Ali Kursun

Born in Istanbul, Ali Kursun is a Turkish and Swiss visual artist based in Geneva. Entirely self-taught, his approach to painting is deeply intuitive.

He began fifteen years ago with dry pastels, laying earthy tones across the canvas until his first compositions emerged. From those early works, his practice has grown to span painting and photography, both approached the same way, through experiment, exploration, and instinct. The medium may change, but the search does not: each work is an attempt to capture what people feel and how those feelings pass between us.

That search runs through every body of work he has made, from his first solo Exhibition Stubborn (2011) to You (2025) at the Centre Culturel du Manoir de Cologny — barriers, rhythms, connection, silence, time, belief, self. Different angles, one question. In 2023, his work was shown at the StART Art Fair at London's Saatchi Gallery.

"In essence, art is the unspoken language of feelings. It is about perceptual worlds and senses. You either feel a piece of art or you don’t. Art is intuitive — a universal system of communication," he reflects.

Ali Kursun lives and creates in Geneva, Switzerland.

1991 MA Webster University, Geneva, Switzerland
1990 BA Webster University, Geneva, Switzerland

Past exhibitions:

"YOU" - 5-23 March 2025 - Centre Culturel du Manoir de Cologny, Geneva, Switzerland

"StART Art Fair London", 11-15 October 2023 - Saatchi Gallery

Solo exhibition "Irresistible", 23-26 September 2019 - Geneva, Switzerland

Solo exhibition "Unbelievable Truths", 21 April 2016 - Geneva, Switzerland

"The Other Art Fair", 23-26 April 2015 - London, UK

Solo exhibition "Timeless Moments", 26 March 2015 - Geneva, Switzerland

Solo exhibition "Unspoken", 6 March 2014 - Geneva, Switzerland

Solo exhibition "Soulmates", 7 March 2013 - Geneva, Switzerland

"PA(F) NYC", 3-5 August 2012, New York, USA

Solo exhibition "Heartbeats", 26-28 April 2012 - Geneva, Switzerland

"Parallax", 16-18 February 2012 - London, UK

Solo exhibition "Stubborn", 3 November 2011 - Geneva, Switzerland