Hacer Bozkurt

Hacer Bozkurt is an architect, architectural photographer and artist from Turkey working locally and internationally.
In her photography, buildings are not architectural objects, they are living mechanisms with their own residents, climate, and environment. She always seeks to understand, discover, and reflect on the relationships between these living mechanisms and their artifacts. In her works, she focuses on making visible the invisible or hidden layers of the daily life of the built environment.
She has joined and conducted many workshops, competitions, and international exhibitions about relations with architecture and photography. Her first solo photography exhibition Layers of Time was exhibited in Utopia Stadt in Wuppertal. Her photos were shown at various biennales and design weeks such as the Internationale Rotterdam Architecture Biennale and Caldas Design Week.
She received several prizes and grants in architectural photography such as M.Mode Awards 2021 (1st Place), Loop Design Awards 2022 (Honorable Mention), and Salt Research Funds 2021 (selected as one of the six scholars for research projects). Her photos have been featured on international architecture platforms such as Archdaily, Architizer, Archello, Divisare, Ar...

*Istanbul Technical University Department of Architecture, Architectural Design Programme, Turkey (M.Arch.)
*Antwerp University, Department of Architecture, Belgium (M.Arch - exchange student)
*Kocaeli University, Faculty of Design, Architecture Department, Turkey (B.Arch.)

Expanding Space, Insblaue Art Gallery I Solo Exhibition Remscheid, Germany (2023, September 17th)

Sustainable Building in the Caucasus in 10th International Biennale Rotterdam, Netherlands I with Bart Feberwee and Ecem Sarıçayır (2022, September 22nd-November 13rd).

Layers of Time, Utopiastadt, Wuppertal-Germany I Solo Exhibition (2022, June 10th-26th).

Photographer of the Year 2019, Espaçons Espelho D'agua, Lisbon, 21st-23nd February 2020 (Group Exhibition).

Minimalism, World Hall Gallery, Barcelona, 14-16th February 2020 (Group Exhibition).

Memorable Portraits, Qlick Gallery, Amsterdam, November 2019 (Group Exhibition).

Imaginary (Non)Encountering Situations In An Apartment Building, Caldas Design Week, Portugal, November 2017 (with Huseyin Cıfel and Ilgın Y. Eldes).