Cansu Sezer, a German-Turkish artist based in Zurich, was born in Düsseldorf in 1987 to Turkish immigrant parents. Her creative journey has been diverse, beginning with an incomplete fine arts education before she pursued and completed a design degree. This path led her to a notable career as a Creative Director at one of the leading creative agencies in the German-speaking region. In 2023, Sezer returned to painting with renewed vigor. Her work explores existential themes, often centering on human emotions and the complex search for identity amid a world marked by contradiction and complexity.
Biography
Education
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Biography
Cansu Sezer, a German-Turkish artist based in Zurich, was born in Düsseldorf in 1987 to Turkish immigrant parents. Her creative journey has been diverse, beginning with an incomplete fine arts education before she pursued and completed a design degree. This path led her to a notable career as a Creative Director at one of the leading creative agencies in the German-speaking region. In 2023, Sezer returned to painting with renewed vigor. Her work explores existential themes, often centering on human emotions and the complex search for identity amid a world marked by contradiction and complexity.
Education
Exhibitions
Past:
British Art Fair, Saatchi Gallery London
Upcoming:
December 13, Zurich
Januar 13.-19, Zurich
Artist Statement
My parents were Turkish guest workers in Germany, and I grew up immersed in a perpetual tension of opposites—tradition versus modernity, foreignness versus familiarity, convention versus rebellion.
In my work, I am drawn to those boundary lines where different elements meet, attract, repel, yet somehow grow together. I am captivated by the beauty within chaos, by these intricate questions, constantly torn between them, wrestling with an elusive identity. I seek no reconciliation. I resolve nothing; I exist within it. I find exhilaration in unrest, life within conflict. For it is precisely there, on the threshold where everything both attracts and repels, that something true emerges. And despite all unresolved tensions, it is at its most raw at the beginning and most liberating afterward.
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