Monika Bektas

Contemporary painter working between figurative abstraction and material surfaces.
Exploring human presence, transformation, and perception through layered painting processes.

I work in oil and mixed media, combining abstract and figurative approaches to investigate memory, identity, and emotional transformation.

My work incorporates copper as a material surface, introducing reflection, depth, and physical presence into the image.

Through ongoing series, I build visual fields where presence emerges, dissolves, and reappears within shifting perceptual and emotional states.

The figure is never fixed, functioning as a carrier of psychological experience, suspended between visibility and disappearance.

Self-taught painter, active since 2007

2025 — Casa del Arte, Palma, Spain
2024 — EuroAirport Basel–Mulhouse–Freiburg, Switzerland / France
2023 — Expo Zurich, Switzerland
2022 — Miami Art Weeks, USA
2022 — Casa del Arte, Palma, Spain
2015 — Invox, Lörrach, Germany
2011 — ART International Zurich, Switzerland