Rüzgâr Buşki
Rüzgâr Buşki, born in Istanbul is a Berlin based artist whose practice focuses on printmaking, video, and performance. They explore themes such as belonging, affect, identity, desire, and tradition. Buşki hacks old media with contemporary topics, reclaiming materials such as wood and stone as exchangeable mediums. Their works have been shown in numerous spaces and institutions, including documenta14 — Parliament of Bodies, DOK Leipzig, Translations Seattle Transgender Film Festival, Schwules Museum, Badischer Kunstverein, Silent Green, Galerie Wedding, and Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien. They have received several accolades, including the Close-Up Program Fellowship for NonFiction Cinema (2020-2021), the first prize of the Karl Hofer Society Grant (2019), and the Zeliş Deniz Queer Cinema Award at Pink Life Queer Film Festival (2019). Buşki graduated with a Meisterschüler title from the class of Prof. Dr. Hito Steyerl at Berlin University of Arts.
Artworks
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As a preamble to a larger card game about Muslim-Jewish conviviality and post-nation-state futures, Rüzgâr Buşki and Anna Lublina present hand-printed works inspired by ketubah art and the tiles of Al-Aqsa Mosque. Each piece embodies the textures of coexistence within ancestral worlds—music, printing, food, or art—and examines how these forms have been dissected or altered to fit Western cultural grammars, or disappeared in the name of ethno-nationalism.