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Sakir Gökcebag
Sakir Gökcebag is a visual artist from Turkey, he studied art in Istanbul and is currently based in Hamburg.

Biography
Sakir Gökcebag was born in Denizli Turkey in 1965. He received his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D degrees from the Faculty of Fine Arts at Marmara University. Besides his exhibitions in Turkey, Şakir Gökçebağ participated in numerous international shows across Europe. The works of Sakir Gökcebag are characterized by lightness, simplicity and silent humour. They are based on everyday objects. Gökçebağ combines different materials, substitutes one for another, changes the usual function of the object, and alters the position from which people view it.

Selected Solo Exhibitions

 * 2020: Ornamenta,, Schorndorf
 * 2019: Familiar / Aşina, Baksi Museum, Bayburt, Turkey
 * 2018: Golden Cut/Der Goldene Schnitt, Städtische Galerie Nordhorn
 * 2018: Things with me / Önüm Ankam Sagim Solum, Adas, Istanbul
 * 2016: Reorientation, Kunstverein Ludwigshafen
 * 2016: Brella & Et Cetera, Kunstverein Pforzheim
 * 2016: Objectations, gkg - Gesellschaft für Kunst und Gestaltung, Bonn
 * 2015: Think Tank, Galerist, Istanbul
 * 2015: Aftermade, Sariev Contemporary, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
 * 2014: Horizon, Anningahof, Zwolle / Nederland
 * 2013: Der, Die, Das, curated by René Block, Gallery Arsenal, Poznan, Poland
 * 2012: Prefix & Suffix, curated by René Block, Kunstraum TANAS, Berlin
 * 2011: Bıyıkaltı, Gallery Apel, IstanbuL
 * 2010: Simple Present, Saarländisches Künstlerhaus, Saarbrücken
 * 2010: Allreadymade, Gallery Peripherie, Tübingen
 * 2009: Shared Space, Einstellungsraum, Hamburg
 * 2008: Cuttemporary Art, Kunstverein Leverkusen
 * 2008: Following in Fluxus, Gallery Inge Baecker, Bad Münstereifel

Selected Group Exhibitions

 * 2019: The Event of a Thread: Global Narratives in Textiles, Istanbul Modern
 * 2019: COOKBOOK’19, La Panacée, MoCo – Montpellier Contemporain
 * 2017: Der stinknormale Mann, Motorenhalle. Projektzentrum für zeitgenössische Kunst, Dresden
 * 2016: Illegibility. the contexts of script, Art Stations Foundation, Poznan, Poland
 * 2014: Macht.Wahn.Vision.Rapunzel & Co., Arp Museum, Bahnhof Rolandseck, Remagen
 * 2014: TREUDDK, Gallery Susanne Ottensen, Copenhagen
 * 2014: at the Crossroads II, Sotheby’s, London
 * 2013: Schnittstelle / Muster III –, Gesellschaft für Kunst und Gestaltung, Bonn
 * 2013: Macht. Wahn.Vision., Museum im Deutschhof & Kunsthalle Vogelmann, Heilbronn
 * 2011: Zwölf im Zwölften, TANAS, Berlin
 * 2010: Gewinn Machen, Kunsthaus Hamburg
 * 2009: Taswir – Pictorial Mappings of Islam and Modernity, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin
 * 2007: Passion of Mankind, Summer Biennial, Lulea, Sweden

Awards

 * 2016: Leo Breuer Prize, Bonn
 * 2015: Grant of the Art Foundation Kunstfonds, Bonn
 * 2013: Publication Grant of the Art Foundation Kunstfonds, Bonn
 * 2012: George Maciunas Prize, Wiesbaden
 * 1996: Markus Lüpertz Prize, Kunstakademie Düsseldorf
 * 1995/96: Scholarship of DAAD, Kunstakademie Düsseldorf
 * 1991: State Painting & Sculpture Prize, Ankara
 * 1991: Scholarship Austrian Government, Summer Academy Salzburg

Zitat
“Wir können davon ausgehen, dass der Fluxus Gründer seine helle Freude an der innovativen Verfremdung der Alltagsdinge gehabt hätte”. René Block, Verleihung des George Maciunas Preis 2012

Monographs

 * Familiar / Asina, Baksi Museum, ISBN 978-605-66341-6-1
 * Der Goldene Schnitt, Städtische Galerie Nordhorn, ISBN 978-3-945950-03-6
 * Minifesto, Distanz Verlag, ISBN 978-3-95476-205-7
 * Prefix & Suffix, Tanas, Berlin, ISBN 978-3-00-044713-6
 * Der, Die, Das, Galeria Miejska Arsenal, Poznan, ISBN 978-83-61886-50-1
 * Simple Present, Saarländisches Künstlerhaus Saarbrücken, ISBN 978-3-940517-47-0