Ekin Saçlıoğlu creates in disciplines such as painting, sculpture, drawing, and installation and uses a rich variety of materials. Inversion and dualities such as fiction-real, natural-artificial, animate and inanimate as well as memory, dreams and memories, stories and tales, animals and plants, and the relationship of different species present themselves in her work through metaphors.
The artist sometimes brings together the fictional and real world with the image of a pothole while sometimes asking us to reflect on the ways people become invisible in social and political life through animal camouflage. Images of extinct animals and plants point to the problems of existence in the human world. She asks us to think about the phenomenon of time through creating fictional ruins by breaking down the imaginary civilizations and structures she has established. The living and non-living beings mix, merge and disperse within these structures where man is not at the forefront.
Ekin Saçlıoğlu (1979 İzmir, Turkey) completed her BFA and MFA at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University on painting.
Her solo exhibitions include "Fragmented", .artSümer (2023); "The Earth's Remains and New Flowers", Ankara Nev (2018); "These Are Not Fables, Children", Galata Greek School (2017); "Peek and Keep" (2015), "Pothole" (2012), "I’m Shocked But I’m Not Surprised" (2011), "Cat Nap" (2009), "Narrative Memory" (2007), and "From a Little Closer" (2005) with gallery X-ist.
Selected group exhibitions include, "Brain Fog", .artSümer, Istanbul, (2022); "You Know Who", Abdülmecid Efendi Mansion, Istanbul, (2022); ‘‘Mardin Biennial Invited’’, Dabbakoğlu Evi, Mardin, (2022); ‘‘PRINTED’22: İziziz’’, Mixer, İstanbul (2022); ‘‘The Cling", Yapı Kredi Bomontiada, İstanbul, (2021); ‘‘Cadavra Exquis”, Gallery Nev, İstanbul, (2021); ‘‘What Does it Look Like?’’, 7th Çanakkale Biennial, Mahal, Çanakkale, (2020); ‘‘At the End of the Day”, Odunpazarı Moderm Museum, Eskişehir, (2020); “The Clandestine Life Of Objects”, Evliyagil Dolapdere, Istanbul, (2019); ‘‘Paper. A Selection of Turkish Contemporary Art”, Pilevneli Project Mecidiyeköy, İstanbul, (2019); ‘‘Grass", M.Ü. Cumhuriyet Museum, Ankara, (2018); ‘The Animal Side’’, Mixer, İstanbul, (2017); ‘‘Future Past’’, Museum of History and Archeology, Yekaterinburg, (2017); “’Pulsanti Aperietur: ...and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened”, Abdulmecid Efendi Mansion, İstanbul, (2017); "Dream and Reality", İstanbul Modern Museum, İstanbul, (2011); ‘‘Leisure Big Business”, Platform 3 Munich, Munich, (2011); "Chaotic Metamorphosis" Project 4L, Elgiz Museum, İstanbul, (2010); “10th Year at Kasa”, Kasa Gallery, İstanbul, (2010) and ‘‘450 Million Years of Friendship", Hafriyat Karaköy, İstanbul, (2009).
Ekin Saçlıoğlu lives and works in Istanbul.
