Burak Dikilitaş is a visual artist working with time-based art forms, including photography, video, and installation. His works are primarily presented through exhibitions and photobooks. Urban research, infrastructural systems, and technological speculations shape his practice. He seeks to highlight how individual and collective memory can produce alternative social imaginaries. Rather than treating subjects and conditions as fixed phenomena, his work examines them as temporary, layered fields of experimental observation.
Educated in Istanbul and Rotterdam, he graduated from the Photography Department at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University in 2015. During his studies, his works were exhibited at the Akbank Contemporary Artists Prize and received the No. 8 Award at ARTIST 2015 / 25th International Art Fair. He later moved to Izmir, where he developed projects and collaborated with various artistic initiatives, including Darağaç Art Collective.
In 2021, he completed a fully funded non-thesis MA in Visual Arts and Visual Communication Design at Sabancı University. In 2025, he began his MA thesis research, “Images of Destruction and Urbanscapes in Contemporary Turkish Photography,” at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University. His work has been shown at Sakıp Sabancı Museum, Akbank Sanat, Elgiz Museum, Barın Han, Studio-X Istanbul, and Darağaç.
Education
Photography MA, Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Istanbul
Visual Arts and Visual Communication Design MA (with Full Scholarship), Sabancı University, Istanbul
Photography BA, Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Istanbul
Autonome Beeldende Kunst (Full Year Exchange), Willem de Kooning Academy, Rotterdam
Selected Exhibitions
REGULARS [MÜDAVİM], Olimpiyat Restaurant, Istanbul
PAST PRESENT ISTANBUL, Sabancı Museum, Istanbul
ATIŞ SERBEST: MECMU, Barın Han, Istanbul
AIR BAYRAMPAŞA: UNEXPECTED GUEST, PASAJ, Istanbul
KERNEL PANIC, NOKS Independent Art Space, Istanbul
RESOURCE UTOPIA, Elgiz Museum, Istanbul
CHAPTERS, Piyaleoğlu Han 30, Kemeraltı, İzmir
LIVING AND PRODUCING IN IZMIR: AUTHORS OF THE CITY, Studio-X, Istanbul
MANIFESTO, K2 Contemporary Art Center, İzmir
ARALIK: Book Launch and Exhibition, KARANTİNA Mekan, İzmir
BKZ. DARAĞAÇ, Darağaç, İzmir
DARAĞAÇ | BU ARADA, Darağaç, İzmir
CYANOTYPE IMPRESSIONS: THE FOOTSTEPS OF THE FIRST PHOTOBOOK, Tophane-i Amire Tek Kubbe Gallery, Istanbul
DETAIL, BLOK art space, Istanbul
DIGITAL OBSCURA (Granted for “NO8 Awards” First Prize), “ARTIST 2015/25th International Art Fair”, Istanbul
ROOM TO ROOM, Tophane-i Amire Cistern Galleries, Istanbul
AKBANK CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS PRIZE EXHIBITION (Nomination), Akbank Sanat, Istanbul
PUMP UP THE VALUE, Atelier Zaandam, Netherlands
OMWEG ZUIDPLEIN, Zuidplein, Rotterdam
NO MORE LUGGAGE, Tophane-i Amire Cistern Galleries, Istanbul
THE LIQUID CONTINENT, Bibliotecha Alexandrina, Alexandria
Contribution, Curation
AND THE DAYS BEGAN TO WALK: Serap Tok’s Monographic Exhibition (Curation), KARANTİNA Mekan, İzmir
EVOLVE: Insert Project for the Catalogue, Galeri A, İzmir
NSK STATE PAVILION: As A Delegate, 57th Venice Biennale 2017, Palazzo Ca’Tron, Venice
Presentation, Lecture
WALKING WITNESSING: ÇAMDİBİ PROJECT 2014–2015, (Presentation, Lecture), University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki
THE NEW NORMAL PHOTOGRAPHY ARCHIVE: IN THE CONTEXT OF THE IMAGE OF DESTRUCTION AND URBANSCAPES IN CONTEMPORARY TURKISH PHOTOGRAPHY, (Presentation, Statement), Photography Department, Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Istanbul
THE FORMATION OF ART POTENTIALS IN THE URBAN PERIPHERY OF RUINED CITIES: DARAĞAÇ IMPRESSIONS, 2016–2020, (Presentation, Statement), Photography Department, Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Istanbul
NEGATIVE SPACE: BETWEEN ANTHROPOLOGY AND PHOTOGRAPHY: Lecture, Artist Talk, Anthropology Department, Istanbul University
THE PROJECT AND ÇAMDİBİ OR ‘THE ÇAMDİBİ PROJECT’, Kendine Ait Bir Oda, Basmane, İzmir
Workshop, Residency
RESOURCE UTOPIA, (Long-Term Photography and Video Workshop), Tasarım Atölyesi Kadıköy, Istanbul
AirBayrampaşa, (Two Weeks Short-Term Artist Residency), PASAJist, Istanbul
FROM A BODY OF WORK TO THE RIGHT BOOK: Photobook Workshop, FUAM: Photography Research and Application Center, Istanbul
BEYOND SPACE: LOOKING AT RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN ARTWORK AND SPACE, Photography Department, Mimar Sinan University of Fine Arts, Istanbul
THE LIQUID CONTINENT, Alexandria, Egypt
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