Mustafa Boğa
Based in Adana, Turkey and London, England / mubogga@hotmail.com / www.mustafaboga.com
Education
2014-2016: Central Saint Martins, MA Fine Art, London
2009-2010: Greenwich University, MA Cinematography and Post Production, London
2003-2009: Istanbul University, Faculty of Communication, Journalism, Istanbul/Turkey
2000-2002: Harran University, Vocational Collage of Higher Education, Radio&TV Broadcasting, Urfa/Turkey
Solo Shows
2024 - Displaced Memories, Gulden Bostancı Gallery, Antalya, Turkey
2023 - Looking for the warm spot in a swimming pool, Kun Art Space, Adana, Turkey
2022 - All the things I don't want t hear from a politician, Martch Art Project, Istanbul, Turkey
2022 - Wild Flowers, Seven9three Gallery, London, UK
2021 - Because ours could be the beginning of a beautiful fairy tale dreamed of for years, Bilsart, İstanbul, Turkey
2021 - The Foundation Ceremony/Temel Atma Töreni, are Projects, Antalya, Turkey
2020 - There He Is Without A Proper Diagnosis, LOA Gallery, London, UK
2019 - The Landscape of Perpetual Flags, Casa dell’Arte, Lisbon, Portugal
2018 - Army Time Memoir, Curated by Roshanak Khakban, The Emerging Artists Gallery, London, UK
2017 - There He Is Without A Proper Diagnosis, Peckham Pelican, London, UK
Duo Shows
2018 - When it is not Spontaneous, Collaboration with Kolbrún Inga Söring, Sagacity, Brussels, Belgium
2017 - Story Provided If Wanted, with Kolbrún Inga Söring - Listastofan Gallery, Reykjavik, Iceland
2017 - Red Never Apologies For Being Red - with Kolbrun Inga Soring – SIOUSIOU Studios, Berlin, Germany
Selected Group Shows
2024 - NAE Open, New Art Exchange, Nottingham, UK
2024 - Old Walls, New Art, UKNA, Derby, UK
2024 - Collectors – Artists, Ferda Art Platform, İstanbul, Turkey
2024 - Artweeks Akaretler with Kun Art Space, İstanbul, Turkey
2024 - Art Show: Galleries United with Martch Art Project, Istanbul, Turkey
2023 - Pretty Doom with qap.digital at Ugly Duck, London, UK
2023 - Contemporary Istanbul with Martch Art Project, Istanbul, Turkey
2023 - From another world, Gazhane Museum, İstanbul, Turkey
2023 - Slow down, Touch and Feel, Turkish Textile Biennial, İzmir, Turkey
2023 - It doesn't matter until it does, Martch Art Projects, Istanbul, Turkey
2023 - Lucid Dreams, Art Exchange, Essex, UK
2023 - I wish I was there, Gri Space, Ayvalık, Turkey
2022 - Just One Bite, Giswil Performance Festival, Giswil, Switzerland
2022 - Contemporary Istanbul with Martch Art Projects, Istanbul, Turkey
2022 - Make Art for Peace, Glazed Galery-Fisekhane, Istanbul, Turkey
2022 - Otherness for Senkron Exhibition at Martch Art Projects, İstanbul, Turkey
2022 - Artweeks Akaretler with Martch Art Projects, İstanbul, Turkey
2022 - Leicester City Take Over, Attenborough Art Centre, Leicester, UK
2021 - Don't Look Back, Deep is the Past, Odunpazarı Modern Museum, Eskişehir, Turkey
2021 - Contemporary Istanbul with Martch Art Projects, Istanbul, Turkey
2021 - London Art Biennale, Chelsea Old Town Hall, London, UK
2021 - Pek Yakında/Coming Soon for Senkron Exhibition at are Projects, Antalya, Turkey
2021 - Screening of Blowing your Cover or something like that, Performance Art Bergen, Norway
2021 - Screening of Blowing your Cover or something like that, Terrarista TV, Frankfurt, Germany
2020 - Mythological Migrations: Imagining Queer Muslim Utopias Curated by Abdullah Qureshi, Helsinki, Finland
2020 - Breathing Out of School curated by RAW Academie, Bétonsalon, Paris, France
2020 - Life, Interrupted Curated by Tugba Tirpan, SEAS Gallery, Brighton, UK
2020 - Turkish Delight Symposium, Performative Talk Curated by Queer Art Projects, London, UK
2020 - Isolation Mastered, JD Malat Gallery, London, UK
2020 - State of Existence Curated by Tugba Tirpan, SEAS Gallery, Brighton, UK
2020 - Wild Wild Æst, Organised by Æther, The Hague, Netherlands
2020 - Opencreek Show night, Museum Angewandte Kunst. Frankfurt, Germany
2019 - Performance, Testimony, Performance Reihi Neu-Oerliken, Zurich, Switzerland
2019 - State of Existance, Well Space Community, London, UK
2019 - A Field to Getting Lost, Anesis Cinema, Aegina, Greece.
2019 - Bodies in Alliance / Bodies in Defiance, Monitor/Rotor2, Göteborg, Sweden
2019 - Performance, Testimony, Space (BYOP), London, UK
2019 - ThirdBase Art Residency end show, Lisbon, Portugal
2019 - Silkworms (Photo Performance) ArtAnkara Art Fair, Ankara, Turkey
2018 - Germination, Part Courts, Raw Material Company, Dakar, Senegal
2018 - Performance Curated by Elizabeth Coleman-Link, Kunstverein Familie Montez, Frankfurt, Germany
2018 - Missing Element, Hosted by Agora Art Circle, Wandsworth Arts Fringe, Art Lacuna, London, UK
2018 - Every me / Her Bir Ben, Martch Art Projects, Istanbul, Turkey
2018 - Ashurt Emerging Artist Prize Shortlist Exhibition, The Emerging Artists Gallery, London, UK
2018 - Performance, SUPERMARKET Art Fair, Stockholm, Sweden
2018 - Sawt (2a): Qala 0.8900 @Satellite, Dubai, UAE
2018 - Performance, ArtAnkara Art Fair, Ankara, Turkey
2018 - River In An Ocean, Lahore Biennale, Lahore, Pakistan
2018 - Transcending species, Transcending gender, Transcending nations, Deptford Cinema, London, UK
2017 - To Play, Curated by Pathfinders, Hosted by Sagacity, Brussels, Belgium
2017 - Every Me / Ben Tanıdık Bir Yabancı, London, UK
2017 - The Intimacy of Banality, KEX Studios, Reykjavík, Iceland
2017 - AiR Competition - Summer Group Show, The Muse at 269 - Gallery / Studio, London, UK
2017 - Process Space Art Festival, Russe, Bulgaria
2017 - Platform Projects, Independent Art Fair, Athens
2017 - Antennae, Lubomirow/Angus-Hughes Gallery, London
2017 - Affordable Art Fair Hampstead, Made In Arts, London
2017 - Red Mansion Foundation Art Prize Exhibition, Kendrew Barn, Oxford, UK
2016 – Hiding In Plain Sight, Mori&Stein Gallery, London, UK
2016 – Act of Searching Closely, ASC Gallery, London, UK
2016 - No Way Out, Red Gate Studios, Beijing, China
2016 - SHE, Exploring The Construct of Femininity, Ugly Duck, Tanner Street, London, UK
2016 - #32 Annual Open, CGP Gallery, London, UK
2016 - SELF/CONTROL, Co-Thinking About Future, Punctum Gallery, London, UK
2016 – DO, UNDO, REDO, Degree Show-Central Saint Martins, The Crossing, London, UK
2016 - Part of Us, Auction and Exhibition, Central Saint Martins, London, UK
Fellowships and Funds
2020 - Participant of Deconstruction: Art and Ecology curated by Art Elsewhere and Are, London, UK
2020 - Freelands Foundation Emergency Fund, a-n The Artists Information Company, London, UK
2018 - Academy Session 5 GERMINATION run by Otobong Nkanga at RAW Material Company, Dakar, Senegal
2017 - Scholarship for the project called ‘Story provided if wanted’ Listastofan Gallery, Reykjavik, Iceland
Awards
2021 - Winner of project fund open call, Bilsart, İstanbul, Turkey
2018 - Awarded for The Ashurst Emerging Artist Prize as ‘Highly Commended Artist’, London, UK
2017 - Shortlisted for AiR Competition Studio Award, The Muse at 269 - Gallery / Studio, London, UK
2016 - Winner of Red Mansion Art Prize, UK/China
Residencies
2023 - Wirksworth Art Festival Residency, Derby, England
2023 - Air Kvitbrakka, Berlevag, Norway
2022 - AIR Sandnes, Norway
2022 - Martch Arts Projects Residency, Ayvalık, Turkey
2021 - Viborg Kunsthal Riddergade, Viborg, Denmark
2019 - ThirdBase Art Residency, Lisbon, Portugal
2018 - Montez Performance Residency, Kunstverein Familie Montez, Frankfurt, Germany
2018 - Sagacity Residency, Brussels, Belgium (Collaboration with Kolbrún Inga Söring)
2018 - HighHouse Residency, Norfolk, UK (Collaboration with Kolbrún Inga Söring)
2017 - Artist In Residence, Process Space Art festival, Russe, Bulgaria
2017 - Studio Residency, Micro Nation: The Forth Culture Residency, SIOUSIOU Studios, Berlin, Germany