Mîna Kocailik

Mîna Kocailik is an interdisciplinary artist working in painting, writing and performance; she was born in Istanbul in 1989 and lives in Istanbul. She began painting in 2014 and has worked as an independent artist since 2018; her practice developed during the years she spent in India and West Africa and continued in Kayaköy and Istanbul. She paints with acrylic, collage and mixed media, guided by intuition and improvisation; poetry and text are an integral part of her work. Her solo exhibitions include Çıplak (La Visione Art Gallery, 2022), Kuş Dili (Caddebostan Cultural Centre, 2026) and Bachmann: Kırık Şiir (Barın Han, 2026).