Turkish Coffee Series By Göknil Gümüş Sungurtekin. A series of artworks based on connotations about Turkish coffee culture.
Turkish coffee is one of the oldest[1] coffee preparation and cooking methods that has survived from the Ottoman Empire, which has an important place in Turkish culture. It has a unique identity and tradition with its unique taste, foam, smell and presentation. It is the only type of coffee that is served with grounds. (wikipedia)
In this series, the artist has portrayed the meaning, taste, memories and associations of Turkish coffee, which she loves very much, in an instant expressionist style, like a play with  paintings.

Turkish Coffee Series

Yalıboyu Street is a nice street near the Bosphorus between the district of Cengelkoy and Beylerbeyi in the city of Istanbul in Turkey. The artist was born in a outbuilding with garden on this street in this neighborhood waterside. The artist lived in the house number:18 until the age of 12. In this series, where the artist painting about memories and moments, she expressives intuitive and imaginary learning of her childhood.

Yalıboyu No:18

Warm summer and holiday memories, summer crises and summer love, joy, music, tastes of summer... Since she was born in summer, she sees herself as a summer child. She also does collective consciousness work, reminds his childhood of summer and loves summer very much.

Summer

2001-2004 
I'll Take My Jacket And I'will Go - Let the Last Comer Close The Door! Installation Installation by Göknil Gümüş Sungurtekin
HAT & PERA Installation by Göknil Gümüş Sungurtekin

Installations By Goknil Gumus Sungurtekin

#songstressseries was inspired by the dance figures of the famous kanto artist #NurhanDamcıoğlu. It is a satirical song, arranged according to the very lively and energetic lyrics #artworkseries
The artist immortalized the singer's lyrics and famous dance with a painting while singing this song.
" In this series of oil paintings, I delved into the vibrant textures of expressionism and fauvism to capture the dynamic essence of feminine energy. Using strong brushstrokes and a bold vintage-inspired palette, I depicted a figure that embodies grace and movement. This piece is an ode to empowerment and the exuberant dance of life, ready to fill any space with its powerful, uplifting aura."

Canto - Songstress Series

Hat & Pera: Installation, 35 hats, mixed technique on hats.Taksim is an old and big neighborhood of Istanbul in Turkey . 
 ''Pera '' is the old name of Taksim. Pera has changed dramatically in the last 80 years. Because of their kindness, people living in Istanbul used to wear their hats on their way to Pera in old times. They would go there in their most elegant clothes. For this reason, she thinks the hat is a symbol of "kindness and respect" for the people of old Istanbul.

HAT & PERA  

Self portraits: Fear of self is madness.
A series of three self-portraits. About transferring fear to others who see her. The concept of fear itself is terrible. Emphasis has been placed on self-fear leading to madness.  And the concept of breathing.

SELF PORTRAITS SERIES

Fun and cheerful artworks of her playing games with her inner child are in this series.

Playground

"Like clay tablets of the subconscious," In this art series, she displays an attitude that focuses on the anime characters of imagination, questions about life, answers and subconscious answers, the expression of complex feelings and perhaps their solutions. Collective, feminine energy, subconscious, global life, cosmic senses form the conceptual basis of these works. Like every expressionist, the artist sets out with the claim of "I feel this" and dives into the subconscious, reaches her treasures and lays she before your eyes as a single line. These works, which are a combination of a direct and immediate, architectural, minimalislt and symbolic narrative and an expressionist attitude, are the works of the artist's subconscious chest.

Drawings By Göknil Gümüş Sungurtekin

When her sister cycles and draws a circle with her bike in the house's garden which she was born.

Title of the work: WORKS ON THE PAPER '' Previous Home Series '' , '' This painting of mine, which emerged from the house I was born in, Beylerbeyi Yalıboyu Street No:18 (now No:16) Yalıboyu No:18 Series'', which was an interpretation of an old photograph, merged with the concept of "Tolstoy's Bicycle" in time, "learning lasts a lifetime and life continues with joy no matter what"! Like its meaning, it sets off in life joyfully and carries the freshness of the enthusiasm and joy of its time wherever it goes.

WORKS ON THE PAPER - Previous Home Series

As an expressionist, the artist makes a series of portraits within the scope of her sincere understanding of art. The portraits in this series are expressionist portraits of real or imaginary people, whose meanings and stories the artist first makes and then understands and remembers with an expressiveness as they come from within.

PORTRAITS FROM MY HEART SERIES

Göknil Gümüş Sungurtekin won the Navy Artist Award in the Turkish Naval Forces competition in 2004. She won the first prize in the 8th Traditional “Sea” Navy Painting Contest with which she participated, and the special “Navy Painter” title.  Between 2004-2007, she made 30 paintings for this project as the  Navy Painter için for the Turkish Navy. All the works of art produced by Navy artist Göknil Gümüş Sungurtekin are exhibited permanently in Turkish Navy halls, museums and archives. Goknil Gumus Sungurtekin is the first Turkish Woman Navy Artist. 
#navalartist #navalpainter #navyartist

Naval Painter  Göknil Gümüş Private Exhibition

22 & 23 July By Göknil Gümüş Sungurtekin
These works emerged by comparing the nature of love to "spring".July 22 was a summer day, but the enamored artist secretly remembers it as a spring day. Because it was a period when she felt a spring-like love blooming within her. Work was carried out in this spirit.The night before her birthday, the artist depicted the emotional and psychological state she experienced that night with a developed astrological, educated and spiritual attitude, with emotional subconscious stories about love and life. And she contined this on 23th July in her birthday. While these stories are expressions of the artist's own memories, some of them are also reflections from the subconscious and collective pool.

22 & 23 July By Göknil Gümüş Sungurtekin

Subjects issues such as femininen energy, self -value, self-respect, self love, self-reliance, energy, balance, connection, quantum and mysticism.
In all these matters, she creates her  life and dreams with an imaginary composite and orchestration. She is  expressing her feeling and thoughts quickly, momentarily, and with strong colors and expressions, meaningful, enthusiastic and passionate.

Feminine Energy Series By Göknil Gümüş Sungurtekin

Warrior Series

Sometimes She made her paintings based on associations and metaphors. This Series focused on Fables. Because one of the ways to overcome the obstacle in front of you in order to feel love for every being beyond understanding and loving life and knowing the reasons is painting. '' Whatever you do and focus on, you magnify and love it. Love is labor, if you focus enough on a person, we will see the beautiful sides of it, understand the mistakes and maybe get rid of our prejudices. ''

Fable Series

Expressions

I have contacted  between F,Nietzsche's life story and Island in  this series

Island and Man Series

The Mad Man with Moped

She was in front of the shopping mall where I worked on a gray Istanbul's day for a break, everything is gray and concrete. It was crowded and people were unhappy as if in all this gray aura. Then she saw Madman, who came with a very slow scooter, screaming as if he was going very fast from the street. The aura and the colors changed, people began to smile looking at him.
The Mad Man with Moped is a man who suddenly tears down a grey, concrete, and monotonous life and transforms this life into a whole different aura, balance, routine, and perception with all his color, scream and enthusiasm.  On this serie you can see his how changing street as he comes, his scream and his ear  why its provide his balance.

Mad Man With Mopet

All the subjects and objects used by the artist in these paintings are composed of the memories she remembers and the memories of her experiences in the family home. The artist also painted her own mother's portrait from imagination, and in fact, the things we think we have lost appear even more vividly and in detail in our imaginations. It is to begin to see with our hearts what we have lost.

Mother

In this series, Artist Göknil Gümüş has aimed to send a respect and greetings to the master artists her loves.

Respect to Masters

Starry Harlequin

'' The people who laugh too much actually carry a great sadness in them. That's a big irony ! ''

Stary Harlequin

Her works, featured in the art auction for Red Bull senior executives, she makes references to Red Bull racing sports, the red bull cheering in these art works.

Red Bull! Gives wings!

She focused on spending more time with objects and nature compositions at home/studio under pandemic conditions. A series of paintings that catches his eye while he is thinking or doing other projects, and that emerges when he is immersed in painting the objects and forms he likes.
This series focuses on flowers, and pets, which she loves so much after the pandemic period.

Flowers & Animals - Still Life & Objects

In this series she asks the question "how to say no"? In the first series of this series, we say "no" by getting angry and reacting, and sometimes "no" as a reaction against oppression and injustice!. In the second time, she tried to explain the clarity and peace of just listening and finally saying "no" without any explanation.

Göknil Gümüş Sungurtekin's Art Collections