Artist · Contemporary art
Berlin · Italy
OKAN
GÖKGÖZ
“Over every mountain there is a path, although we might not see it.”
2022 — 2026
Artist
I'm a North-based contemporary artist and designer focusing on nature. I'm bringing a deep passion for natural artificial landscape. Welcome in my world.
Transforming concrete into art, Okan Gökgöz brings industrial and organic matter into a state of movement, oxidation and change.
Water Transformation No. 4 · Concrete on clay · Patina · 2022
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Selected work
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Water
2022
Concrete on clay · Patina
Concrete on clay · Patina
Water is the driving force of all nature.
Water is not a solid wall, it will not stop you. But water always goes where it wants to go, and nothing in the end can stand against it.
If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water.
Water · Detail · Concrete on clay · Patina
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Volcano
2022
Concrete on canvas and clay · Patina · Etna stone
Concrete on canvas and clay · Patina · Etna stone
What does transformation mean to human being? And how can we influence our natural being?
This serie is inspired by nature to human being. In nature, everything is moving, changing and transforming, reacting to something, and in connection to every kind of movement. How can human being transform like our strong nature? Human state of mind is that we are destroying our environment, which gives us the base of life. But when I’m looking into nature, nature is shaping, transforming and surrounds us with its beauty, it has the power of surviving. So it is in humans nature regardless?
Volcano · Concrete on canvas · Patina · 2022
Volcano · Detail · Concrete on canvas · Patina
I want to express, that what everything we do, interacts, it is changing and we can’t stop it, nothing will be like it used to be, and why should we be scared of it? Why can’t humans open their arms a widely and welcome natural changement to something different? Why can’t we engage with the process in a natural change making that came to us by our origin.
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Soil & Earth
2022
Concrete on clay · Patina
Concrete on clay · Patina
Transformation · Concrete on clay · No. 2, 2022
Transformation · Concrete on clay · No. 2, 2022
Land is not merely soil, it is a fountain of energy.
ransformation as a material study of earth, surface and change. Concrete and clay meet as both constructed and elemental matter.
Earth · Concrete on clay · 2022
Transformation · Concrete on clay · No. 3, 2022
Media
Process · Moving image
Volcano · Surface study · 2022
In nature, everything is moving, changing and transforming — reacting to something, in connection to every kind of movement.
Practice
About
Transforming concrete into art, Okan Gökgöz brings industrial and organic matter into a state of movement, oxidation and change.
I’m a North-based contemporary artist and designer focusing on nature. I’m bringing a deep passion for natural artificial landscape. Welcome in my world.
“Over every mountain there is a path, although we might not see it.”
“Over every mountain there is a path, although we might not see it.”
Installation view · Volcano