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I’m Berkay Güngörmüş, an artist reimagining traditional wall carpets through modern visual language. My work blends pastoral and industrial motifs, machines, landscapes, and symbols of progress, drawn into nostalgic textures that question beauty, value, and change.
Artist Statement – Berkay Güngörmüş
My work centers on hand-painted wall rugs that merge traditional Eastern European tapestry aesthetics with a contemporary visual language. This medium carries a deep personal resonance for me: as a child, I often saw similar rugs in my grandmother’s home. Their colors, motifs, and quiet presence shaped my earliest sense of visual memory. Today, I revisit that world not as nostalgia, but as material, something to deconstruct, reinterpret, and confront.
Each piece becomes both an object of comfort and a place of tension. The softness of textile art stands in deliberate contrast to the symbolic imagery of conflict and serenity woven onto its surface. Through these oppositions, I explore how beauty and violence coexist within cultural memory, how inherited forms can reveal the emotional complexity of the present.
Rather than offering answers, my work invites contemplation. These rugs act as subtle provocations, challenging everyday dichotomies and encouraging viewers to look beyond the familiar. In this intersection of personal memory and collective history, I aim to evoke honest emotional responses and open new ways of seeing.
Berkay Güngörmüş
Gallery: The Old Pond – Prenzlauer Allee 223, Berlin
Contact: artgallerypond@gmail.com
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