Ekrem Yalçındağ, known for his works that interpret traditional motifs with a contemporary language and are based on the repetition of geometric and floral patterns, uses a style that emphasizes craftsmanship and creates visual illusions between art and design. In his works, he transforms plant (floral) and geometric motifs, rooted in traditional Turkish/Islamic art, into three-dimensional forms with intense paint texture. Using the motifs like “letters,” he fills the canvas surface with a rhythmic and symmetrical order.

(b. 1964, Adıyaman) After graduating from the Faculty of Fine Arts at Dokuz Eylül University in İzmir, he studied with the renowned artist Hermann Nitsch at Frankfurt Städelschule between 1994 and 1999. Having been a scholarship recipient at Balmoral Castle in Bad Ems in 2001 and participating in the artist residency program at Villa Waldberta in Munich in 2003, his works are included in important public and private collections such as Istanbul Modern, Stuttgart Kunstmuseum, The Hague European Patent Office, and the Munich Goetz Collection. Yalçındağ, who has held numerous solo and group exhibitions in Türkiye and abroad, lives and works in Istanbul and Germany.