Bio

Kübra Boy (b. 1990, Sakarya) is an Istanbul-based contemporary artist working with Turkish tile art. She studied in the Department of Traditional Turkish Arts (Traditional Turkish Tile Art) at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University between 2010 and 2017.

Boy approaches Turkish tile art not simply as a historical craft, but as a conceptual medium. Her work focuses on the fractures within the relationship between the modern human and nature, exploring the boundaries between body, culture, and environment as shifting and unstable structures.

By moving beyond its decorative function, she redefines the tiled surface as a site of intervention, fragmentation, and reconstruction. Her practice brings together sculpture, relief, found objects, and discarded materials, creating a tension between inherited techniques and contemporary expression.

Her participation in the inaugural edition of BASE in 2017 marked an important turning point in her practice. The exhibition allowed her approach to Turkish tile art as a contemporary medium to reach a wider audience, contributing to its reconsideration within a contemporary art context.

She continues her practice in her studio in Kadıköy, Istanbul