Ozan Turkkan (b. 1980) is a Vienna-based new media artist whose practice explores the intersection of art, science, and technology. Through generative systems, artificial intelligence, and immersive media, his work examines the impermanence of experience and the shifting architecture of perception in a data-driven culture. He is co-founder of NODE Media Lab, a Vienna-based non-profit research and production platform dedicated to interdisciplinary work in new media art, and Head of the Immersive Lab and Digital Production within the Department of Digitale Kunst (Digital Art) at the Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien (dieAngewandte), where he leads the development of immersive media, digital art production, and artistic research.
Turkkan’s practice explores the underlying geometric principles of nature and the invisible systems that shape perception, behaviour, and technological culture. Through generative computation and artificial intelligence, he traces how mathematical structures recur across living organisms, physical processes, and computational systems, revealing a shared organisational logic that connects the natural and the artificial.
Across large-scale installations, immersive environments, and generative digital works, Turkkan translates these principles into light, sound, movement, and computational processes. His works reveal hidden relationships between natural phenomena, human perception, and machine intelligence, while recent projects explore artificial intelligence as a creative material through which questions of agency, emergence, and authorship can be examined.
Recurring geometric structures form the foundation of Turkkan’s artistic language. Drawing on fractal systems, sacred geometry, and processes of emergence, his work invites audiences to reconsider the invisible patterns that shape both natural systems and contemporary technological culture.
Rooted in a multidisciplinary artistic background, Turkkan’s practice has evolved across fine arts, multimedia, and computational media. Developed through studies and professional work in Philadelphia, Salamanca, and Barcelona, his approach brings together artistic, scientific, and technological perspectives. He holds a degree from the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Salamanca and a Master’s in Multimedia from BAU (Escola Superior de Disseny, Universitat Central de Catalunya), Barcelona, where he lived and worked for many years before relocating to Vienna.
His work has been presented internationally at institutions including Museo Reina Sofía (Madrid), Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci (Prato/Florence), Ars Electronica (Linz), Lincoln Center (New York), Santral Istanbul, Akbank Art Centre (Istanbul), LOOP Barcelona, Europalia Festival (Brussels), Les Brigittines (Brussels), Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade, WUK Vienna, Künstlerhaus Bregenz, Victoria House (London), Rotterdamse Schouwburg (Rotterdam), Banannefabrik (Luxembourg), and Santa Monica Art Centre (Barcelona), among others.
– “Waltz and Bass”, Mix Reality Visual Compositions, Konzerthaus Vienna, September 2025
– “Lumina”, 3D Video Mapping/Installation, Art on Cars, Galata Port, Istanbul, September 2025
– “Bridges”, Video Installation, Noise Media Art Festival, Istanbul, September 2025
– “Apsu”, Video Installation, Contemporary Istanbul 2025
– “Arura”, Video Installation, Biennale of Environmental Art 2025, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
– “Flora”, Video Installation, Biennale of Environmental Art 2025, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
– “Arura_v1”, Video Installation, Noise Media Art Festival, Vienna, September 2024
– “Flora y Fauna”, Solo Exhibition, Levels Gallery Berlin, 6 – 14 April 2024
– “Flora”, Video Installation, Zifergauz Digital Arts Centre, Saint Petersburg, 22 Aug 2024– 22 Jan 2025
– “Apsu”, Video Installation, Sevil Dolmacı Gallery Dubai, 1-20 February 2024
– “Arura”, Video Installation, Künstlerhaus Palais Thurn und Taxis, Bregenz, Austria, 2 Dec 2023 – 7 Jan 2024
– “Apsu”, Video Installation, Sevil Dolmacı Gallery Dubai, 1-20 February 2024
– “Arura”, Video Installation, Künstlerhaus Palais Thurn und Taxis, Bregenz, Austria, 2 Dec 2023 – 7 Jan 2024
– “Apsu”, Video Installation, İzmir Resim Heykel Müzesi Tarih ve Sanat Galerisi, Turkiye, 28 Oct – 28 Nov 2023
– “Apsu”, Video Installation, Istanbul Innovation Week, 3 – 5 Nov 2023
– “Arura”, Solo Exhibition, NODE Media Lab, Vienna Art Week, 10-17 NOV 2023
– “Arura”, Video Installation, Lisbon Art Weekend, 2023
– “Atlas Angewandte”, Interactive Video Installation/Data Visualisation, Parallel Vienna, 5-10 September 2023
– “Bridges”, Video Installation, Fisekhane Cocoon, Contemporary Istanbul Foundation, 12 Jan – 12 Mar 2023
– “Arura”, Video Installation, Akbank Art Centre Istanbul, 7 Dec 2022 – 11 Feb 2023
– “Arura”, Video Installation, Istanbul Innovation Week, 2022
– “Arura”, Solo Exhibition, OrtON Gallery, Istanbul, 25 Oct – 10 Dec 2022
– “Fractals”, Solo Exhibition, Zifergauz Digital Arts Centre, Saint Petersburg, 10 Aug – 30 Sept 2022
– “Arura v01”, Video Installation, “Fraktal” Exhibition, Metro Han, Istanbul, 5 – 30 June 2022
– “Arura v01”, Video Installation, ArtOn Gallery, Contemporary Istanbul Bloom 2022
– “Micro Flow”, Video Installation, Akbank Sanat FastZ Istanbul, 2022
– “trans_form v3”, Video Installation, Akbank Art Centre, Istanbul, 2022
– “trans_form v3”, Video Installation, Group exhibition “To the Tomorrow’s Accelerated World”, Yıldız Technical University Davutpaşa Campus, Historical Hammam, Istanbul, 02-30 Nov 2021
– “trans_form v1”, VR Exhibition, Ars Electronica, Concrete House .art, 2021
– “trans_form v2”, Video Installation, Zorlu Center, Istanbul, 2020
– “Fractal Body 03”, Art on Screen, MixerArts, Istanbul, 2020
– “Fractal Body 01”, SIMULAKRA, Metaspace(VR) by Decol, Istanbul, 2020
– “Fractal Body 03”, Screening, Step Istanbul, Istanbul, 2020
– “Verum Corpus” VR and Video Installation,Lisbon Art Weekend, 2020
– “Common Stage: Flow 02″, Data Abstraction/Video Installation, Angewandte Festival Vienna, 2019
– “Animum Fractum”, VR and Video Installation, MUSRARA MIX, Jerusalem / 28-30 May 2019
– “Animum Fractum, VR and Video Installation, Fotogalerie Wien WUK, Vienna / 2019
– “Verum Corpus”, Fabrikraum Kultur und Kunstverein, Vienna, 06.11.2019 – 21. 11. 2019
– “Verum Corpus”, Künstlerhaus 1050, Vienna, 2018
– “Verum Corpus” VR and Video Installation, Bilsart, Istanbul, 2018
– “Common Stage”, Solo Exhibition, Galerie Mekan68 Vienna, 2018
– “Verum Corpus”, Solo Exhibition, Akbank Sanat, Contemporary Istanbul 2017
– “Resurrection”, Digital print installation, SCOPE New York, USA, 2017
– “Resurrection”, Digital print installation, SCOPE Miami Beach, USA, 2017
– “Substance” VR Installation, Heterotopia, REM Art Space Istanbul, 2017
– “Fractum Regnum”, Solo Exhibition, ArtON Gallery Istanbul, 2017
– Plug-In New Media Section, Contemporary Istanbul, ArtON Gallery, 2016
– “f-strings”, Audiovisual installation, Auropalia Festival Belgium, 2016
– “fractal body”, Audiovisual installation, Auropalia Festival Belgium, 2016
– “f-strings”, Audiovisual installation, FORMLESS Fluid reality in new media art. Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade, 2015
– “f-strings”, Audiovisual installation, Loop Festival Barcelona, 2015
– “Well”, Interactive video/sound installation, “Waves” new media exhibition, Blok Art Space, Istanbul, 2014
– “Fractal Body”, Video Installation, Chantiere Art House, Bruxelles, Belgium, 2014
– Plug-In, Video and Print Installations, Contemporary Istanbul 2014
– “Bipolar Fractal”, Video Installation, 42 Maslak Lunch Video Exhibition, Contemporary Istanbul, 2014
– “Hyper-d”, Video Installation, 42 Maslak Lunch Video Exhibition, Contemporary Istanbul, 2014
– “Bipolar Fractal” Video Screening, CologneOff, Torrance Museum, LA, USA, 2014
– “Bipolar Fractal” Video Screening, CONTRA Art Fair, London, 2014
– “Curving Time”, Digital prints installation, CONTRA Art Fair, London, 2014
– “Versions”, TROIS C-L, Banannefabrik, Luxembourg, 2014
– “Versions”, Dance and new media collaboration, Maison des Cultures de Molenbeek, Bruxelles, Belgium, 2014
– Adobe Creative Cloud Mosaic Project, Lincoln Center, NY, USA, 2014
– “Fractal Body”, Holographic video installation, Contemporary Istanbul, 2014
– “Formless”, Fluid reality in New Media Art, Enerji Museum, Santral Istanbul, 2014
– “Micro Flow Cube”, interactive installation, Mixer Gallery, İstanbul. 2014
– “Bipolar Fractal”, Video Installation, Açıkekran new media arts gallery, Istanbul, 2013
– “Curving Time”, Interactive Video Installation, GRID/Plug-In New Media Section, Contemporary Istanbul, 2013
– “Curving Time”, Digital prints installation, GRID/Plug-In New Media Section, Contemporary Istanbul, 2013
– “Resurrection”, Digital Print Installation, Istanbul INN LONDON, Victoria House, London, 2013
– “Curving Time”, Digital Print Installation, Istanbul INN LONDON, Victoria House, London, 2013
– SNAPSHOT ISTANBUL, Video screenings, Rotterdams Schowbourg, 2012
– Art Market Budapest, Video screenings, Budapest, 2012
– Blank Exhibition, Augmented reality exhibition, Contemporary Istanbul, 2012
– “Curving Time”, Interactive video installation, The Empire Gallery, Istanbul, 2012
– “Impudence of good intent” Art Sümer Gallery, Istanbul, 2012
– “Resurrection: Fractal Continuum”, Solo Exhibition, Hush Gallery, Istanbul, 2012
– “Fractal Dimensions”, Solo exhibition, IAP, Istanbul Art Platform, Istanbul, 2011
– “Fractal Dimensions”, Gallery Mitte de Barcelona, Spain, 2011
– “Hyper-d”, Video installation, Elgiz Museum of Contemporary Art, 12th Istanbul Biennial, 2011
– “Alfa Omega Alfa”, Video screening, Punto y Raya Festival, Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid, 2011
– “Alfa Omega Alfa”, Video screening, SIMULTAN Festival 2011, Timisoara, Romania, 2011
– “Identity in motion”, Video Screening, International Video Festival VIDEOMEDEJA, Museum of Contemporary Art, Novi Sad, Serbia, 2010
– “Art Exhibit”, Coimbra University, Portugal, 2010
– Los Vecinos”, Video Screening, One Minute Video Festival, Abstract Section, Amsterdam, 2010
– “What if I had made the other choice?”, Video screening, Videominuto 2010, One of the 10 finalists of the contest “Diary from the age of permanent present”. Centro per l’arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Florance, 2010
– Video Screening, Guantanamo Museum Exhibition, Santa Monica Art Centre, Barcelona, Spain, 2008