Zeynep Boyan

Zeynep Boyan (b. 1994, Adana) is a Turkish-Dutch artist based in Munich who works primarily with clay, using hand-building techniques to make abstract, biomorphic sculptures that suggest gestures, postures and partial references to the human body. She studied Radio, Television and Cinema at Yeditepe University in Istanbul and has developed her sculptural practice since 2021.

Guided by research in somatic movement, Boyan treats sculpture as an embodied practice, exploring what remains after contact — the traces left in the body, memory and material. Through gaps, voids, attached pedestals and interconnected forms she examines how sculptures, supports and spaces shape one another, reflecting on vulnerability, care and coexistence; her work has been shown in London, Berlin, New York, Paris, Copenhagen and Montréal.