Ambidextrous Group Show ™

Alexa von Arnim

Alexa von Arnim is a German-French-American photographer and visual consultant. Growing up traveling the world to visit her multicultural family, collecting Souvenirs in all their forms has always been part of her identity. Living with the inner restlessness of cosmopolitan roots, travel became more of a home than staying in one place.

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Alp Erdem Öz

Born in 1988 in Istanbul, Turkey, Alp Erdem Öz earned a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2013, followed by an MFA from Pratt Institute. By the use of different paint applications, various speeds and compositional breaks as means of expression, Öz sets up conditions for a narrative. His attempt is to make a painting that is in the state of becoming. He refers to a collection of photographs and found imagery before making any moves. In this sense, all paintings start as representational, but as soon as he starts painting he puts the source aside. The process becomes reactionary. Rags, stencils, squeegee, sanding paper and his hands are as valid tools as brushes and palette knives.

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Ayda Demirci

Ayda Demirci is a painter based in Istanbul. Her practice is shaped by her view of painting as a continuous process of research and discovery. She works to create abstract compositions in her paintings. Her focus is always on painting; she is interested in constructing images and expressions independent of an idea or narrative. Demirci’s paintings are exactly ‘what you see’. Ambidexter has presented her two solo exhibitions, 35 Paintings and Two.

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Ayşe Kırca

Ayşe Kırca graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in acting from New York Film Academy in 2015. Upon graduating she has decided to pursue her career in the fine arts along with acting. Her first exhibition was the “Summer Love” at EkavArt Gallery. As an artist she is telling a story about the point where perception of beauty has come nowadays. Through her monkey figures she emphasizes the phrase “to become a monkey” and plays on the idea of reverse human evolution. She is aiming to bring awareness to the sense of beauty, and the beauty within thyself.

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David Doğan Levi

As a multidisciplinary artist, he graduated from Plastic Arts at Paul Valery University in Montpellier, France, in 2016. During his university years, his fascination with the intersection of philosophy, psychology, and art led him to explore innovative painting techniques using self-made brushes and tools. Back in Istanbul, his homeland, in his studio, he maintains a steadfast focus on painting organic forms and incorporating photography. His work defies easy categorization, residing in the realm between abstract and figurative, as he continues to push the boundaries of artistic expression.

The repetition of the technique he used while preparing this body of work led him to discover new methods, using tools and materials he created himself. In his studio, he remains deeply focused on painting organic forms and producing expressive mono prints. His work resists easy categorization, existing somewhere between abstraction and figuration, as he continues to challenge the limits of artistic expression.

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Ece Özel

Born and raised in Istanbul, Ece Özel studied painting at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University. She worked as a fashion stylist for nearly fifteen years and continues to perform as an active DJ around the world.

Her work explores the dynamics between the human body and fragments of life, searching for points where personal memories meet subtle, ambient memory. She is interested in how these traces shape our sense of presence and identity.

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Gaspar Martinez

Gaspar Martinez (b. 1982) was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He received education and worked in Argentina. In addition to Argentina, he has participated in numerous solo exhibitions, group exhibitions, and art fairs internationally in various European countries and the United States. He has held solo exhibitions at the Cosmocosa Gallery in Buenos Aires and the Argentine Consulate. His works have also been exhibited at El Mirador in Buenos Aires; Charles Banks Gallery in New York; Centotto Gallery in New York; BOS Gallery in Dublin; Bow Industrial Park in London; and Ambidexter Gallery in Istanbul. Martinez currently lives and works in London, United Kingdom.

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Mark Hale

Mark Hale was born in Izmir in 1984, studied Printmaking and Graphic Design at Anadolu University, and participated in international exchange programs at Accademia di Belle Arti di Palermo and San Diego State University. He completed his master’s in Animation and Illustration at Prague Academy of Architecture, Art & Design. He has been living in Istanbul since 2012.

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Murat Burhanoğlu

Murat Burhanoğlu, born in Istanbul and based in Amsterdam, is a painter whose practice revolves around monochromatic landscapes and the gestures of entities and animals that inhabit our world. His visual language draws on archaic rawness, ruins, and palaces. Artist’s first solo exhibition, Black Sun (2019), and his second, Order of the House (2023), were both within Ambidexter Gallery. His paintings are featured annually at major art fairs such as Contemporary Istanbul, and he has participated in group exhibitions in Istanbul, Izmir and Chios, Greece.

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Oğulcan Kuş

Oğulcan Kuş (1993) is an Istanbul-based artist and graduate of Marymount Manhattan College with a degree in Studio Arts and Communications. Having immersed himself in the New York art scene for six years, working with institutions such as MoMA PS1, Oğulcan’s artistic exploration primarily revolves around geometric precision, and cartoon-like fgures, especially hands adorned with white gloves. Inspired by his experience as an art handler, these gloves have evolved into dynamic elements, adding an intriguing layer of mystery and symbolism to his work. Recently, Kuş has been experimenting with expanding his practice into the third dimension through manipulation of canvases and introducing new materials like wood. His art is a captivating blend of tradition and innovation, rigidity and whimsy, inviting viewers into a world of perpetual exploration.

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Oğulcan Sürmeli

Oğulcan Sürmeli (b. 1995) graduated with honors from Işık University’s Department of Plastic Arts in 2018. In the same year, he participated in the Akbank Contemporary Artists Prize Exhibition and was featured in the Honor Graduates Exhibition of the Turkish Council of Fine Arts Faculties. As an artist who experiments with guerrilla art methods in public spaces, he aims to break thought patterns embedded in collective memory and the discourses that reinforce them through irony.

Sürmeli conceived his art as an inner realm of thought where honesty is liberated from constraints.

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Özge Çokgezen

Özge Çokgezen received education in art history and contemporary art practices in Florence, New York, and Istanbul. After completing art degrees at Pera Fine Arts High School, Istanbul Technical University, and Beykent University, they further focused on contemporary art practices.

They accepted the position of Art Director at bang. Art Innovation Prix, where they led the digital art and innovation program until 2018. They have published articles in both print and digital media. Their works have been commissioned by private collectors, including exhibitions and entire collections. In 2023, they held their first solo exhibition titled “Synthetic Identity” at Ambidexter Gallery.

Since 2023, they have continued their practice in Barcelona, exploring the concept of “post-truth” alongside the theme of “Identity,” while also experimenting with “non-space” concepts.

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Rosalie Aleksandra Anter

Born in Istanbul in 1996, raised in the United States, Rosalie Aleksandra seeks to understand concepts of roots, identity, persona, communication and connection between one another. Spending her childhood in a warm and loving community, and then moving into a more individualized, independent manner of connection, she learned to expand within the freedom while also yearning for the intimacy of her past life.

Studying interdisciplinary fine arts at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts, Rosalie Aleksandra dabbled in a wide array of media from photography to sculpture to drawing. Questioning what it is to draw or what it is to make, she became interested in the process itself, and in creating a softer line between the art and the viewer.

Having participated in exhibitions around the world including the US, Israel, Turkey, and an art fair in Saatchi Gallery in London, ‘Living Room / Salon’ at Arthan Gallery, Istanbul marks her first solo show.

“The work is about the human fight to be, to feel, and to release. Essentially it’s a portrait of a human’s, a young woman’s, state of aloneness and tenderness in response to the stimulation and events of the outer world. Almost like the penetration of a tree by outer forces and how the tree responds to the strokes or happenings around it, I respond to the world through my pieces. “

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Sedat Ayhan

Sedat Ayhan (İzmir, 1987) graduated from Dokuz Eylül University, Faculty of Fine Arts. Inspired by history and combining the tradition of multi-figure painting with the basiccomponents of abstraction, the artist aims to create new perceptual problems about the visible by challenging the possibilities of figurative form. Compositions shaped by instinctive gestures and unplanned shaping constitute the artist’s production practice.

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Selin Uyar

Selin Uyar (b. 1997, Bursa) is an abstract expressionist painter working primarily in oil on canvas. A graduate of Central Saint Martins, her work focuses on movement, transformation, and the structural possibilities of gestural abstraction. Through layered brushstrokes and shifts in composition, she explores the relationship between form, space, and material.

Her paintings emphasize the physicality of paint and process, incorporating simple yet undefinable marks that create a dynamic interplay between control and spontaneity. The use of diaristic titles introduces a textual element, adding context without imposing fixed interpretations.

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Simla İçeli

Simla İçeli was born in Adana, in 2000. She studied Painting and Visual Arts at NABA, Milan. She briefly did an internship as a cultural mediator at Triennale Museum. She participated in various exhibitions such as the graduation show at Otto Zoo, Rea Fair at Fabbrica del Vapore, Troubled Waters by Rea Fair, Ambidextrous Group Show, Istanbul. She then completed a residency; Uncool Artist, New York. She currently works and lives in Istanbul.

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Zeynep Aslanoba

Zeynep Aslanoba, a multidisciplinary artist, graduated from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s BFA Program in 2018. Her creative process is rooted in the concept of play, and her works are a representation of this idea. Aslanoba employs various mediums, including painting, sculpture/installation, stop-motion animation, music videos and writing, to convey narratives infused with dark humor. Her work delves into themes such as pop culture, psychology, mythology, humor, and the human experience. Through an engaging approach to thoughtprovoking storytelling, she invites the audience to refect on the intricacies of the human soul and the interplay between tradition and contemporary life.

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