Mimiko (Gözde ‘Mimiko’ Türkkan) (1984, Turkey) holds a BA in Photography & Video from Istanbul Bilgi University and an MA in Fine Art from Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London. Working primarily with video and performance, her multidisciplinary practice explores gender roles, the body, resilience and resistance, power, and violence. In her recent work, waves function as a conceptual framework—understood as bodily, affective, and political forces—offering a fluid, ever-changing, interrelational and non-binary way of understanding the world and relationships.

With over fifteen years of experience exhibiting locally and internationally, she was selected for the Cité Internationale des Arts residency in Paris in 2024. She gained wider recognition through her video work Earth Fight, which continues to be extensively presented across Turkey, France, Spain, Greece and Italy. In 2024, she participated in the 15th Havana Biennial, followed by the 15th Shanghai Biennale in 2025. In the same year, she was invited by the Council of Europe to speak at the World Forum for Democracy.

Alongside her artistic practice, she is engaged in sports and social change as a co-founding member of a sports and body-based rights association, and as the founder of SyncSociety, a phygital art network which creates and propagates content for the visibility of artists.