Oğuz Emre Bal
Understanding reality by altering it through different perspectives.
About
Barcelona–Istanbul based artist, architect, and creative technologist. Thirteen years translating the relationship between body, space, and cognition into immersive experiences, winning design strategies, and generative products. Everything follows one research thread: reality is not given but constructed — and if it can be constructed, it can be re-imagined.
Selected work
open ↗XR / Spatial · App · Product · Research
Reality Overlap XR APP
Persistent AR/XR platform for spatial collaboration in real architectural environments — spatial anchors, wayfinding, place-based memory, and a web-based spatial data analysis tool with AI-interpreted heatmaps. · 2025–present
open ↗XR / Spatial · Product · Research · App
METAKIŞLA APP - Immersive Learning
A 3D immersive building game that turns the joy of building into a hands-on education in how the world is made. · 2023–present
open ↗Product · Art · Research · Video/Animation
Solleria - Authenticated Singular Designer Clutches
A collection of one-of-one, digitally authenticated designer clutches with unique surfaces and collectible design. · 2026
open ↗Art · XR / Spatial · App · Research · Video/Animation
Meta Materials // Droplets
An avant-garde digital art project exploring materiality in virtual spaces and questioning the nature of reality. · 2022–ongoing
open ↗App · Product · Research
Solar Dial APP
The relationship operating system for people who refuse to let the people they love drift away — contacts orbit you, drifting outward as time passes, making relationship decay visible before it becomes permanent loss. · 2026 — in development
Approach
physical-digital intersection
embodied cognition
spatial memory
information as space
learning through space
How can we make learning feel like play?
Recognition
Exhibited & shown
Barcelona · Istanbul
NFT Paris 2025 — TAEX fair booth · Venice Architecture Biennale 2023 — TAEX Collectors Club · The Untitled Space — Frieze New York 2023 · TAEX Online Exhibition 'Drop 1' — Metaverse dérive: NFT Cities 2022
Connect for Creativity — Nova Iskra, Belgrade 2019 · Translocal Cooperation Digital Exhibition — British Council 2020
Istanbul, Turkey
bang. Prix 2017 — Interforms, Maslak 42 Art Space Gallery · Innovation & Entrepreneurship Week — Lütfi Kırdar Convention Center 2017
World Architecture Festival, Berlin, Germany
CYFEST 11 Special Exhibition — Venice Art Biennale 2018 · CYFEST 11 — St. Petersburg 2018 · ADAF Athens 2018 · Sónar+D Istanbul 2018 · Genç Modern — İstanbul Modern 2018 · Smartcon Istanbul 2018 · Out of the Way — 27th Istanbul Art Fair 2017 · OTOMATA — Mixer Art Gallery 2017 · Innovation Week Istanbul 2017 · bang. Prix — Istanbul 2017
Istanbul, Turkey
Istanbul, Turkey — built