ONUR HASTÜRK “Pleasure Garden”

Date/Time
Date(s) - 13th Apr 2025 - 1st May 2025
All Day

Location
MKM Gallery

Categories

• Exhibitions - Other Artists

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

OPENING RECEPTION: Sunday 13th April from 4-7p
ON VIEW BY APPOINTMENT ONLY

 

 

MKM Gallery presents a new folio from the Treasure Series by Istanbul artist Onur Hastürk, showing a masterful engagement with sixteenth and seventeenth-century illuminated manuscripts and miniature painting. Meticulous in technique, and fluid in its gender imagery, the series Pleasure Garden explores highly stylized depictions of physical pleasures embedded within the floral aesthetics of traditional miniatures.

Onur Hastürk (b. 1983, Mersin, Türkiye) was trained in the traditional art of gilding, Ottoman miniature paintings and Islamic illuminated manuscripts. Hastürk studied art and design at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence, conducted artistic research in New York, and received his Master’s degree from the Department of Fine Arts at Marmara University in Istanbul.

Hastürk’s work has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Istanbul and internationally, including shows in Milan, Rome, Porto, London, Dubai, and Düsseldorf. The artist lives and works in Istanbul.

Solo & Friends exhibitions are dedicated to one single position, accompanied by the entire current ensemble of MKM artists.

Onur Hastürk’s Pleasure Garden (Hasbahçe) is accompanied by works of Maryam Motallebzadeh, Chaza Charafeddine, Benyamin Reich, Ali Kaaf, Željka Mićanović Miljković, Ekin Su Koç, Emin Turan, Elisabeth Masé, Patricia Lambertus, Razan Nassreddine, Alexander Polzin, Chris Newman, Raziye Kubat, Maliheh Afnan, Katharina Karrenberg, Joseph Sassoon Semah, a.o.