Residency artists and researchers

Multidisciplinary art

Baran Caginli

Artist

Baran Caginli was born in Istanbul in 1990. The artist who lives and works in Ankara brings together different disciplines in his works.The framework of his works constitute topics related to identity issues such as ethnic discrimination, government / civil relations and related conflicts of power, forced migrants and forced disappearances. Under these topics, most objects and people his have included and use in his works are in the position of witness to an incident. Although these witnesses belong to local problems and realities, they also refer to problems and witnesses in different geographies and in different government. The artist who received the ESSL Art Prize in 2015 has been in various collections as well as  projects at national and abroad.