Damla Kilickiran – Seeing Touch
Damla Kilickiran (b. 1991, Stockholm) is a Swedish-Turkish artist who lives and works in Oslo. She holds an MFA from the Oslo National Academy of the Arts and a BFA from Tromsø Academy of Contemporary Art. Recent solo exhibitions include Semantically threaded, like prayers, Hulias, Oslo (2025); Mercury RX, Mega Foundation, Stockholm (2022); Twine an Image That Is Yet To Be, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen (2022); Among Spirits of Mineral Pitch and Other Public Apparitions, UKS, Oslo (2021); On Sense and Glyphs, Destiny’s, Oslo (2020); and Purpur Glimpse, Small Projects, Tromsø (2017). Her work has been presented in group exhibitions at Femtensesse, Oslo (2025); Sandefjord Kunstforening (2025); Lunds konsthall (2024/2025); The 8th Yokohama Triennale (2024); Gothenburg International Biennale For Contemporary Art (2021); Lofoten International Art Festival, Svolvær (2019); and Nordnorsk Kunstnersenter, Svolvær (2018). Commissioned by KORO – Public Art Norway, Kilickiran recently completed a public artwork for the façade of A-blokka, part of the new Government Quarter in Oslo. The reliefs, produced in glass fiber–reinforced concrete, draw on her photographic archive of subtle urban details and overlooked forms. Her work is currently included in the group exhibition Pyramide at Haugar kunstmuseum in Tønsberg. In June, her installation On Sense and Glyphs will be presented by Femtensesse at Basel Social Club, followed by a solo exhibition at KOSA in Maridalen in the fall. 2027 will see a solo exhibition by Kilickiran in one of the skylit galleries at Kunstnernes Hus in Oslo.
