ABOUT

  • Through CHISTAM, I believe that true art does more than decorate a wall or copy a photograph. It will make you question yourself as the artist did while creating. CHISTAM? -What am I?

    Why do we need to ask this question?

    Short Answer:

    We ask CHISTAM? because true art is not about what we see — it is about what we discover in ourselves when we dare to look deeper.

    Longer Answer:

    • To inspire a deep personal connection and inner self-awareness through visual storytelling by using paintings/art as a mirror to the soul.

    • To disrupt passive looking: Most people look at art the way they scroll on a screen: quickly, without depth.
      CHISTAM? interrupts that habit. It makes the viewer engage, search, decode, and confront the hidden story — both in the artwork and in themselves.

    • To mirror the artist’s inner journey: My art is born from the process of asking myself: What am I becoming? What am I hiding? What am I afraid to lose? What truth am I discovering?
      When a viewer asks the same, artist and audience meet in the same vulnerable space.

    • To reconnect the viewer with meaning: Many people sense something is missing in modern visual culture: meaning, mystery, soul.
      This question restores that. It reminds us that art is not decoration — it is a portal to understanding ourselves.

    • To turn the artwork into a dialogue: Instead of telling the viewer what to think, CHISTAM? invites them to participate.
      They are not consumers. they are co-creators of meaning.

    • To honor the mystery of identity: “What am I?” is a question without a fixed answer.
      It evolves as we evolve.
      This is why the work stays alive, the meaning grows with the owner.

    This is my mission. This is what i stand for. This is what Studio CHISTAM Stands for.

  • I was born on September 16th, 1995, and for as long as I can remember, art has been the quiet pulse beneath everything I touched. Yet for many years, I feared the phrase “starving artist” so deeply that I tried to build my life around safer paths — architecture school in Budapest, work as a 2D animator, graphic designer, visual creator. I lived close to art, but not inside it.

    Everything changed after a deeply traumatic twelve-day event — a moment of life breaking open — one that I lived through with my closest friend, Hediye. When I left my country shortly after, painting was no longer a hobby, or a dream, or a distant version of myself. It became the only way I could continue.
    The only way meaning made sense.
    The only way life felt truthful again.

    From that moment, CHISTAM was born.

    CHISTAM means “What am I?” the question that rose from the darkest part of my journey and transformed into the foundation of my art. Each painting now carries this question within it, inviting the viewer to look deeper, peel back their inner layers, and meet themselves honestly. What once felt like a personal survival instinct has grown into my life’s work.

    My background in architecture gives structure to my compositions. My years in digital art sharpen my eye for storytelling. And my lived experiences (the painful, the beautiful, the uncertain) give the pieces their emotional spine.

    Today, I no longer fear becoming the “starving artist.”
    Instead, I feel responsible to nurture this path (the only child I will ever have, the one I choose to raise with devotion, discipline, and love.)

    I paint meaningfully because that was the promise I made to myself when everything else fell apart.
    And now, everything in my life has aligned to let me finally do the work I was always meant to do.