VOLKAN ASLAN

Volkan Aslan’s practice explores memory, time, and the shifting meanings attached to everyday objects and experiences. He transforms found objects, personal recollections, and familiar images into new, often surreal relationships, treating memory as fluid—partly remembered, partly forgotten, and constantly reconstructed.

Volkan Aslan (1982, Ankara) has a BFA in painting from Mersin University Faculty of Fine Arts. He has had institutional solo exhibitions in Istanbul including, Stay Safe, SALT Galata, Istanbul (2021), and Don't Forget to Remember, ARTER, Istanbul (2013).

Volkan Aslan’s recent gallery solos include Same New Day (2023) and There was enough room yet no water (2022) with .artSümer gallery Istanbul; We Forget Because It Works (2019) with Galerie Paris-B; and Shoot me! Don't turn me over! (2018) with Pi Artworks.

He has taken part in the 15th Istanbul Biennial titled A Good Neighbour (2017), 13th Istanbul Biennial titled Mom, am I barbarian (2013), and 2019 Anren Biennial (China), as well as museum exhibitions including This Play (2022), Rounded by Sleep (2022), What Time Is It (2019) at ARTER, Istanbul; Harbor, Istanbul Modern (2017); Istanbul. Passion, Joy, Fury, MAXXI National Museum of 21st Century Arts, Rome (2015); A Question of Taste (2021) and Souvenirs of The Future (2022) at the Pera Museum, Istanbul; Everything will be just like now – just a little different, Künstlerhaus Palais Thurn und Taxis, Bregenz (2023); and The Sequential, SALT Galata, Istanbul (2021).

Aslan lives and works in Istanbul, where he is the co-founder of 5533, a non-profit independent art space.