1. 1997, Istanbul

Ece Haskan is an Istanbul-based artist working across surrealist painting, sculpture, and

installation. Drawing from cultural games and social narratives, she explores the intersections

of individual identity, perception of reality, and collective memory, producing irony-driven

works and interactive pieces centered on play and participation. Selected for Mamut Art

Project 2022, she has participated in group exhibitions and art fairs including Contemporary

Istanbul and Artweeks. In 2024, she presented her first solo exhibition, Hide and Seek, at

Büyükdere35 in Istanbul, curated by Emrah Çoban.

Artist Statement

Ece Haskan allows the viewer to redefine their perception of reality through her paintings.

By depicting the inconsistencies of daily life with ironic language using surreal images that

exist in an unknown dimension, independent of time and space, she invites the viewer into

a different reality within the fantasy world she creates. The artist opens the doors to an

alternative reality, distant from our common understanding, emphasizing a positive reality

through the colors she uses. By grounding her work in the narrative practice of illustration,

Haskan explores the concepts she investigates through the human body in her paintings

and three-dimensional creations like sculptures with a new surreal approach.

By bridging the gap between the real and the surreal in her works, she enables the viewer

to reflect on the irony, contradictions, and complex flow of daily life. While redefining

reality in her works, Ece Haskan creates multiple layers of meaning and investigates an

alternative reality. Her works feature stories, images, games, social roles and relationships,

and the fragility of existence, products of the creative human mind. In addressing these

themes, the artist engages the viewer with images that touch both individual and collective

subconscious. Thus, the viewer interacts with the works, discovering new meanings in the

light of their subjective experiences.