Artist statement & CV
Volkan Dinçer (b.1997, TR) is a multidisciplinary media artist. He studies at Kunst Universitat Linz, Department of Interface Cultures and Sculptural Conceptions & Ceramic. He completed his bachelor degree on painting at Marmara University. He lives and continues his artistic production and research in Linz, Austria.
His works focus on inter-system relations and ecological problems within a research field that spans a wide range, from thermodynamics to cultural materialism. Following these interests, his master’s research focuses on understanding the organization ways of living and non-living systems based on cybernetics and information theories. He often uses natural elements in his works—stone, water, biological organisms—as well as low-level electronics, bringing them together in a conceptual harmony that tells stories about ecological relations and processes in a nonverbal way.
His works has been exhibited internationally, some of them are Ars Electronica Festival, Linz(AT)2025, Cairotronica, Cairo(EG)2025, Pixelpoint media art festival, Nova Gorica(SI)2023, Wallraf-Richartz-Museum and Museum Ludwig ,Cologne, Main Station(DE)2021, Contemporary Istanbul(TR)2021.
Exhibitions
2026 Ne propustite: Art Meets Science, DOTS Gallery (SRB)
2026 Speculum Artium, Devalski dom Trbovlje (SI)
2026 Ars Electronica Festival: Codes[]Rituals (AT)
2026 “Fremdwesen” Film Screening, Raumschiff, Linz(AT)
2025 Ars Electronica Festival: Post-Human Resources (AT)
2024 Rhizomaniacs: Point 48°28′-14°16′ (AT)
2024 Leonardo Laser Linz: Lab Songs vol.I (AT)
2024 BestOFF Sommerfrische (AT)
2023 Pixxelpoint: Life on the grid, Nova Goricia (SI)
2023 BestOFF: Outside In (AT)
2023 Sexponential, Arse Electronica (AT)
2023 Ars Electronica Festival: Resonating Selves (AT)
2023 City & Life Bonvivant (Izmir,TR)
2023 “In The Fragility of Acceptance; Data & Ghosts” KASA Gallery (TR)
2022 Istanbul Digital Art Festival IDAF’22 (TR)
2022 Young Artist Exhibition Museum Gazhane (TR)
2022 One Akaretler (TR)
2021 Contemporary Istanbul 16th Edition (TR)
2021 Şekerbank Openscreen (TR)
2021 BASE21′ (TR)
2021″IEN IMPULSE” Exhibition by Wallraf-Richartz-Museum and Museum Ludwig e.V. (Cologne,DE)
2021 “Mixer Session V” Mixer Gallery (TR)
2021 “OverThinker” TymeLapse Studio
2020 “Volume VI Eco-appetites” Queviring in Quarantine Gallery (AU)
2020 “Sonra” (TR)
2018 “Bitişik” (Marmara University,TR)
Residencies
2023 Istanbul Modern “Young Productions in the Field of Digital Art” (TR)
2022 IKSV Production and research programme/CAP (TR)
2021 “Çek-Yat Film Jam” Filmmaking marathon Nesin Station (Şirince,TR)
2021 Piksel New Media Residency Program (TR)
2021 MisarArt Online Residency (Mardin,TR)
2020 Artigit’I Online Residency (Moscow,RU)
2019 “Locality and Global Discourse” Cooperation with CCA and MÜGSF (Istanbul / SanFrancisco)
Publications
2025 — PopuPress, issue 2: “Mash.” Potato Publishing, Linz, Austria. “Mashed Facts,” p. 42.
2023 — The Arse. Arse Elektronika festival zine, Linz, Austria. “Circuitous Bodies,” p. 14.
2021 — As Yet Untitled, issue 1. Interim Arts, London, UK.
Exhibition and Festival Catalogues
2026 — Fremdwesen. kollektiv querfeldein. “Thanking Reed.”
2026 — Ars Electronica 2026: Negotiating Humanity—Future Begins. Hatje Cantz, Berlin, Germany. “Listening to Calcified,” p. 109. ISBN 978-3-7757-6427-8.
2025 — BestOff 2025. Kunstuniversität Linz, Linz, Austria. “Mouse,” pp. 35–36.
2025 — Ars Electronica 2025: PANIC—yes/no. Hatje Cantz, Berlin, Germany. “Difference: Anatomy of Stone,” p. 128. ISBN 978-3-7757-6083-6.
2023 — Pixxelpoint: Life on the Grid. Kulturni dom Nova Gorica, Nova Gorica, Slovenia. “@theorchid_beauty,” p. 23. ISBN 978-961-6783-32-3.
2023 — BestOFF 2023: Outside In. Kunstuniversität Linz, Linz, Austria. “Artificial Cloud,” p. 17.
2023 — Ars Electronica 2023: Who Owns the Truth?. Hatje Cantz, Berlin, Germany. “@theorchid_beauty,” p. 195. ISBN 978-3-7757-5602-0.