- Title
BB’s Art History Map
- Artist
- Bedri Baykam
Bedri Baykam's “BB’s Art History Map” proposes art history not as a one way chronology but as a broad network of encounters between cultures, periods and competing narratives.
Bedri Baykam began his career as a child artist and later expanded his practice across painting, installation, video, performance, writing and debates around art history. Following studies in Paris and California, he became closely associated with Neo Expressionist painting in Türkiye during the 1980s and developed a sustained critique of Western centered narratives of art.
“BB’s Art History Map” turns that critical position into an information map. First developed as an educational tool in the early 1990s, it places artists, movements, events and cultural shifts within one dense timeline. Canonical figures of Western art appear alongside names and histories from other geographies. This coexistence is central to the work. Baykam presents art history not as a closed genealogy but as a plural system shaped by influence, conflict, exchange and continual revision.
