About
“I draw the invisible geometry of dance.
When a body moves through space, it leaves traces; in the air, in memory, in form. I see the hidden architecture of that movement: the kinematics, proprioceptive diaphragms, the kinetic lines and I draw them by hand, only the body, the eye, and the mark on paper.
This is what I call a physico-visual methodology.”
Nezihe Karakaya is an Antakya-born, Istanbul-based interdisciplinary artist and researcher working at the intersection of visual art, short film, movement analysis. Her practice is built on a single inquiry: how does a moving body generate form?
She holds a PhD from Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University (July,2025), where her doctoral research developed an original physico-visual methodology for transforming choreographic work into visual art through improvisational technologies — awarded as a Type-C scientific research project by MSFAU - BAP.
Her earlier research traced a parallel inquiry: her master’s thesis at Mimar Sinan explored the visual syntax of sound, mapping the analogy between atonal music and abstract painting through Paul Klee’s concept of polyphony. This work was shaped in part by her synesthetic perception, recognized by musicologist Prof. Rokus de Groot during her studies at Codarts Rotterdam Dance Academy, Netherlands (2015).
Trained simultaneously as a painter and a contemporary dancer, she has worked across Istanbul, Rotterdam, and Kassel. Her films have screened at the Kassel Documentary Film Festival, Stockholm Dance Museum, Ethnographic Museum Warsaw, Ankara CerModern, and Goethe Institut. Her visual works have been exhibited at Vienna Essl Museum, Hahnemühle GmbH, BangArt Innovation Prix, and Redbull Creative. She is a member of the Paris International Dance Council since 2016.
By 2026, working on the expansion of the figure-pattern research.
“Figure Pattern: A Physico-Visual Methodology ©Nezihe Karakaya, 2025”
When a body moves through space, it leaves traces; in the air, in memory, in form. I see the hidden architecture of that movement: the kinematics, proprioceptive diaphragms, the kinetic lines and I draw them by hand, only the body, the eye, and the mark on paper.
This is what I call a physico-visual methodology.”
Nezihe Karakaya is an Antakya-born, Istanbul-based interdisciplinary artist and researcher working at the intersection of visual art, short film, movement analysis. Her practice is built on a single inquiry: how does a moving body generate form?
She holds a PhD from Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University (July,2025), where her doctoral research developed an original physico-visual methodology for transforming choreographic work into visual art through improvisational technologies — awarded as a Type-C scientific research project by MSFAU - BAP.
Her earlier research traced a parallel inquiry: her master’s thesis at Mimar Sinan explored the visual syntax of sound, mapping the analogy between atonal music and abstract painting through Paul Klee’s concept of polyphony. This work was shaped in part by her synesthetic perception, recognized by musicologist Prof. Rokus de Groot during her studies at Codarts Rotterdam Dance Academy, Netherlands (2015).
Trained simultaneously as a painter and a contemporary dancer, she has worked across Istanbul, Rotterdam, and Kassel. Her films have screened at the Kassel Documentary Film Festival, Stockholm Dance Museum, Ethnographic Museum Warsaw, Ankara CerModern, and Goethe Institut. Her visual works have been exhibited at Vienna Essl Museum, Hahnemühle GmbH, BangArt Innovation Prix, and Redbull Creative. She is a member of the Paris International Dance Council since 2016.
By 2026, working on the expansion of the figure-pattern research.
“Figure Pattern: A Physico-Visual Methodology ©Nezihe Karakaya, 2025”
Short Films
Events
DokFest online will be until 26 November. Nezihe Karakaya's Debris City short film will be screened and will make premiere on 40.Kasseler Dokfest. The film is about destroying earthquake on South Turkey which focuses artist's hometown Antakya.
