I just turn everything that I wonder, I’m interested in, whose theme touches me in a way within my daily life, into an art work. I am not an elitist artist. On the contrary, I believe everybody has a potential of creativity that would surface if they are provoked, if they can provoke themselves, or they accumulate self-belief. If people establish dialogue with my art, or take steps to get to know themselves, said potential might surface; I witness this process all times… Zaten benim merakım olan, ilgim olan, konusu bir biçimde benim günlük yaşantımın içersinde bana dokunan her şeyi sanata dönüştürüyorum. Seçkinci bir sanatçı değilim. Tam tersine her insanın içerisinde eğer kışkırtılırsa, kendileri kışkırtmayı becerirlerse ya da güveni biriktirirlerse ortaya çıkabilecek bir yaratım potansiyeli olduğuna inanıyorum. Benim sanatımla kurdukları diyalog ya da kendilerine yönelik attıkları her adım, kendiliğinden bu yaratımı çağırabilir; hep gördüm bunu…
Hakan Akçura (b. 1962), Painter, poet, video maker, performer and designer, living and working in Stockholm, Sweden.
Selected exhibitions, activities
2024
Anamnesis (Solo exhibition)
Ahmet Adnan Saygun Art Center, Izmir, Turkey
2023
Anamnesis (Solo exhibition)
Karsi Sanat Calismalari, Beyoglu, Istanbul, Turkey
2021
Invited artist of Sphinx 2021 - Hidden Biennial in Thiva/Thebes,
Greece, with his own event-specific project: "-Now is the time!
Let's honor their memory, Antigone!" (October 9-16, 2021)
Participation in the online seminar: Digital Imago Atlas (4) - "Art
of Hakan Akçura" (May 9, 2021)
Participation with artwork to online interactive exhibition platform @cevrimici40dakika (online40minutes) (January 18, 2021)
2020
Artist presentation in the online discussion platform "To walk, to
sleep, to fly, to die". (June, 2020)
2018
Invited artist of Sphinx 2018 - Hidden Biennial in Thiva/Thebes, Greece, with his own event-specific project: "Walking together towards the seven gates of the city of Thebes.”
2016
Participation to Artist 2016 / Istanbul Art Fair, ”Territories / Doomsday, Revolt!” Exhibition with his own event-specific work: "Duhan-i Mubin”.
2015
Invited artist of Sphinx 2015 - Hidden Biennial in Thiva/Thebes, Greece with his three works:
Main exhibition: "An too small island in Europe at 2011 or all of Europe soon", Video screen: “Thistles of Sazak", Performance: "The inter(s)a(n)ction of third individuations"
2014
Ankara International Film Festival, “40 videos on 40th anniversary of video-art in Turkey”, Ankara, Turkey
2013
Artist presentation: "Being in Sweden, being an immigrant, being
an artist", Adaevi, Museum of the Princes' Islands, Istanbul,
Turkey
"Yersiz: Kader Birligi", Mardin, Kızıltepe, Turkey
“Ja jag vill leva jag vill dö”, Tegen 2, Stockholm
"Vilken tur! Himlen omfamnar oss!”, Photography Exhibition,
Ideas and Innovation Fair, Stockholm
"Milat" Exhibition for Hrant, Getronagan High School Graduates
Association, Beyoglu, Istanbul
2012
Migration Connections Project 2012 Exhibition, Museum of the
Princes' Islands, Istanbul, Turkey
Screening on Edinburgh Middle Eastern Film Festival, Filmhouse,
Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Artist Talking and Screening, Agent Ria, Still Gallery, Edinburgh,
Scotland, UK
2011
Ars Retorica, Hall the university library of Paris 8 – Saint Denis,
France
The Exhibition on the 20th Anniversary of the Human Rights
Foundation of Turkey: Where Fire Has Struck, DEPO Istanbul,
Turkey
2010
PAI 2010-2011 in Thebes, Conference Center of Thebes, Greece
International Media Arts Festival Videfesta’10: Archive Fever,
Goethe Institute, Ankara, Turkey
Temps D'Images Portugal 2010 Festival Film Award for Films on
Art section
"From childhood to police station" Exhibition, Free Expantion
Platform, Istanbul, Turkey
HEP Iran screening, Sazmanab Project, Tehran, Iran
AthensArt 2010 contemporary art exhibition, Athens, Greece
PAI 2010 contemporary art exhibition, Samothrace, Greece
"Thistles of Sazak" screening and exhibition, 7th Karaburun
Festival, Izmir, Turkey
Distance Festival, London, UK
"Artist Cinema", Art Beijing, China
Over trubled water, Tegen 2, Stockholm, Sweden Ankara
International Film Festival, "Video: Spaces of Memory", Ankara,
Turkey
Direct Channell, Canakkale' Turkey
!F Istanbul Film Festival 2010 online program: See it yourself (This
village)' Istanbul, Turkey
HEP Screening, AFA Beijing, China
Tornavideo, Tamirhane, Ankara, Turkey
2009
“Projected Visions: 35 years of Turkish video art” exhibition
Meeting Europe - Istanbul, Wacken Exhibition Centre, Strasbourg,
France
HEP Screening, AFA @ Portuguese Bookshop Gallery, Macau,
China
"Dirty Story", BM Suma, Istanbul, Turkey
HEP Screening, Caldas-da-Rainha, Portugal
HEP Screening, Berlin, Germany
"Thistles of Sazak", art performance, Karaburun, Izmir, Turkey
"Istanbul-Off-Spaces" co-exhibition, Kunstraum Kreuzberg/
Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
"Interzone:Nation", Gallery Galzenica, Zagreb, Croatia
HEP Screening, LaSala in Cigunuela, Spain
HEP screening, Melbourne, Australia
"Varning för klämrisk", Solo Exhibition, Tegen 2, Stockholm,
Sweden
Ankara International Film Festival, Ankara, Turkey
2008
1st Int. Roaming Biennial of Tehran, Berlin, Germany
"Hög på Golvet" group exhibition at Tegen 2, Stockholm, Sweden
1st Int. Roaming Biennial of Tehran, Istanbul, Turkey
International Mail Art Project 2008, Conceptual Continuity
Supermarket 2008 Art Fair with Tegen 2, Stockholm, Sweden
2007
"Fear of god" co-exhibition, Hafriyat Karakoy, Istanbul, Turkey
Bodrum Film Festival, Bodrum, Mugla, Turkey
"Jag, min husses hund" group exhibition, Tegen 2, Stockholm,
Sweden
"Nightcomers" project in the 10th Biennial of Istanbul, Istanbul,
Turkey
Scope NYC [PAM], Scope Art Fair, Lincoln Center, New York, USA
2006
"Labyrint" in Botkyrka Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden
Artist's "Sann dialog" ("Real dialogue") contemporary art activity
has been started. Stockholm, Sweden
Artist sent his videoperformance named as "Öppet brev till
Migrationsverket" to Migrationsverket ("Open letter to Sweden
Migration Board") 51', Stockholm, Sweden
2004
Artist given his art-object named as "För uppehållsstillstånd" to
Migrationsverket ("For residence permission"), Istanbul, Turkey
"Bridge from east to west", BBK Karlsruhe, Germany
2003
AIAP "Hal/iç" with work name the "Difficult sleep". Kadir Has
University, Istanbul, Turkey
2002
"Arts Plastiques" in METU Spring Festival at METU Congre Center,
Ankara, Turkey
"A travel into life" at Kargart, Istanbul, Turkey
2001
"Sometimes when I'm high, I watch TV", video performance
screening, Dulcinea, Istanbul, Turkey
A solo contemporary art exhibition with 210 participants: I want
my mirrors. Dulcinea Istanbul, Turkey
2000
"Veritas Omnia Vincit", Istanbul, Turkey
Artist's "I want my mirrors" contemporary art activity has been started, Istanbul, Turkey
1999
2th Interbalcanic Symposium of Visual Arts and co-exhibition,
Samotrache/Greece
1998
"...self", solo exhibition. Dulcinea, Istanbul, Turkey
"The Other", Istanbul, Turkey
1996
"Citypaintings", solo exhibition. Habitat II/NGO Forum '96 art
activities, Istanbul, Turkey
Publication of book of poems: "Limpin Bird" (Aksak Kus) (168
page, 81 poem, 81 picture), Istanbul, Turkey
1995
Fourth Biennial of Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
"Young Activity/Borders and Beyong", Istanbul, Turkey
1991
Short film maker and director, ("Everything is as it is", 24', 16
mm. Included in TRT's "Young Cinematographers" programme),
Istanbul, Turkey
