哈陆克．阿卡萨1970年生于土耳其安哥拉。在安哥拉比尔坎特大学修读建筑，及后在芝加哥艺术学院获录像及表演艺术硕士学位。现时在伦敦和纽约生活及工作，作品主要为录像，涵盖绘画、建筑、雕塑及声音等元素。
阿卡萨的作品包括动画录像投映、壁画和声音装置，结合生物、建筑、几何形象及形而上哲学，表露抽象和梦幻般的景观。作品灵感来自多方美学，例如：塞尔特和伊斯兰建筑、装饰艺术、科幻小说、美国漫画和流行时尚。这些动画的视觉质感跟计算机游戏和流行录像相似，而这种当代流行文化的再造，为画廊艺术创造了一种新语言。
在《初次约会》(2004) 里，阿卡萨运用了一套富意识形态意味的「白上白」语言。多块几何形体起伏浮现，在奶白色投映幕上前进后退，让人不禁联想起英国抽象艺术先驱宾．尼高逊(1894–1982)早期的白色浮雕，又或者是勒‧柯布西耶的廊香教堂那穿通的外墙。投映局限在建筑物空间内，建筑物的静态现代主义与投映幕上不断滚动的形体对立着。作品把玩着深度和平面、虚与实的空间概念。一种像幻觉似的起伏转动，迫使观众对这些形象产生不同的联想，而这作品亦表现了在平面上创造时间延绩性的概念。
阿卡萨的作品曾在英国和国际间广泛展出，包括︰戴奇主题画廊(纽约，2009)；麦斯赫兹拉画廊(柏林，2005)；CAAM拉斯帕玛尔斯(西班牙，2005)；达玛约当代艺术博物馆(墨西哥城，2005)；泰特英国美术馆(伦敦，2004)；巴塞尔当代美术馆(2003)；惠特尼美国艺术博物馆(纽约，2002)；上海双年展及圣保罗双年展(2002)。
Haluk Akakçe was born in Ankara, Turkey in 1970. He studied architecture at Bilkent University in Ankara, and then received an MFA in video and performance at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He currently lives and works in London and New York where he mainly produces videos which incorporate elements of painting, architecture, sculpture and sound.
Haluk Akakçe’s work includes animated video projections, wall paintings and sound installations, revealing abstract and dream-like landscapes where biology, architecture, geometry and metaphysics coexist. The works draw from an eclectic set of aesthetic references: Celtic and Islamic architecture, Art Deco, science-fiction, American comic books and current fashions. The visual texture of the animations is familiar from computer games and pop videos, yet this reclamation of a form of contemporary popular culture creates a new formal language for gallery-based art.
In Blind Date (2004) Akakçe employs an ideologically laden white on white language. The endlessly mutating geometric reliefs which emerge and retreat from the milky white ground recall pioneering British abstract artist Ben Nicholson’s (1894–1982) early white reliefs, or the pierced façade of Le Corbusier's chapel at Ronchamp. The projection works within the architectural confines of the space, the contrast between the static modernism of the building and the endless scrolling forms on the screen plays with the idea of depth and flatness, of positive and negative spatial values. A kind of hallucinatory rolling motion forces the viewer to bring their own associations to the forms, while the work demonstrates the idea of creating duration within a plane.
Akakçe has exhibited extensively in Britain and internationally. Selected exhibitions include Deitch Projects, New York, 2009; Max Hetzler Gallery, Berlin, CAAM Las Palmas, Spain, and Museo Tamayo de Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City, 2005; Tate Britain, London, 2004; Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel, 2003 and The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Shanghai Biennial and the Bienal de São Paulo, 2002.