Melike Kara is a contemporary artist who works in painting, sculpture and photography. Her practice is based on a critical engagement with displacement, marginalization and cultural exclusion, seeking to foreground narratives that are often absent from dominant histories.
Drawing inspiration from Kurdish tapestries, Kara reinterprets their patterns and material memory into gestural abstract paintings. Instead of citing tradition, he translates it into a contemporary visual language that intertwines personal and collective stories.
His works transform inherited motifs into sites of resistance and affirmation, where abstraction becomes a means of regaining visibility and agency.
Kara has exhibited widely at major international institutions, including MO.CO. Montpellier, SCHIRN Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Kunsthalle Zürich, Kunstverein Düsseldorf, Museum De Fundatie (Zwolle), WIELS (Brussels) and Yuz Museum (Shanghai). She also participated in the 58th Carnegie International in Pittsburgh. Through her work, Kara creates powerful visual spaces where cultural memory, abstraction and lived experience intersect in acts of reflection and celebration.
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