BIYIKOF
2DÇağlar Bıyıkoğlu (Ankara, 1979), also known as Bıyıkof, received his undergraduate education at the Graphic Design department of Anadolu University, Faculty of Fine Arts. He worked as an illustrator and art director at advertising agencies such as Grey Istanbul, TBWA\Istanbul and Concept. since 2013, he has focused on painting and illustration studies, and since then he has been continuing to draw and paint with both digital and analog materials.
The artist's works are usually the subject of concepts such as weakness, contradiction and conflict. The artist, who does not make any plans when starting a new work, concentrates on his feelings and starts by touching the blank canvas with paint, line, and soiling the canvas. The artist, who feels that this touch is also worth somewhere in itself, is trying to connect with himself on this journey. His touches are sometimes full of anger and violence, and sometimes full of love and compassion.
Drawing takes him back to the earliest memories of his childhood; he becomes liberated, makes discoveries, encounters difficulties, clashes, confronts, and at the end of the process he becomes better acquainted with himself.
2020, Songs on Top of Bones, mixed exhibition, Eksibir, Istanbul, Turkey
2020, Pulse/Pulse, mixed exhibition, The Circle Space, Istanbul, Turkey
2019, Slowly Slowly, mixed exhibition, BigBaboli Sharpteri, Istanbul, Turkey
2019, Istanbul Comics & Art Festival, mixed exhibition, Ferriye, Istanbul, Turkey
2018, POM-PO-POM, personal exhibition, Hey Joe Coffee. Co. Galleries, Eskisehir, Turkey
2015, Lyrics: Peace Manjo, mixed exhibition, Galatasaray University Culture and Art Center, Istanbul, Turkey
2013, RECURRENCE, mixed exhibition with Free Radicals, Club Küllah, Istanbul, Turkey
2012, Like an Animal, mixed exhibition, Milk Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey
Çağlar Bıyıkoğlu (Ankara, 1979), also known as Bıyıkof, received his undergraduate education at the Graphic Design department of Anadolu University, Faculty of Fine Arts. He worked as an illustrator and art director at advertising agencies such as Grey Istanbul, TBWA\Istanbul and Concept. since 2013, he has focused on painting and illustration studies, and since then he has been continuing to draw and paint with both digital and analog materials.
The artist's works are usually the subject of concepts such as weakness, contradiction and conflict. The artist, who does not make any plans when starting a new work, concentrates on his feelings and starts by touching the blank canvas with paint, line, and soiling the canvas. The artist, who feels that this touch is also worth somewhere in itself, is trying to connect with himself on this journey. His touches are sometimes full of anger and violence, and sometimes full of love and compassion.
Drawing takes him back to the earliest memories of his childhood; he becomes liberated, makes discoveries, encounters difficulties, clashes, confronts, and at the end of the process he becomes better acquainted with himself.
2020, Songs on Top of Bones, mixed exhibition, Eksibir, Istanbul, Turkey
2020, Pulse/Pulse, mixed exhibition, The Circle Space, Istanbul, Turkey
2019, Slowly Slowly, mixed exhibition, BigBaboli Sharpteri, Istanbul, Turkey
2019, Istanbul Comics & Art Festival, mixed exhibition, Ferriye, Istanbul, Turkey
2018, POM-PO-POM, personal exhibition, Hey Joe Coffee. Co. Galleries, Eskisehir, Turkey
2015, Lyrics: Peace Manjo, mixed exhibition, Galatasaray University Culture and Art Center, Istanbul, Turkey
2013, RECURRENCE, mixed exhibition with Free Radicals, Club Küllah, Istanbul, Turkey
2012, Like an Animal, mixed exhibition, Milk Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey
