Gözde Ju

CANDYLAND | Stockholm, Sweden

SAHA supports Candyland within the scope of Gözde Ju’s solo exhibition titled Under the Same Sky between 19 September – 12 october 2025.

“Gözde Ju’s exhibition Under the Same Sky at Candyland gracefully invites the viewer, like a gaze evoking a memory that can be read, touched, and felt. Flowers, writings, photographs, and stitches rewrite migration stories of both past and present with sensitivity and a fragile yet rising strength. The search for home, the rupture of roots, the fading of faces, and their re-blooming as red chrysanthemums are transformed into a poetic yet resilient narrative—one that invites everyone to imagine, smell, and root their own red flowers, offering this experience openly to the viewer. Read through a feminist lens, Ju’s exhibition reminds us once again that it is women who carry the concept of family. The lace they weave at home, the dowries they sew, or the silent labour they sustain transform into cultural archives in the wake of migration and cultural change.”

Gözde Ju (1992, Adana) graduated from a Fine Arts High School in 2009 and later studied at Anadolu University, completing double majors in Printmaking and Painting. In 2018 she obtained her master’s degree with the thesis Spatial Searches in Contemporary Printmaking Art, which examined printmaking in the context of space and contemporary art. She also completed the course period of the Proficiency of Art Program (PhD).
The artist has taken part in various exhibitions in different countries and continues her work at her studio in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

About Candyland

Candyland, a non-profit exhibition space in Stockholm, is dedicated to contributing to the diversity of the city’s art scene by providing artists with opportunities for experimental development in their artistic projects. As an independent platform, Candyland allows artists to freely express themselves, operating outside the commercial constraints of the art market. The gallery functions through a collective model, where a group of independent individuals curates the exhibitions, fostering a flexible and open approach.