Uğur Karataş

Uğur Karataş's paintings stand out for their intensive exploration of the possibilities of abstract art. The exclusion of an overall composition and central motifs positions the artist's paintings within the modernist "allover painting" tradition. Grid-like structures distinctly organize the pictorial action, emphasizing a comprehensive framework situated away from the center that possesses the potential to transcend the borders of the painting. The shimmering textures of independent structures create depthless spaces that, by their formation, appear like self-referential landscapes. The artist calls these structures "fractal landscapes." Although these works give the impression of a completely painted surface, they are actually compositions produced using the monotype printing technique. The duality between production and result, form and material, holds a central place in Karataş's artistic practice. His paintings take shape starting from objects such as plastic bags and packaging materials; these materials are processed and subjected to a complex process that creates relationships and tensions among colors, tones, textures, and surfaces. This is how the Weave structures emerge.

(b. 1991, Bitlis) Uğur Karataş graduated from Dokuz Eylül University Faculty of Fine Arts, Department of Painting in İzmir in 2015. Between 2019 and 2021, he completed his master's degree in fine arts at the Hochschule für Künste Bremen in the studio of Heike Kati Barath. Since 2024, Uğur Karataş has been pursuing his master's studies at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna in the Department of Painting under the studio of Daniel Richter. To date, he has held exhibitions in Bremen, Berlin, Istanbul, Ankara, and İzmir. Invited to the Bremer Kunststipendium Artist-in-Residence Program in Bremen in 2018, Karataş lives and works in Germany.