Delal Seker
Delal Şeker is an interdisciplinary artist and researcher whose practice encompasses writing, painting, installation, video, and research-based artistic production. Her work engages with magical realism, memory, interspecies relations, and speculative narratives, through which she investigates alternative ways of living and modes of coexistence from her own political perspective.
After graduating from the Faculty of Dentistry at Hacettepe University, Delal Şeker Bulut studied Dramatic Writing at Ankara University's Faculty of Language, History and Geography, where she completed her thesis, “Traces of Conceptual Art in the Texts of Sevim Burak”. She subsequently earned her M.A. in Painting from the Faculty of Fine Arts at Hacettepe University with the thesis “Art and New Possibilities in the Anthropocene”. During this period, she developed an interdisciplinary research practice, producing works that reimagined her narratives through diverse media, including video, sculpture, and installation.
Her short stories, poems, and research articles have appeared in various literary journals and publications. She has translated poetry collections and has written and illustrated children's books. Her work has been presented in numerous group exhibitions.
She further expanded her research practice through the course “Design and the Posthumanist Perspective” at the University of Gothenburg, where she also joined the artist-research collective of the same name. This experience informed the development of new methodologies that bring together artistic research, design inquiry, and posthumanist thought.
In 2025, she became one of the co-founders of “Circa Anatolia (CA)”, an initiative dedicated to fostering interdisciplinary artistic research and collaborative production between Türkiye and Sweden. Within CA, she develops international artistic research projects and leads the design and curatorial direction of “Toİ Gallery”, an exhibition platform established as part of the initiative.
EDUCATION
2024 Eat - Food Culture, Materiality and Design HDK- Valand Academy of Art
and Design, Göteborg, Sweden.
2022 Design an the Posthumanist Perspective Programme- HDK- Valand Academy of Art and Design, Göteborg, Sweden.
2019-2020 Faculty of Art and Design - Jan Evangelista University-Czech Republic
2017-2021... Hacettepe University, Fine Arts Institute, Department of Painting, Masters, Ankara
2010-2015 Ankara University, Faculty of Language, History and Geography, Bachelor of Arts, Ankara
2007-2008 University of Oulu- Medical School, iExchange Student, Erasmus, Finland
2003-2008 Hacettepe University Faculty of Dentistry, Ankara
EXHIBITIONS
2024 The Act of Eating, Eat - Food Culture, Materiality and Design HDK- Valand Academy of Art
and Design, Göteborg, Sweden.
2020 Bahçede Sanat, Erimtan Arkeoloji ve Sanat Müzesi.
2020 Art and Design graduate exhibition,Jan Evangelista University-Czech Republic.
2019 Mamut Art Project Hubara
2019 Fox Wedding Exhibition, Kova Art Space, Ankara
2018 Artist Publications Exhibition, Torun-Salt, Ankara
2018 Autonomous Art Machines Exhibition, Nesin Matematik Köyü Nesin Maths Village, İzmir
2017 Bust Sculpture Competition Exhibition Jury Special Prize, Hacettepe University, Fine Arts
Institute, Department of Sculpture, Ankara
2014 Painting Workshop with Kids, Clowns Without Borders, Diyarbakır
2012 Nazım Culture House, Ankara
2011 The Aesthetics of Resistance, Street Photo Exhibition, Ankara
2010 Induction, Composite Photography Exhibition, Bashimi Art House, Avusturya
PUBLICATIONS
2024 One day we will surely meet, a theatre more than a human being, TebTheatre Magazine.
2024 Mountain View, Devedikeni.
2024 Gloomy Moss Poem, Morero Fanzin.
2023 Houbara letter Story, The Posthumanist Magazine, London.
2022 Photozine, Curated by Faz Collective, Fail Books.
2018 Great Catastrophes Book, KGA-1 Sanatçı Yayınları Sergisi Artist Publications Exhibition, Torun-Salt, Ankara.