Murat Burhanoğlu, born in Istanbul (1987) and based in Amsterdam, is a painter whose practice revolves around monochromatic landscapes and the gestures of entities and animals that inhabit our world. His visual language draws on archaic rawness, ruins, and palaces.
Artist’s first solo exhibition, Black Sun (2019), and his second, Order of the House (2023), were both within Ambidexter Gallery. His paintings are featured annually at major art fairs such as Contemporary Istanbul, Akaretler Artweeks, Artshow Istanbul. Murat’s works have been included in group exhibitions in Istanbul, Izmir and Chios, Greece. Also in 2025, the artist has exhibited with a solo show at MENART Fair in Paris.
Having held exhibitions mostly along the Aegean coast, he draws his artistic inspiration from the same geography, the sea, the light and the mythology.
2026 July, Group Exhibition, Regulars, Chios, Greece
2026 April, Group Exhibition, Ambidextrous Group Show, Zorlu PSM, İstanbul
2025 October, Art Fair, MENART Fair Paris, Birds of a Feather, Paris, France
2025 May, Group Exhibition, Forest Intertwined, Ayn Earth Studio
2025 January, Group Exhibition, Ambidextrous Group Show 5, Ambidexter Gallery
2024 February, Art Fair, Artshow Istanbul
2023 September, Art Fair, Contemporary Istanbul
2023 August, Group Exhibition, Neighbors of Homer, Chios, Greece
2023 September, Group Exhibition, The Earth’s Heart is Blue, Club Marvy İzmir, by Döne Otyam
2023 May, Art Fair, Contemporary Istanbul
2023 April, Solo Exhibition, Order of the House, Ambidexter Gallery
2022 November, Art Fair, Akaretler Artweeks
2022 September, Art Fair, Contemporary Istanbul
2022 May, Art Fair, Contemporary Istanbul
2021 October, Art Fair, Contemporary Istanbul
2019 September, Solo exhibition, Black Sun, Ambidexter Gallery