My work oscillates between what is imagined and what is held in the hand. I am interested in how narratives mythic, cultural, historical, imagined operate within society, shaping its dynamics, and how, in turn, those dynamics define and express our identity.
I use geometry to provide a framework for this inquiry. It offers order, relation, and intelligibility, yet it is not static; it evolves as it is applied, revealing new configurations under changing conditions.
Clay serves as both medium and interlocutor. It resists, responds, records and re re re..
2014-2015 ESCM Escola d’Art i Superior de Ceràmica de Manises, MFA Exchange, Valencia, Spain
2011-2012 ESCM Escola d’Art i Superior de Ceràmica de Manises, BFA Exchange, Valencia, Spain
2008-2012 Hacettepe University, BFA, Ceramics and Glass, Ankara, Turkey
Residency
2025 People of The Wind, Jingdezhen University Longquan Research Institute (3 months), Longquan, China
2025 Between Benches — Branches, Dongzhart Contemporary Museum (1 month), Jiaxing, China
Curated and Solo Exhibitions
2026 Terra, People of the Wind | Vergeet niet in te checken! — group exhibition curated by Marlene Deutinger, C3, Rotterdam Art Week, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2026 Hand Gestures, People of The Wind — group exhibition curated by HuangKe, Qi Xiang Contemporary Ceramic Museum, Zhengzhou, China
2025-2026 Forest Was Not Made for Man, Man Was Made for Forest | Matter: Bounded Energy— group exhibition curated by Feng Boyi, Taoxichuan Art Gallery, Jingdezhen, China
2025 Between Benches — Branches — solo, Dongzhart Contemporary Museum, Jiaxing, China
2025 People of the Wind — solo, Longquan Research Institute, Longquan, China
2025 La Folia | Crafting New Narratives — semi-permanent exhibition, curated by Venessa de Gruijter and Erdoğan Aykaç, World Museum, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2024 A Wake of Apsaras, | Cake is a Lie — collaboration with Marcos Kueh and Khushu Ritvik, curated by Ine Gevers and Arjon Dunnewind, Impact Festival, Utrecht, The Netherlands
2024 A Wake of Apsaras — collaboration with Marcos Kueh and Khushu Ritvik, Glue, Waag, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2024 La Folia Variations — Museum Paul Tetar van Elven, Delft, The Netherlands
2024 12th Variation | (Un)known Territories — group exhibition curated by Geertje Jacobs, Director of EKWC Officine Saffi Gallery, Milan, Italy
2023-2024 La Folia, 23rd Variation | Journey of Ceramics — Jury selected Exhibition, Jingdezhen International Ceramic Art Biennale, work is in JCIU collection, Jingdezhen, China
2023-2024 Timely, on Time | My Oma, curated by Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy, Rosa de Graaf, Jessy Koeiman, Julija Mockutė, and Vivian Ziherl, Kunstinstituut Melly, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2023 Children of 2050 — collaboration with Bianca Carague, Tetem, Enschede, The Netherlands
2022- Repetition | Herbarium Collection — curated Irina Batkova, Sofia, Bulgaria
2022 Innocent Cabbage — curated by Voin de Voin, Sofia Art Week, Æther Art Space, Sofia, Bulgaria
2022 Xenofossils — collaboration with Erik Peters, Tetem, Enschede, The Netherlands
2021 Of Concern I — Public Sculpture and Short Stories, UEB, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Artist Talks
2025 Presence, Confrontation, Touch — Taoxichuan Art Gallery, Jingdezhen, China
2025 Artist Talk — Hacettepe University, Faculty of Fine Arts, Ceramics and Glass, Ankara, Turkey
2024 Show and Tell — Kunstinstituut Melly, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2023 H Talks — Herbarium Collection, Sofia, Bulgaria
2022 Conversas — Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2021 The Effects of Digital Transformation on Ceramic Art During the Pandemic — Erciyes University, Turkey
Public Projects
2022 Een aarbei = Een verhaal — Public Project, in collaboration with Stichting Wijkcollectie, Bospolder Tussendijk, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2022 Of Concern II — Public Workshop and Installation, in collaboration with Stichting Wijkcollectie, South Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2021 Of Concern I — Public Installation and Collection of Short Stories, UEB, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Publications & Media
2023 Forest Was Not Made for Man, Man Was Made for Forest, Matter: Bounded Energy — Artist Catalogue, Jingdezhen, China
2025 La Folia, Crafting New Narratives —Outdoor Campaign, World Museum Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2025 La Folia, Crafting New Narratives — Published in In Sight Rotterdam Magazine, The Netherlands
2024 Ceramics in D Minor, Hudabnx Zivat Music Magazine — Featured front-page and Q&A with musicologist Patrik Sabo, Bratislava, Slovakia
2024 12th Variation, (Un)known Territories — Artist Catalogue, Officine Saffi Gallery, Milan, Italy
2023 La Folia, Journey of Ceramics 2023 — Artist Catalogue, Jingdezhen, China
2021 Of Concern I — Publication, Short Stories, Riso Printed, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Grants & Contributions
2025 Between Benches — Branches — Residency Voucher, funded by Mondrian Funds, The Netherlands
2025 Between Benches — Branches — Artist Project, funded by CBK Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2024 People of the Wind — Deepening and Impulse Grant, funded by CBK Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2024 People of the Wind — P.M. de Klerk Ceramic Fund, Het Cultuurfonds, The Netherlands
2024 The Dispossessed, Danwei Unfolding — Production Fee, supported by the Dutch Embassy, Shanghai, China
2023 Jingdezhen International Ceramic Biennale — Travel and transportation of artwork, funded by the Dutch Embassy, Beijing, China
2023 Timely, on Time — Artist Production Grant, funded by SAHA, Istanbul, Turkey
2023 Ceramics in D Minor — R&D Grant, funded by CBK Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2022 Xenofossils — Development and production fee, Tetem, Enschede, The Netherlands
2021 Of Concern I — Public Artwork, funded by Droom en Daad, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2021 Clay Mates — Claymation Movie, collaboration with Colin Dasen, funded by Droom en Daad, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Mentorship
2025 Mentorship (1 month), supported by CBK Rotterdam (requested)
2024 Mentorship (1 month), supported by Amarte Fonds (requested)
2023 Erasmus Internship Program (3 months), University of Porto, Porto, Portugal
2022 Inorganics, Ceramics Chemistry Mentorship (3 months), Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2022 Mentorship, Research & Development project (1 month) supported by CBK Rotterdam
2021 Clay Mates— Children Workshop (3 months), Claymation Movie, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2021 Internship (3 months), HKU, Utrecht, The Netherlands
2021 Handbuilding Workshop — Summer program, Kunstinstituut Melly, Rotterdam, The Netherlands