Kaplankadilak Kipat

Güçlü Öztekin (b. 1978, Eskişehir) graduated from Mimar Sinan University Faculty of Fine Arts Department of Painting in 2003. His most recent solo exhibitions are I, a New Brave World, Dirimart Pera, Istanbul (2023); What’s On Your Mind River, İstinye Park, Izmir (2022); Topsy Turvy! Selpakla Gorili Bitirdim!, Dirimart, Istanbul (2017); Şe Şe Pa Pa… Sometimes You Need to Cry to Fish, Rampa, Istanbul (2015); Everything’s Tickling Each Other, Krinzinger Projekte, Vienna (2012) and kAPLANKADİLAk – He Was a Nasty Man but He Washed His Hands Obsessively, Rampa, Istanbul (2010). Öztekin also participated and performed in various group exhibitions including music, performance and personal productions with these two groups as a member of HA ZA VU ZU and GuGuOu artist groups. Among these exhibitions are Fez Gez, Bilsart, Istanbul (2022); For Whom Is It Too Late Today? – Between Stamp and Mars, Frac des Pays de la Loire, Carquefou (2009); 10th Baltic Triennial of International Art, Vilnius (2009); 10th Lyon Biennial, Lyon (2009); Kaserne, Basel (2008); Mercy, Liverpool (2008); Rotterdamse Schouwburg (2008); Bovisa Triennial, Milan (2008); Lokaal01, Antwerp (2008) and the 10th Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul (2007). Öztekin lives and works in Istanbul.