Onur Erten

Onur Erten
Visual Philosophy Artist | Capitalocene Aesthetics

I am a Turkish visual philosophy artist. My practice examines the interdependence between humans and nature in the age of the Capitalocene, as well as the inversion of established hierarchies. Through figurative displacements and destabilized spatial constructions, I render visible the fragility of systems that are assumed to be fixed and stable.

I build my practice around the political ontology of the Capitalocene and the instability of hierarchical structures.

Parallel to my master’s research on art education in the age of the Capitalocene at Uludağ Üniversitesi, I question the artificial division between human and nature and the vertical systems of power that sustain it. By displacing the body, reversing sky and ground, and destabilizing spatial order, I make visible the fragility of what is assumed to be natural and fixed.

My approach is grounded in a simple yet radical question:
How do we know that what lies beneath is not equal to what stands above?

Having grown within a politically constrained public atmosphere, my work carries a restrained intensity — a silent tension. Yet this tension is not directed toward a specific geography; it addresses global systems ...

M.A. in Art Education (Painting-Work Teaching Program)
Uludag University 2020 2023

B.A. in Art Education (Painting-Work Teaching Program)
Uludag University 2015 2019


Vocational High School Diploma in Graphic Design and Photography
Necatibey Kız Teknik ve Meslek Lisesi 2011 2015

2016 – Group Exhibition – Basic Design Studio Exhibition – Bursa, Turkey

2016 – Group Exhibition – Portrait Drawing Exhibition – Bursa, Turkey

2017 – Group Exhibition – “A Million Different Songs” Typography Workshop Exhibition – Bursa, Turkey

2017 – Group Exhibition – “Photographs on the Clothesline” – Photography Department Exhibition – Bursa, Turkey

2017 – Group Exhibition – Teachers’ Day Exhibition (24 November) – Bursa, Turkey

2018 – Group Exhibition – “Manipulation” Photography Exhibition – Bursa, Turkey

2018 – Group Exhibition – Genç Etkinlik 8 Painting Exhibition – Istanbul, Turkey

2019 – Performance Art – “Walking Portraits” – Bursa, Turkey

2020 – Group Exhibition – “Small Works” Painting Exhibition – Muğla, Turkey

2022 – Group Exhibition – “Yerin Tahribi Arşı Deldi” – The Wall Art Gallery – Istanbul, Turkey