Ayşen Kaptanoğlu

Lives and works in Amsterdam, Netherlands

Artist statement

Ayşen Kaptanoğlu (Istanbul, 1985) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Amsterdam. Her practice investigates power dynamics, sexuality, and gender, questioning violence, its origins, and the structures that reproduce it. She studied literature before training at Wackers Academy and attending the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten. In 2025, she received the Jeanne Oosting Prize for works on paper. Her work has been exhibited internationally in museums and galleries across Europe.

Artwork

• Mommy, Water, 2023. acrylic on linen
• Nausea, 2023. acrylic on linen
• Painting of a sour smelling hell, 2023. acrylic and oil on linen
• Fire, 2023. acrylic on linen
• Deve Guresi (Camel Wrestling), 2025. acrylic on linen
• Mother, 2022. acrylic on linen
• Me, artist, outsider, 2024. acrylic and oil on linen
• Pislik, 2023. acrylic and oil on canvas
• Pasha, 2024. acrylic on canvas
• The Wrestlers(animation)+Monsters of the Lake(painting on paper), 2025. digital animation, looped+acrylic on paper
• Gulser, 2024. acrylic on paper+glazed ceramic shelf
• Fire was a smoke, unnoticed, 2023. acrylic on linen
• The playground, 2025. acrylic on paper