Ahmet Güneştekin

The artist

Practice and perspective

Ahmet Güneştekin is a Kurdish-Turkish contemporary artist whose work brings inherited stories into dialogue with the present. Raised in Batman, he encountered the oral storytelling and song of the dengbêj tradition as a child. Repetition, myth and the transmission of memory remain central to his visual language.

Across intensely worked paintings, sculptural objects and large installations, he asks how cultures remember—and whose experiences are left outside official accounts. His work has moved from optical structures and mythic imagery toward ambitious environments involving found objects, stone, metal and video.

The exhibition frames silence as an active form of remembrance. Figures with gas masks, skull and fish forms, and works built around doors connect human vulnerability with inherited narratives. The palazzo’s architecture becomes part of that encounter, bringing historical space and contemporary material into dialogue.