The Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture (FADA) is celebrating its 40th anniversary with “Intersections” (“Kesişimler”), an exhibition on view at CerModern in Ankara from September 29 to October 7.
Founded in 1986 as one of Bilkent University’s first faculties, FADA comprises the Departments of Graphic Design, Fine Arts, Interior Architecture and Environmental Design, Communication and Design, Urban Design and Landscape Architecture, and Architecture. The exhibition brings together works from all six, spanning different generations, disciplines and creative practices.
“Intersections” features selected works by the faculty’s graduates and academics—among them Haluk Akakçe, Bedri Baykam, Engin Öncüoğlu, Meltem Şahin and Ardan Özmenoğlu—ranging from earlier periods to the present, alongside projects, publications, documents, archival materials and new works. Rather than presenting the faculty’s history as a single linear narrative, the exhibition follows creative trajectories that intersect, diverge and reconverge over time, as well as the intellectual, professional and personal relationships formed within the faculty that continue beyond graduation.
