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ÇAĞLAR BIYIKOĞLU

ABOUT
Çağlar Bıyıkoğlu, known as “Bıyıkof”, was born in Ankara in 1979. He completed his undergraduate education at Eskişehir Anadolu University, Faculty of Fine Arts, Department of Graphic Design.

After graduating, he worked as an illustrator and art director in advertising agencies, and in 2009, he was named one of the “World’s Best 200 Illustrators” by Lurzer’s Int’l Archive.

In 2013 Bıyıkof felt the need to explore artistic paths, he left advertising to focus on painting and illustration. Since then, he has developed a unique style using both digital and analog techniques, and continues to produce new works in his studio in Istanbul…
Bıyıkof's practice explores themes of imperfection, inner conflict, and existential concerns, often expressed through bold figurations and raw emotional tones.

A two-month trip to Africa, covering eight countries in 2018 and 2019, provided him with new perspectives and inspiration for his art.
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Exhibitions

ART WEEKS XI / Solo Edition
10 April - 14 April 2025
The Ritz-Carlton Residences
İstanbul

Dysto-daisies
with Kerem Ardahan
5 April-20 April 2024
BÜYÜKDERE35
İstanbul
Dysto-daisies are a manifestation of our impressions of an increasingly blurred reality.

When we calmly gaze over a wall at this uncertain landscape, we confront disturbing truths, silenced voices lurking in forgotten corners under the guise of normality.

We embrace images of barren landscapes and mutated creatures, layers upon layers of reality that evoke a sense of loss and despair, as integral to our existence and destruction.

Dysto-daisies offer a heartfelt portrayal of the dystopian dreams that haunt our collective consciousness and convey impressions of post-reality.

Kerem Ardahan x Bıyıkof
Cry Baby
with Kerem Ardahan
13 Now 2021 - 11 Dec 2021
BANTMAG.HAVUZ
BİNA
İSTANBUL
There is a common point of view that we caught while painting together. We begin to look at the different, the unclassified, the unnamed, the undiscovered, the unpatterned, the untouched, the corrupt, the sick, the ugly, the disorderly, the undefined, even the vagabond, the disobedient, the flawed, according to the general definition. We believe that they are a part of our wealth and nature’s wealth.

Painting is an expression tool that allows us to express flaws, fears and all kinds of emotions on the complex and uncertain background of today’s world, where everything is supposed to be perfect. A game that brings us together. This game, which does not need to come to a conclusion, has no winners and embraces uncertainty, turns into a non-linguistic dialogue where we dance arm in arm with worries, fears, restlessness and regrets, and meet at our singular flaws as two people.

Cry Baby; The energy generated by this whole process bears the traces of scratching, shouting, urging, distress and deception.

Kerem Ardahan X Bıyıkof
Slowly Slowly
9 Nov 2019 - 5 Dec 2019
ŞARKÜTERİ
Big Baboli
İSTANBUL
Slowly Slowly consists paintings I made with mostly acrylic paint on canvas between 2011 and 2019.
While drawing these pictures, I tried to use my hands and body, not my mind, as much as possible.
I started from my feelings. Sometimes I attacked with anger, sometimes I touched the canvas with
compassion.
When painting, I can be very gentle, very rude, cowardly or brave. Painting takes me back to my earliest
childhood memories. It makes my actions free and sincere. This excites me. It makes me live.
Pom-Po-Pom
7-18 May 2018
Hey Joe Coffee Co. Gallery
ESKİŞEHİR
I express my inner activities in my paintings and
I want them to look good.

“Popo” means “butt” in turkish. Our butt is like our showcase... It contains our backyard, our strength, our weaknesses.
Pom-po-pom is about the flaws I avoid showing.
It’s about shame, conflicts, dilemmas, boundaries, surrender.
Through these paintings, I started to talk to myself,
to meet, to know myself. I started to accept, hear, listen.
Pom-po-pom is our past, our backyard, our savings.