Story About the Fall, ARTER, Istanbul, Turkey (2013).
Major group exhibitions and screenings include; Good Space-Communities, or the Promise of Happiness, Villa Merkel, Esslingen, Germany (2019); Videobox, Carreau du Temple, Le Syndicat Magnifique, Paris, France (2018); Scouring the press, Bilsart, Istanbul, Turkey (2018); GIBCA – Goteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art (2017); Meeting Points 8: Both sides of the curtain – Mophradat, Beirut Art Center (2017); Lo Specchio Concavo, BACO, Bergamo, Italy (2016); International Festival of Non-Fiction Film and Media, MoMA, New York, USA (2015); Sights and Sounds: Turkey, Jewish Museum, NY, USA (2015); Art in General Screening Programme, NY, USA (2014); Bloomberg New Contemporaries 13, ICA, London and Spike Island, Bristol, UK (2013); Manifesta 9 - Parallel Events, Genk, Belgian (2012); Cairo Award, La Permanente Museum, Milan, Italy (2011) and 54th Venice Biennale - Tese di San Cristoforo, Italy (2011).
Selected awards and art residencies include; ISCP New York (2018); La Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris (2017); Artpace San Antonio, Texas (2015); Townhouse International Art Residency, Cairo (2014); Illy Present Future Award, Italy (2013); Damiani Award/Academy Now Award, London, UK (2013); The Worshipful Company of Painter – Stainers Prize award, London (2012).
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Events
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While The Dust Quickly Falls
Fatma Bucak in Conversation with Kari Conte | Goethe Institut | New York 6 Sep 2023This book launch for While the Dust Quickly Falls (Mousse Publishing, 2023) will feature a conversation between artist Fatma Bucak, curator Kari Conte, and scholar...Read more -
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Book Launch I While The Dust Quickly Falls 27 Apr 2023Pi Artworks, London 27 April Thursday Talk Fatma Bucak with Sophie J Williamson While the Dust Quickly Falls, was published for Bucak’s titular exhibition at...Read more -
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As part of the Nice Biennial of Arts 2022 “Flowers!” and under the general curatorship of Jean-Jacques Aillagon 10 Nov 2022 - 30 Apr 2023The show will focus on ecological, anthropological, and geopolitical issues related to flowers. The works of 30 artists from various countries on display, which date...Read more -
Fatma Bucak | Art and Journalism. So Near, So Far.
Artissima 2022 | Panel Talk 4 Nov 2022What is the relationship between art and journalism today? What reflections can we make on the reciprocal relationship between the two? These questions will be...Read more -
FATMA BUCAK: WHILE THE DUST QUICKLY FALLS | Kunsthaus Dresden - Germany
Solo presentation developed in collaboration with the Kunsthaus Dresden 11 Jun - 2 Oct 2022In While the Dust Quickly Falls , artist Fatma Bucak asks us to consider how political violence accelerates environmental destruction and climate change. Bucak engaged...Read more -
Fatma Bucak I This Play I Arter Museum
Group Show I Curated by Emre Baykal 17 Feb 2022 - 9 Apr 2023Drawn from the Arter Collection, the group exhibition ThisPlay revolves around the concepts of childhood and play. The exhibition aims to explore the liberating aspect...Read more -
Nancy Atakan & Fatma Bucak
Don’t Look Back, Deep is the Past 10 Dec 2021 - 31 May 2022Pi Artworks artists Nancy Atakan and Fatma Bucak ’s works will be featured in the exhibition 'Don’t Look Back, Deep is the Past” at Odun...Read more -
''Acts of Erasure'', Fatma Bucak & Krista Belle Stewart
Duo Exhibition 1 Oct 2020 - 1 Dec 2021Acts of Erasure brings the two distinct artistic practices of Fatma Bucak and Krista Belle Stewart into dialogue. This pairing opens space for conversations around...Read more -
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Artist in Residence grant for arts 2020 for the young artist Fatma Bucak 1 Dec 2019'Writing Through Erosion' is the project name for which the artist Fatma Bucak receives next year's artist-inresidence grant of the Foundation of Arts & Music...Read more -
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Somewhere in Between, curated by Eva Eriksdotter and Ulrika Flink 21 Sep 2019 - 12 Jan 2020Somewhere in Between is a group exhibition that through primarily moving image explores memories and landscape, national identity and the role of myth in history...Read more