Biography and practice

Following architectural studies at Bilkent University, he studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Royal College of Art. His work was presented at institutions including MoMA PS1, the Whitney Museum of American Art and Tate Britain, and he participated in the 2002 São Paulo Biennial. In 2006, The Sky Is the Limit, developed for Fremont Street in Las Vegas, brought animation into public space on an architectural scale.

Akakçe’s colourful, dreamlike and continually transforming worlds create an encounter between painting and technology. Following his death in 2023, his practice remains significant to thinking across the boundaries of contemporary art’s different media.