Art Antwerpen 2025 - Ayşen Kaptanoğlu

Art Antwerp 2025
Featuring Ayşen Kaptanoğlu
December 11–14, 2025
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The desire for collective and personal softness and safety comes through harsh colors on the figurative paintings of Ayşen Kaptanoğlu (Istanbul, 1985), who has just won the Jeanne Oosting Prize 2025. Responding to the chaos of a male-dominant society, the artist uses fantasy and lived experiences to represent the often unutterable anger towards and alienation from the persisting systems of oppression and violence conjured in her. Investigating these unequal power dynamics, the paintings become vessels of these memories and a way to find and instigate resilience. Madé van Krimpen is pleased to present a solo exhibition of the artist at Art Antwerp, honoring the moving and powerful stories, vivid imagination, and unique visual language of Kaptanoğlu. 

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Ayşen Kaptanoğlu (b. Istanbul, Turkey, 1985) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Amsterdam. She studied Italian Language and Literature at Istanbul University before training at Wackers Academy (2016–2021) and attending the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten (2022–2024). Kaptanoğlu has participated in prominent group exhibitions such as the Jeanne Oosting Prijzen Exhibition at Museum MORE and Missing Like a Round Shape at Stedelijk Museum Schiedam (2025). Her recent solo exhibitions include Battlegrounds at Villa De Bank, Enschede, and Cracks, Holes and Roses at Madé van Krimpen, Amsterdam (2025). Her work has been shown internationally at venues including Jean-Claude Maier Gallery, Frankfurt, and Versus Art Project, Copenhagen. She is the recipient of the Jeanne Oosting Prijs (2025) and grants from the Van Den Ende Foundation and Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds, and has completed public commissions such as the 2025 City Archives Drawing Assignment in Amsterdam.

Location
Antwerp Expo
Jan van Rijswijcklaan 191
2020 Antwerp, Belgium
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Opening Day - Thursday 11 December 2025
Preview: 11:00–16:00
Vernissage: 16:00–21:00

Public Days - 11:00–19:00
Friday 12 December 2025
Saturday 13 December 2025
Sunday 14 December 2025