Rifat Baltaoglu started his carer as an architect after completing his education at Yıldız Technical University in 1990. Since then, Rifat has signed hundreds of architectural and interior design projects across Tel Aviv, Frankfurt, Istanbul, Çeşme, and Bodrum winning awards for his projects.
Rifat still works as an architect in his office in Istanbul in addition to his career as an artist, which started in 2018.
Rifat used his architectural style and material knowledge in his artworks, they are mainly born from recycled materials with the idea, now more important than ever, that everything deserves a second life. Instead of creating waste, his main purpose is to enhance everyday objects and materials through the artwork creation process, transforming objects that have satisfied their original use into pieces of art with a new purpose.
His artistic expression by using these objects is a new way of defining the word “sustainability” in a modern way, by reducing the amount of old objects going to landfill.