Gözde Mimiko Türkkan (1984, Turkey) is an artist who mostly produces videos, photography series, artist’s books and textual and performative works, focusing on connecting to/through the body and transcending the body. Following a BA degree in Photography & Video from Istanbul Bilgi University in 2008, Mimiko received her MA Fine Art degree in the University of the Arts London, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in 2010.
The first decade of her practice focused on gender roles and socially constructed identities through a subjective documentary approach. For the past five years she has been working towards exploring the expression of the inner flow — ‘innergy’, an amalgam of inner and energy — in human bodies and water-bodies. By conducting a primarily visual and bodily experience-based artistic research and drawing connections between constructed binaries and dichotomies, she questions global narratives about gender roles, identities and more recently about global narratives on climateclimate and ocean emergencies with a multidisciplinary approach, aiming for creating a disturbance of predisposed personal and social structures.
In addition to solo shows in Turkey, France and Geneva, she participated in group exhibitions, screenings and fairs in Germany, Sweden, Spain and The Netherlands. Mimiko is the founder of SyncSociety, a phygital art network which creates and propagates content for the visibility of artists and the co-founding member of BOMOVU, The Network of Sport and Body Movement for Vulnerable Groups.
Gözde Mimiko Türkkan lives and works in Istanbul.