Kivanç Nalça

Who is Kıvanç Nalça? (1973-Istanbul)

Kıvanç Nalça was born on April 4, 1973, in Istanbul. He completed his primary and secondary education in Eskişehir. He graduated from Ankara University, Faculty of Language, History and Geography, Department of Theatre. He continued writing theatre plays from his student years onwards. His first book, “The Unhappy Mothers Club,” was published by the Ministry of Culture in 1997. With this play, he received the Women’s Plays Award from the Association for the Study and Research of Women’s Social Life (KASAİD). His book “Collected Plays I,” published by Mitos Boyut Publications in 2004, included plays that won awards in national competitions.

In 1999, he started working as a Producer at TRT Istanbul Radio. At TRT Istanbul Radio, he produced more than two hundred radio plays as a dramaturg, producer, and director, and retired from his position as Director of Theatre and Entertainment Broadcasts, where he served for 5 years. He served as the Founding President of the Dramafon Radio Play and Sound Culture Association. In 2008, he started publishing Dramafon, Turkey’s first and only radio play and radio culture magazine, with a team dedicated to radio plays. In 2009, his book “1924: The First Radio P...

Artistic Perspective:

I believe that canvas painting, marble, wood, bronze, and ceramic sculpture will remain a part of our culture for centuries to come. However, I find it very exciting that canvas has opened and will open entirely new avenues beyond traditional forms and styles of expression and exhibition. All my works, whether figurative or not, either begin with the aim of telling a story or accidentally arrive at a story. Using materials with different textures such as leather, fabric, glass, metal, and sometimes synthetic textiles on canvas to create sculptural paintings or painting-like sculptures is a path I enjoy and prefer. During my time studying theatre and practicing both amateur and professional theatre, I was influenced by Richard Wagner's concept of Gesamtkunstwerk (the complete work of art). This concept, which Wagner primarily used for opera, for me pointed to interdisciplinary relationships and wholeness in art. Literature, music, drama, and visual arts all feed off and complement each other in their forms of expression… I believe that the uniqueness and individuality of visual arts and the fact that dramatic performance arts offer a personal and original experience for both participants and witnesses can coex...