Can Akgümüş (1987-Ankara) Sanat üretiminde malzeme olarak fotoğrafı; görünen gerçekliği kayıt altına alması ve bunun bellek, tarih ve toplum ile olan ilişkileri üzerinden yeniden üretilmesi ile oluşan döngünün bir saptaması olarak kullanıyor. Çeşitli kolaj, pozlama ve tarama teknikleri uygulayarak fotoğrafın sınırlarını araştırırken imge üretimine odaklanıyor. Yapıtlarında hafıza, hatırlama ve unutma pratikleri, yaşamın doğal döngüsü ve bireyler üzerindeki etkilerini mesafeli ve yorumlayıcı gözlemleriyle üretirken kişisel hafızasıyla ortak hafıza arasında yeni ilişki yolları arıyor. İlk solo sergisi “Yutulmuş”, 2016 yılında İstanbul’da Artnivo Project Space’de açıldı. İkinci solo sergisi “Terminal”, 2021 yılında İstanbul’da Kurşunlu Han’da açıldı ve ardından 2022 yılında Ankara'ya, KA’nın sergi mekanına taşındı. Akgümüş, 2022 yılında KAIROS Galeri İstanbul'da Culture Civic Sanatçı Üretim Fonu desteğiyle “Great Dream” adlı üçüncü kişisel sergisini açtı. 2024 yılının başında, Ümmühan Yörük ile birlikte “Zamanın Siluetleri: Kaybolan Yadigârların Geçici Zarafeti” başlıklı bir düet sergiyi Barın Han, İstanbul’da gerçekleştirdi.
Seçili sergileri ve gerçekleştirdiği projeleri arasında “Genç/Yeni/Farklı IV, Galeri Zilberman, İstanbul (2013), 14. İstanbul Bienali Komşu Etkinliği “40 metre, 4 Duvar, 8 Küp”, Zorlu İstanbul (2015), 7. İstanbul Onur Haftası Sergisi “Nerdeen Nereye”, İstanbul (2016), 15. İstanbul Bienali Komşu Etkinliği “Ev”, Müze Evliyagil, Ankara (2017), Odtu Sanat 19 “Yeni Bir Dünya”, Ankara (2018), “Düşünme İkonları: İmgeler ve Metinler”, Müze Evliyagil, Ankara (2018), Nevnesil “Monomit”, Galeri Nev, Ankara (2018), “Saklı”, Derya Yücel Küratörlüğünde, KASA Gallery, Istanbul (2018), “Kürklü Venüs”, Martch Art Project, İstanbul (2019), “Camdan Şato, Müze Evliyagil, Ankara (2020), “COLLIDE ‘22 & ’24: An International Encounter Between Art Professionals & Contemporary Artists”, Collaboration With Kulturakademie Tarabya İstanbul, Goethe Institut Ankara and Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin (2022, 2024), “Reimage: Morning After Dark” KAIROS Gallery, İstanbul (2022), CI BLOOM, İstanbul, (2023), "Perdu et retrouvé", Fransız Kültür, İzmir (2023), 18. Contemporary İstanbul, (2023), 10. Photo London, Londra, (2025) bulunmaktadır. Can Akgümüş Ankara ve İstanbul’da yaşıyor ve çalışıyor.
Can Akgümüş (1987-Ankara) uses photography as a material in his art production as an indication of the cycle created by recording the visible reality and its reproduction over its relations to memory, history, and society. He focuses on image production as he explores the limits of photography by applying various techniques such as collage, exposure, and scanning. While he produces his artwork through his distant and interpretive observations of memory, remembering and forgetting practices, the natural cycle of life, and its effects on individuals, he also seeks new relations between his own memory and collective memory. His first solo exhibition, “Swallowed,” opened in 2016, at Artnivo Project Space in İstanbul. His second solo exhibition, “Terminal,” opened in 2021, Kurşunlu Han in İstanbul, and then in 2022, the exhibition moved to Ankara, KA's exhibition space. Akgümüş opened his third solo exhibition, “Great Dream,” at KAIROS Gallery Istanbul in 2022, with the support of the Culture Civic Artist Production Fund. In early 2024, a duet exhibition with Ümmühan Yörük titled “Silhouettes of Time: The Transient Grace of Vanishing Keepsakes” was held at Barın Han, Istanbul.
Some of his selected exhibitions and projects are: "Young/Fresh/Different IV” Galeri Zilberman, İstanbul (2013), 14. İstanbul Biennial Parallel Event "40 meters, 4 Walls, 8 Cubes" Zorlu İstanbul (2015), 7. İstanbul Pride Week "Who Would Have Thought" İstanbul (2016), 15. İstanbul Biennial Neighbour Event "Home" Evliyagil Museum, Ankara (2017), ODTÜSanat19 "A New World", Ankara (2018), "Icons of Thinking: Images and Texts'' Evliyagil Museum, Ankara (2018), Nevnesil “Monomyth,” Galeri Nev, Ankara (2018), “Venus in Furs,” Martch Art Project, İstanbul (2019), “Crystal Chateau,” Evliyagil Museum, Ankara (2020), “COLLIDE ‘22: An International Encounter Between Art Professionals & Contemporary Artists”, Collaboration With Kulturakademie Tarabya İstanbul, Goethe Institut Ankara and Künstlerhaus Bethanien Berlin (2022), “Reimage: Morning After Dark” KAIROS Gallery, İstanbul (2022), CI BLOOM Contemporary İstanbul (2023), "Perdu et retrouvé", Institut Français, İzmir (2023), 18th Contemporary İstanbul, KAIROS Gallery, İstanbul (2023), 10th Photo London, London, (2025). He lives and works in both Ankara and İstanbul.
Kişisel & Grup Sergiler, Sunumlar
Solo & Group Exhibitions, Presentations
2025, Korbut Flip, KAIROS, İstanbul
2024, The Century of Pera - Prologue: Lost Time, KAIROS, İstanbul
2024, COLLIDE ‘24: An International Encounter Between Art Professionals & Contemporary Artists”, Collaboration With Goethe Institut Ankara, Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin
2024, 3, Group Show, KAIROS, İstanbul
2024, New Lands / Yeni Topraklar, Curated by Necmi Sönmez, Arkas Sanat Alaçatı, İzmir
2024, "Silhouettes of Time: The Transient Grace of Vanishing Keepsakes", Ümmühan Yörük & Can Akgümüş Duo Show, Barın Han İstanbul
2023, "Perdu et retrouvé" Curated by Burçak Yakıcı, Institut Français, İzmir
2023, "Far Near Vol. I, Curated by Derya Yücel, İzmir Painting & Sculpture Museum, İzmir
2023, Mediations Biennale 10th Edition “I Am Another You, You Are Another Me”, Feshane, İstanbul
2023, 18th Contemporary İstanbul, KAIROS Gallery, İstanbul
2023, 1st International Mediterranean Biennial, Tarsus
2023, "don't want to go back home", Curated by Ahmet Ergenç, Feshane İstanbul, İstanbul
2023, CI BLOOM, İstanbul
2022, "GREAT DREAM", Solo Show, KAIROS Gallery, Istanbul
2022, "The Story of Photography: Those Caught Unawarely", TOBB University, Faculty of Architecture and Design
2022, "Art Is The Highest Form Of Hope", Curated by Beral Madra, Evliyagil Museum, Ankara
2022, “Reimage: Morning After Dark”, KAIROS Gallery, Istanbul
2022, Look What I've Brought You: "Reality as mud, as dense as air" Selection, KA, Ankara
2022, “COLLIDE ‘22: An International Encounter Between Art Professionals & Contemporary Artists”, Collaboration With Kulturakademie Tarabya İstanbul, Goethe Institut Ankara and Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
2022, "Terminal", Solo Show, KA, Ankara
2021, "Terminal", Solo Show, Kurşunlu Han, Istanbul
2020, "Crystal Chateau", Evliyagil Museum, Ankara
2019, "Venus In Furs", Match Art Project, Istanbul
2019, “Choose One Master - Nature”, 16th Istanbul Biennial Neighbour Events, Curated by Beral Madra // Evliyagil Dolapdere, Istanbul
2018, “Artists Pick Artist”, ArtSümer Gallery, Istanbul
2018, “The Cut and The Pit”, Uniq Gallery, Istanbul
2018, “Concealed”, Can Akgümüş, Yuşa Yalçıntaş, Zeynep Kayan, Curated by Derya Yücel, KASA Gallery, Istanbul
2018, “The Other Bodies Are Here”, Kova Art Space, Ankara
2018, “MONOMYTH”, Galeri Nev, Ankara
2018, “Icons of Thinking: Images and Texts”, Curated by Beral Madra, Evliyagil Museum, Ankara
2018, “A New World”, ODTUsanat 19, METU, Ankara
2017, “Goes By”, CCSM, Ankara
2017, “Home”, 15th Istanbul Biennial Neighbour Events, Curated by Derya Yücel // Evliyagil Museum, Ankara
2017, “Whose Art History”, Uniq Gallery, İstanbul
2016, “Contemporary Istanbul”, Istanbul
2016, “Contemporary Art Outdoors”, Ströer Kentvizyon & Artnivo, İstanbul
2016, “Who Would Have Thought”, 7th Istanbul Pride Exhibition, Istanbul
2016, “8th Photography Meetings”, ITU Photography Club, Istanbul
2016, “Istanbul Photobook Festival”, FUAM, Istanbul
2016, “Swallowed”, Solo Show, Artnivo, Istanbul
2015, “40 meters 4 walls 8 cubes”, 14th Istanbul Biennial Parallel Events, Zorlu Performing Arts Center, Istanbul
2015, “Lonely and Crowded”, Khas Gallery, Kadir Has University, Istanbul
2014, “Contemporary Istanbul”, Artnivo, Istanbul
2014, “Where am I?”, Kare Gallery, Istanbul
2014, “Download”, Artnivo, Istanbul
2013, “3rd International Bursa Fotofest Dummy Awards”, ‘The Other Bosnia” 1st Prize, Bursa
2013, “Young Fresh Different 4”, Zilberman Gallery, Istanbul
Küratöryel
Curated
2025, Korbut Flip, KAIROS, İstanbul
2024, The Century of Pera - Prologue: Lost Time, KAIROS, İstanbul
2024, COLLIDE ‘24: An International Encounter Between Art Professionals & Contemporary Artists”, Collaboration With Goethe Institut Ankara, Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin
2024, POV, Group Show curated by Can Akgümüş, KAIROS, İstanbul
2023, "The Age of Fire", Çankaya Contemporary Arts Center, Ankara, with the support of the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany
2023, "Homecoming", The Centenary of Modernist Literature event series, KAIROS, İstanbul, Supported by Embassy of Ireland
2022, "Virginia Woolf In Turkey", Co-curated with Mine Özyurt Kılıç & Demet Karabulut Dede, Pera Museum, KAIROS, KOMA İstanbul, Supported by British Council
2022, "The Centenary of Modernist Literature" Co-curated with Mine Özyurt Kılıç, KA Ankara & KAIROS İstanbul, Supported by Embassy of Ireland
2022, "The Thief", Ozan Ölmez Solo Show, Evliyagil Dolapdere, İstanbul
2022, "Teratoma", Metehan Törer Solo Show, Evliyagil Dolapdere, İstanbul
2022, "The View Inside", Ümmühan Yörük Solo Show, Evliyagil Dolapdere, İstanbul
2022, " The Moral", Kazım Şimşek Solo Show, Evliyagil Dolapdere, İstanbul
2022, COLLIDE ‘22: An International Encounter Between Art Professionals & Contemporary Artists”, Collaboration With Kulturakademie Tarabya İstanbul, Goethe Institut Ankara and Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien Berlin
2022, "Devoye", Martch Art Project, İstanbul
2021, "Haunted by Faces, Evliyagil Museum, Ankara
2021, "The Wizard and The Garden, Erimtan Archeology & Art Museum, Ankara
2020, "Crystal Chateau", Evliyagil Museum, Ankara
2019, "Venus In Furs", Match Art Project, Istanbul
2018, “The Cut and The Pit”, Uniq Gallery, Istanbul
2017-2022, ArtOda Exhibitions:
2017, "The Hunt", ArtOda, Evliyagil Museum, Ankara
2018, The Same Garden", ArtOda, Evliyagil Museum, Ankara
2018, "Last Gold Day", Alfa18: Ezgi Ecem Okşin, ArtOda, Evliyagil Museum, Ankara
2019, "Closed Doors", ArtOda, Evliyagil Museum, Ankara
2019, "Possible Worlds", Alfa19: Umut Kambak, ArtOda, Evliyagil Museum, Ankara
2019, "Traces of the Past", ArtOda, Evliyagil Museum, Ankara
2020, "Sacrifices Given to Devoted Pains", Alfa20: Gülşah Akdemir, ArtOda, Evliyagil Museum, Ankara
2020, "Nightswimming", ArtOda, Evliyagil Museum, Ankara
2021, "Organic Relations Network", Alfa21: Özge Yalacak, ArtOda, Evliyagil Museum, Ankara
2022, "The Records of Presence: Performance Archives Video Exhibition", ArtOda, Evliyagil Museum, Ankara