Born 1990 in Lüleburgaz, Türkiye
In 2013, she graduated from the Painting Department of Marmara Fine Arts Academy in Istanbul and continued her education at Prof. Franz Ackermann’s atelier at the Karlsruhe State Academy of Fine Arts between 2015-2018.
Lives and works in Düsseldorf, Germany
Akinci’s works can be defined in terms of nature, space, disappearance and re-creation. Creating imaginary fictional spaces by deforming archived pieces of nature and combining them with various mediums can be seen in her art. With the variety of materials she uses and the harmony she captures in the visual chaos, she points to alternative existences and leaves some areas ambiguous. By melting sharp corners in an indeterminate reality, she builds homogeneous structures with intertwined boundaries in her spaces.
The exhibition “Route” brings together elements inspired by nature to create their own fictional spaces, allowing fluid structures with indeterminate boundaries and contrasts. In doing so, the artist deals with “unclear life”, “destruction”, as well as the “cycle of restoration” by making the route of the compositions unknown. Designed spaces, dense lines, interlocking motifs, clouds of color and collaged fragments that do not point in a definitive direction, can determine their own path or lead to the arbitrary.
