Mk Yurttaş

Mk received Bachelor of Architecture and Master of Architecture degrees&nbsp,on “the hybridization of body and space” from ITU, and Proficiency in Art (PhD) degree on “posthuman body in contemporary art” from YTU. In 2012, was accepted to University of Arts London Central Saint Martins MA Fine Art Program with this PhD research. In 2021, participated in The Artist Residency Project of SVA NYC School of Visual Arts with the artist fellowship award of American Turkish Society. In 2025, participated in Erasmus Staff Mobility Program at Universidade Lusofona di Lisboa in Portugal.

Mk’s works, including performance, installation, video, photography, drawing, text, and spatial interventions, have been exhibited in Turkey at Pera Museum, Müze Evliyagil, Mamut Art Project, 5533, BAS, Istanbul Biennial, and in the Netherlands, Poland, Germany, Italy, Portugal, Hong Kong and the USA.

Mk’s artistic practice is an ongoing research project under the name “mikaye” which is a schizoplane where the fictional personas, including Mk, are interconnected. In mikaye, personas live and produce together. Although they may have different names, none of them has a clear, fixed appearance, mode of production and identity. They like to flow into each other, to dive from one part of the plane and come out of another persona, sometimes to stay in the depths for months, and being thought to have disappeared.

Mk lives in Istanbul and continues their artistic / academic practices in collaboration with Performistanbul and at Haliç University.