Hülya Topaktaş

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  Who is Hülya Topaktaş? (1966-Çorum)She was born in 1966 in Çorum. Due to her interest in art, she opened her own studio in 2004. She is a member of Antalya Artists Association and Antalya Fine Arts Association. She graduated from Akdeniz University Fine Arts Faculty Painting Department as the second and fourth in the faculty in 2018. H. Topaktaş, who completed her master’s degree in 2025, continues her work in her own studio (Abstract Art Painting Studio). The artist, who opened ten personal exhibitions (Antalya, Istanbul, Adana), took part in over 200 mixed exhibitions. She won the 2nd prize in the charcoal pencil “Museum Themed” painting competition opened by Antalya Museum (2006), the first prize in the Konya Altı Municipality Antalya “Resist Woman” Themed painting competition (2014) in the 2015/2016 academic year “Kahraman Maraş Sütçü İmam University 13.” His painting was deemed worthy of being exhibited in the “Traditional Painting Competition”.Art Perspective;The artist takes his subject from the dialectic of “life and death”. He defines his works as the adventure of existence in the face of the reality of human finitude. Art is also a tool in this struggle. Inspired by traumatic events (earthquakes, wars and social problems etc.), Topaktaş sees his works not only as an aesthetic production but also as a resistance that bears witness to his era. Due to his interest in art and nature, he questions and interprets human existential concerns from a philosophical perspective.By creating an intellectual language about the body in his works, Topaktaş questions the intellectuality, vitality and secrets of not the body but also the subject that owns the body. He increases the emotional intensity by using texture in his paintings. By creating a melancholic and disturbing atmosphere due to his existential concerns with an expressionist attitude, he tries to tell the audience the importance of life and that everything is temporary.

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