Lara Ögel

Lara Ögel (b. 1987) works with sculpture, installation, and moving image to explore how we navigate shifting and unstable worlds. Rooted in feeling, mythology, memory, and material, her practice draws on personal narratives and universal symbols. Her research unfolds through literature, archaeology, and belief systems – guided by intuition and serendipity – and reflects on how we place ourselves in the world and make meaning. Ögel’s environments open poetic, sensorial spaces where the mythic and the everyday, the personal and the collective, transact in a shared visual language. Her works dwell in what resists articulation – consciousness, transformation, and the entangled conditions of being. She completed her BA in Film and Communications at Clark University. She attended the Intensive Summer Foundation at London Slade School of Fine Arts.

Her most recent solo exhibitions include ‘Echo’, Bilsart, 2023; ‘Starry Heavens Above Me and Within Me’, Galerist, 2023; ‘Verses on Water’, Ariel Art, 2019; ‘Public Confidentiality’, Şekerbank Açıkekran, 2019; ‘İmtidâd’, Galata Greek School Open School Library, 2018; ‘Go Back! All is Forgiven’, Protocinema, Paris, 2016; and ‘The Happy Average’, Öktem Aykut, 2014. Recently, Ögel’s works have been included in the group exhibitions 'The Volcano Lover', Galerist, 2025; 'Distilled From Scattered Blue', Galerist, 2024; 'Healing Ruins', Zeyrek Çinili Hamam, 2023; ‘Collective Healing’, Metrohan, 2023; 'Rounded by Sleep’, Arter, 2022; 'The Promise of Grass' 5th Mardin Biennial, 2022; 'This Place' Yapı Kredi Culture and Art, 2021; 'At the End of the Day' OMM, Eskişehir, 2020; 'Mushrooms', Somerset House, London, 2020; ‘I remember;’, Hannah Barry Gallery, London, 2019; ‘Great Meadow’, riverrun, 2018; ‘Driftwood, or how we surfaced through currents’, Athens, 2017. She took part in residency programs at Delfina Foundation (London), Cité Internationale des Arts (Paris), PRAKSIS (Oslo), Beirut Art Residency (Beirut).

Lara Ögel lives and works in Istanbul.