Can Maden

About the Work

The work on display is rooted in a practice that moves freely between mixed-media art and more focused explorations in watercolor and ink. Layers of collage and scanned textures meet painterly washes and hand-drawn marks, while occasional experiments in digital art extend the palette and scale of each composition. As an Istanbul artist, the studio practice reflects a dialogue between place and process — city life, memory, and material histories inform surface treatments and compositional choices.

Many pieces begin as tactile investigations of paper, thread, and found ephemera before being recomposed into hybrid forms. This mixing of media — collage fragments, wet media like watercolor and ink, and digital layering — creates a vocabulary that sits squarely within contemporary art conversations while remaining personal and tactile. You can view a broader selection of these works in the Gallery, where individual techniques and mediums are called out in each entry.

The trajectory of the work is also shaped by exhibitions and critical writing; recent shows and reviews illustrate how mixed voices and formats cohere into ongoing themes. For information on current and upcoming presentations, see Exhibitions, and for press coverage and essays about the practice, visit Press. Together these threads show how collage, digital art, and hand-applied media continue to evolve within a contemporary art practice rooted in Istanbul.