Ahmet Aydın Atmaca was born in 1982 in İstanbul. He graduated from Anadolu University Faculty of Fine Arts Sculpture Department. Finished Master Program at Marmara University Fine Arts Institute Sculpture department with thesis titled “Public Sculpture in Turkey and freedom of expression”, in 2013. In 2023 he has finished his Proficiency in Art program with a thesis titled “Existentialist Influences in Contemporary Sculpture”. He worked as Research Assistant at İstanbul Kemerburgaz University between 2011-2014. Recently he is working as Research Assistant at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Sculpture Department.

 

Solo Exhibitions

2022 Remains of Memory, Summart Art Center, İstanbul

2009 Sculpture and Drawing Exhibition Cef Gallery, İstanbul

 

Selected Group Exhibitions

2023 “Love, Peace and Harmony”, Curator: Bengü Gün, Artİstanbul Feshane

2021 “Stranger Things”, Summart Art Center, İstanbul

2019 “Ecotone”,MSFAU Research Assistants Exhibition, Tophanei      Amire, İstanbul

2018 “From Another Hill”, 10th Terrace Exhibition, Elgiz Museum, Istanbul

2018 “Join the Dots / Unire le distanze” Salone degli Incanti, Trieste

2015 “ON”, Baksı Museum 10th year anniversary exhibition, Baksı Museum, Bayburt

2012 “Distance and Touch” Baksı Museum, Bayburt

 

Project Exhibitions

2019 “#workinprogress”, Daire gallery, İstanbul

2012 “Symphony in Green”, Alan İstanbul Project Rooms, İstanbul

 

Art Fairs

2023 CI BLOOM, İBB Taksim Sanat, Lütfi Kırdar Kongre ve Sergi Sarayı, İstanbul

2020 Step İstanbul with Noks Art Space, Tomtom Kırmızı, İstanbul

2019 “The Evil That Men Do”, Artist 2019, 29th International İstanbul Art Fair, Tüyap

 

Symposiums

2016 “2nd Kyzikos International Sculpture Symposium, Erdek

2015 “12th Alanya Stone Sculpture Symposium, Alanya”

 

Collaborations

2022 Geeva Flava/KAFT Keymaker Sculpture, IKSV Istanbul

 

TV Programs

2023 Bein İZ TV “Kil-Boya-Piksel” Program 7th chapter: “Sculpture in Public Places”

2019 TRT2 “A Painting, A Story” program, 44th chapter: “Cezanne, Mont Sainte Victoire”

 

Publications

2015 “Public Sculpture in Turkey”, Tol Chamber of Architects Kayseri Office, Architecture Culture Magazine, Year:12, Issue:12, Spring 2015, p.71-75

 

Professional Membership

Sculptors Association, Türkiye