Lara Ögel

Lara Ögel (b. 1987, Izmir) works with various techniques such as video, object, pattern and collage to produce works and installations for space and context. She creates narratives that blend the everyday, the transient or the mundane with mythology and dreams. Her semi-fictional, experience-oriented, atmospheric spatial installations contain cultural, historical and existential archetypes that she weaves with her personal history. She completed her BA in Film and Communications at Clark University. She attended the Intensive Summer Foundation at London Slade School of Fine Arts. Her most recent solo exhibitions include ‘Echo’, Bilsart, 2023; ‘Starry Heavens Above Me and Within Me’, Galerist, 2023; ‘Verses on Water’, Ariel Art, 2019; ‘Public Confidentiality’, Şekerbank Açıkekran, 2019; ‘İmtidâd’, Galata Greek School Open School Library, 2018; ‘Go Back! All is Forgiven’, Protocinema, Paris, 2016; and ‘The Happy Average’, Öktem Aykut, 2014. Recently, Ögel’s works have been included in the group exhibitions 'Healing Ruins', Zeyrek Çinili Hamam, 2023; ‘Collective Healing’, Metrohan, 2023; 'Rounded by Sleep’, Arter, 2022; 'The Promise of Grass' 5th Mardin Biennial, 2022; 'This Place' Yapı Kredi Culture and Art, 2021; 'At the End of the Day' OMM, Eskişehir, 2020; 'Mushrooms', Somerset House, London, 2020; ‘I remember;’, Hannah Barry Gallery, London, 2019; ‘Great Meadow’, riverrun, 2018; ‘Driftwood, or how we surfaced through currents’, Athens, 2017. She took part in residency programs at Cité Internationale des Arts (Paris), PRAKSIS (Oslo), Beirut Art Residency (Beirut). Lara Ögel lives and works in Istanbul.