Gizem Karakaş’ practice focuses on the struggles, ironies, comedy, and poetry of everyday life, often through semi-fictional narratives of individuals navigating interpersonal and context-based relationships. Her photo, video, sound, performance, and text-based works explore the concept of sincerity in relationships through the ambiguous areas left between the intimate and the public, reality and fiction, art, and life. Her creative process embodies collaboration, hospitality, and camaraderie, transforming relationships from mere concepts within her work into an integral part of her methodology.
Ongoing collective processes are central to Karakaş’ practice. She has been a member of the collectives HAH (2017-2020) and Medyartiz since 2011. She has been one of the faces of Hayırlı Evlat since 2017. She was the facilitator of Garp Sessions 2022 along with David Horvitz. She participated in the Arter Research Program from 2020 to 2021, SAHA Studio Residency from 2023 to 2024 and the Can Serrat Residency in Barcelona in 2024.