Başak Kaptan

Başak Kaptan was born in 1978 in İzmir. She graduated from Bilkent Uni-versity,
Faculty of Fine Arts, Design and Architecture, Department of Fine Arts, and
completed her MFA in Graphic Design. In 2003, she received DAAD (German
Academic Exchange Service) scholarship and studied at Münster Art Academy
and pursued her artistic work in flm, video and new media feld. In 2004 she
received postdiplome scholarship from Na-tional School of Fine Arts of Lyon
and continued to work and research in contemporary art as a resident artist in
ENBAL. She completed her PhD at Marmara University Faculty of
Communication.She participated in many exhibitions, video screening and
festivals such as: Backyard, REM Art Space (2017), Barcelona Loop Art Fair
(2012),Nomadic Video Festival (2011),Video Patch Work: Cite the City Within You
(2011), Archieve Fe-ver, OPEN FLUX: Videofesta 10. International Media Festival
(2011), Mind Models (2010), Video.it (2009), Truths and Mirages/ Contemporary
Tur-kish Video Art (2008),The Mystery of Enchanted Cars (2008). Her frst solo
show was in 2014, titled as “Perfect Unhappiness” at Videoist in Mardin.