The Painting Department's orientation program for the 2026–2027 academic year was held on September 14, 2026, at 14:00 in the Painting Department's theory classroom.
Organized by the Department of Painting at the Çankırı Karatekin University Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture under the title “Miniature Art Painting Exhibition,” the exhibition was opened on May 12, 2026, in the Painting Department Exhibition Hall located on the Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences (FEAS). The exhibition aims to help students grasp the formal and contextual characteristics of traditional arts through reinterpretations produced by workshop students engaged in contemporary artistic practices, thereby providing inspiration for their artistic development. In addition, the exhibition seeks to create a lasting visual impression in the memories of visitors through examples of traditional styles and representations, while also contributing to the archive of art. The exhibition, organized by Murat Kalafat, Ph.D. a member of the academic staff of the Department of Painting, was inaugurated with the participation of Prof. Ersoy Yılmaz, Ph.D. Dean of the Facu...
Esra Nur İptaş, a student from the Painting Department of the Faculty of Arts, Design and Architecture at Çankırı Karatekin University, opened her solo painting exhibition titled “The Unhoming” on April 21, 2026, at the Painting Department Exhibition Hall in the Uluyazı Campus. The exhibition invites viewers to reconsider the concept of “home” through the themes of belonging, migration, identity, and memory. The artist addresses the fragile relationship between individual and collective memory by bringing together different techniques and materials. The works, shaped by family archives and everyday objects, aim to make visible the impact of traces of the past on present identity. The exhibition was opened with the participation of Prof. Dr. Ersoy Yılmaz, Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Design and Architecture at Çankırı Karatekin University; the curation and management of the exhibition were carried out by Assoc. Prof. Bahar Başak Üstel Arı, Head of the Painting Department and workshop...
A simulation talent exam was jointly held between Çankırı Karatekin University, Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture, Department of Painting and Çankırı Selahattin İnal Fine Arts High School. The 12th and 11th grade students of Çankırı Selahattin İnal Fine Arts High School who will take the talent exam this summer tested their skills by taking a trial talent exam in the Painting Department before the exam. Our teachers Assoc. Prof. Bahar Başak Üstel Arı, Assoc. Prof. Nuray Akkol, Assoc. Prof. Esra Ertuğrul Tomsuk, Assist. Prof. Emre Şen, Assist. Prof. Kerem Güman, Lecturer Murat Kalafat, Ph.D. and Res. Assist. Ali Gümülcine, Ph.D. from the Painting Department and Okan Zeğerek, Ahmet Bilgin and Fatma Ceylan from Selahattin İnal Fine Arts High School took part in the exam.
The Farabi Exchange Program Painting Department Student Introduction Event was held by Assoc. Prof. Nuray Akkol on March 23, 2026, at 11:00 AM in the theoretical classroom of the Painting Department, Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture, Uluyazı Campus.
The exhibition titled "Touching Time," prepared by students of the Painting Department of the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture at Çankırı Karatekin University and carried out within the scope of the TÜBİTAK 2209-A University Students Research Projects Support Program, met with art lovers on March 10, 2026, at the Painting Department Exhibition Hall in the Uluyazı Campus. The exhibition aims to reinterpret the concept of time through art, establishing visual and intellectual connections between the past and the present. The students` works, produced using different techniques and approaches, reveal not only their individual forms of expression but also their relationship with cultural memory and local values. The project owners are Sultan Pehlevan, Behicenur Burhan, and Cemile Hasar, while Associate Professor Nuray Akkol served as project consultant and exhibition curator. The exhibition can be visited at the Painting Department Exhibition Hall of the Faculty of Art, Design an...
This exhibition settles into a threshold that will not resolve. Where names fail, categories slip, and clarity operates less as a gift than as a demand. Between the visible and the hidden, a third condition insists: not closure, not confession—only suspension. Here, decay is not an ending but a rhythm that interrupts continuity. The smooth story of order tears; what remains is unbinding, seepage, fracture. In an architecture that compels everything to look “repaired,” the cover becomes a stage—no longer ornament, but the surface of suppression. Beauty speaks as the language of concealment. Semitransparency does not draw a boundary; it unsettles it. Proximity increases, possession recedes. The gaze approaches, judgment withdraws. Opacity is not loss, but a discipline of survival. At the center is the fold: inside cannot be separated from outside, outside reverberates within. Identity is not a straight line but a folded space—multiplying as it folds, refusing a single answer as it mul...
In collaboration with Yapraklı District Governorship and Çankırı Karatekin University Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture, under the guidance of Assoc. Prof. Nuray AKKOL and Assist. Prof. Seçil ERMİŞ İPEK, and with the participation of artist Hasan Ali Yaldıran and graphic and painting department students, the mural painting activity on the wall of Yapraklı District Public Library was completed on December 9, 2025. The mural design features the European Roller (Coracias garrulus), one of the important bird species unique to the fauna of Çankırı. We would like to express our gratitude to Mr. Mehmet İbrahim TİTEK, the District Governor of Yapraklı, Mr. Uğur AKCAKAYA, the Head of the Secretariat, Mr. Barış KULUĞ, the librarian, and the entire Yapraklı District Governorship for their support throughout the event.
The Printed Dreams Exhibition, organized by students of the Painting Department`s print workshop and coordinated by Res. Assist. Ali Gümülcine, Ph.D., opened at the Uluyazı Campus Painting Department Exhibition Hall at 2:00 PM on Monday, December 1, 2025. Çankırı Karatekin University Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture Dean Prof. Ersoy Yılmaz, Ph.D., academics, administrative staff, and students attended the exhibition opening.
On Monday, November 24, a seminar titled “Accept Tradition, Resist Restrictions” was held by Assoc. Prof. Bahar Başak Arı and Selma Koç with the participation of Painting Department students.
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