Selected works
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Ertuğrul Güngör & Faruk Ertekin — Kütahya, Türkiye
A ceramic artist duo firing five centuries of Kütahya tradition together with pop culture, literature and mythology — in underglaze, 18k gold and neon.
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Placed in private collections
SoldUnderglaze, 18k gold · 220 × 160 cm · 2024
SoldUnderglaze on ceramic tiles · 94 × 74 cm · 2025
SoldUnderglaze on ceramic · 170 × 10 cm · 2023
Selected works now in private collections. For available pieces, contact Anna Laudel or view the full catalogue on Artsy.
Grab & throw the strip
Where the tile becomes a screen
Before mineral and fire, the composition lives on a screen. Here the duo build layered digital narratives — Anatolian figures, mythological clouds, a miniature city cradled on a fountain — drawn with the same freehand line that meets the glaze. The tablet and the kiln are both tools in this studio; neither is more authentic than the other.
Tap the tiles — tradition flips to now
Every surface carries two stories. One was inherited. One is theirs.
Ertuğrul Güngör (b. 1994) — the hand that knows the kiln. Trained in ceramics at Akdeniz University with an MA in the field, he carries Kütahya's classical disciplines: underglaze pigment, glaze chemistry, sculptural form.
Faruk Ertekin (b. 1994) — the line that comes from now. Trained in graphics, working across illustration, murals and digital media, he brings figures from pop culture and literature onto the tile as if they always belonged there.
Childhood friends from Kütahya, shaped from the same clay and fired together — their practice is one conversation held in glaze: tradition speaking, the present answering.
Istanbul · Bodrum · Düsseldorf
…between leaving and breaking Current
With Ramazan Can — cultural memory & identity
Fired Together: From One Clay, Two Vessels Form
First comprehensive European solo
Breakers of Vases
Summer exhibition at ZAİ Yaşam
Untraditional
Gallery debut — İznik tiles & contemporary figures
Studio & process
Come closer
to the fire.
