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Kaan Hiçyılmaz (Rotterdam, NL) is an architectural designer and artist based in the Netherlands. He holds a BArch degree in Architecture from Istanbul Bilgi University and completed his MA in Contextual Design from Design Academy Eindhoven.

His work emerges from the reciprocation between the human body and the built environment, in which he investigates elements of control directed to affect one’s physical and mental conditioning. Personal associations-dissociations, embodied research, and psychogeography become essential methodologies to shape his inquiry. Recently, he has been reflecting on (self-)surveilling as an inscribed governing tool targeted to maintain bodily control.

Approaching urban context as a space of order, he deconstructs everyday events, urban artifacts, and mundane actions as cues for our regulated daily experience. Through ephemeral public interventions and performative spatial installations, he creates physical interplays to uncover and disrupt these ordinary dynamics. His work contextualizes as critical storytelling using tools of writing, moving image, prop making, and performance.

EDUCATION:

*Design Academy Eindhoven, MA Contextual Design, (NL) ‘23

*Istanbul Bilgi University, BArch Architecture, (TR) ‘18

EXHIBITION:

*FASHIONCLASH Festival 2024, Mariastraat 13, Maastricht (NL), ‘24

*Limburg Biënnale 2024, Marres, Maastricht (NL), ‘24

*W(here!)?, Event organized by FAUXBIA Collective, MU, Eindhoven (NL), ‘24

*Anonymous #1, TAC, Eindhoven (NL), ‘24

*The Body is a Movement, DDW, Eindhoven (NL), ‘23

*DAE Graduation Show, DDW, Eindhoven (NL), ‘23

*16th International Architecture Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, Shift #8 ‘Of Journeys’, Venice (IT), ‘18

*architect@WORK, Istanbul (TR), ‘18

*Studio-X Istanbul, Open-Cabinet Day, Istanbul (TR), ‘17

EXPERIENCE:

Curation, Programming & Production:

*AI & Identity: Challenges for Marginalised Communities, Developing and programming a special episode, Pakhuis de Zwijger, ‘24

*cid, Programming, production & coordination of my collaborative project, Mariastraat 13, ‘24

*Oh Sh!t, You Again?, Co-organizing a workshop with Ishani Chatterjee, Framer Framed, ‘24

*non-EU babes, Co-organizing information sessions for the non-EU students of DAE with Ishani Chatterjee & Soph Boobyer, Design Academy Eindhoven, ‘24

*W(here!)?, Organizing the performance and open conversation, MU Hybrid Art House, ‘24

*Wethoven: Flooded with Creatures, Co-organizing, scheduling, tutoring for the Intro Week program of the master’s students, Design Academy Eindhoven, ‘24

Host & Guide:

*Meet the Masters, Host for Contextual Design, Design Academy Eindhoven, ‘23 - ‘24

*MA Talk & Tour, Info & Tour guide, Design Academy Eindhoven, ‘22

*Ticket Sales & Information Desk team member, Dutch Design Week, ‘22

*Master’s Symposium, Host for Contextual Design, Design Academy Eindhoven, ‘22

*Class Representative for Contextual Design, Design Academy Eindhoven, ‘21 - ‘23

Office Work:

*Pakhuis de Zwijger, Program making internship at Designing Cities for All (DCFA), ‘24 - ‘25

*Studio Kaan Hicyilmaz, Founder, ‘23 - Ongoing

*SUPERPOOL, Junior Architect, ‘18 - ‘21

PUBLICATION:

*Activating Boundaries, Publication developed with Jennifer Carniel & Ishani Chatterjee, ‘22

*The dis-ordering affect: A dual investigation on the surveilled bodies between the domestic and public, Master’s thesis publication, ‘23

SUBSIDY:

*Amarte Fonds, FASHIONCLASH X Amarte open call for developing a collaborative project for the FASHIONCLASH Festival, ‘24

*Snelgeldfonds - Cultuur Eindhoven, Granted to FAUXBIA Collective for the Fake Fiction exhibition, ‘24

PARTICIPATION:

*FAUXBIA Collective, Former member of the non-EU artist collective based in Eindhoven, ‘24

*Silent Rebellions: the arts of navigating migration policies, Organized by Ishani Chatterjee in collaboration with Casco Art Institute: Working for the Commons, ‘24

*(Re)Framing Narratives - Methodologies of Migration, Workshop organized by Ishani Chatterjee, Limestone Books, ‘24

*Voice of Makers, Conducted by MU Hybrid Art House and The Hmm on behalf of DEN, ‘24

*(De)coding Bodies, Co-organized by the Embassy of Inclusive Society and Onomatopee X Baltan Laboratories, Van Abbemuseum, ‘23

*Intersectional Positioning, Led by Gabriel A. Maher, ‘22

*Toxic Landscapes & Unlearning Imperialism seminar, Led by Shailoh Philips, ‘22

*The Integrated Self, Led by Kathleen Delaney, ‘21

*‘MASADA’, RGB Studios program guest, ‘19

*MEF University Faculty of Arts Design and Architecture, Guest jury member, ‘19

*Young Architects Competition, Group project submission, ‘19

*ARCHIPRIX International, Group project submission, ‘19

*Differential Space Studies, ‘A Manifest Against/For The Boulevard’, Led by Emrah Altınok, ‘17