about
İklim Doğan (*1994, TR) is an artist and architectural theorist based in Vienna. Her work engages with art- and architecture-based historiography, juxtaposing different methods and mediums across film, fabric, installation, and writing. Conceived as a Gesamtkunstwerk, her multidisciplinary practice assembles non-linear fragments of archival and narrational origins, using them as a form of inquiry into undocumented and erased histories in both their material and media realities.
Doğan tears and stitches back common histories that are made uninteresting by the grand narratives. Her central themes are ruination and the layers of time, along with their historiography. She approaches ruination both as the process of becoming architectural ruin and as the unburying - or cracking open - of a hidden past within the palimpsests of cityscape, mythscape, and memoryscape. In her works, she overlays discrepancies by comparing sources of controversial and unconventional origins, letting matter talk back so that it may be freed from the grand narratives.
Having background in architecture, visual arts and philosophy, she received both the Grand Academy Prize for her master’s thesis in Architecture (2024) and a Recognition Prize for her diploma project in Fine Arts (2026). She has been teaching architectural theory and history, artistic research, and spatial analysis at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and the University of Vienna.
Her work has been shown at venues including the Wien Museum MUSA Startgalerie, Kunsthalle Wien Skulpturenplatz, Weltmuseum Wien, Kunsthaus Muerz, Peršman Museum, Parallel Vienna, Porgy & Bess and screened at international festivals such as DocLisboa, Diagonale, DocumentarIST, DISFF, and she has collaborated on performances at Theater am Werk and Brut Wien. In 2025, she was part of the Mentoring Programme Art. Currently she is working on an art-based research project for the BMWKMS Start Grant in Architecture, which addresses the ruinations of Antioch/Hatay in the aftermath of earthquake, ethnic cleansing, and empire.
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