Baran CAGINLI

Profile

Baran Caginli (born in Istanbul, 1990) lives and works in Helsinki and holds a Master’s degree from the Academy of Fine Arts Helsinki, Sculpture Department. His work underlines global concerns by highlighting the problematics and contradictions of power, governmental conflicts, the military-industrial complex, systematic repression, and discrimination.

Recent Activities:
2026　“Politics at the Kitchen Table”, Wilhelm-Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen
2025　“Lost and Found”, Oksasenkatu 11 Gallery, Helsinki
2025　“Rock, Paper, Scissors”, Museum of Contemporary Art KIASMA, Helsinki
2024　“Baking Books”, Kunstverein am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin
2021　“Helsinki Biennial”, Vallisaari / Helsinki Art Museum, Helsinki

Others:
2024　Bucharest Biennial 11, Bucharest
2023　Mita Biennial of Contemporary Art, Joensuu Art Museum, Joensuu
2015　ESSL Museum Art Award, ESSL Museum, Vienna

About Works

Subjects and people in his works are often witnesses to an incident, forced migration and disappearances, or loss. Through diverse media, including photography, sculpture, installation, and archival material, he includes elements of hand-made skill and techniques. Caginli integrates layers of camouflage or concealment, re-constituting them and giving them a voice in a new context, and to adding to them subtle messaging and gestures.