哈陸克．阿卡薩1970年生於土耳其安哥拉。在安哥拉比爾坎特大學修讀建築，及後在芝加哥藝術學院獲錄像及表演藝術碩士學位。現時在倫敦和紐約生活及工作，作品主要為錄像，涵蓋繪畫、建築、雕塑及聲音等元素。
阿卡薩的作品包括動畫錄像投映、壁畫和聲音裝置，結合生物、建築、幾何形象及形而上哲學，表露抽象和夢幻般的景觀。作品靈感來自多方美學，例如：塞爾特和伊斯蘭建築、裝飾藝術、科幻小說、美國漫畫和流行時尚。這些動畫的視覺質感跟電腦遊戲和流行錄像相似，而這種當代流行文化的再造，為畫廊藝術創造了一種新語言。
在《初次約會》(2004) 裡，阿卡薩運用了一套富意識形態意味的「白上白」語言。多塊幾何形體起伏浮現，在奶白色投映幕上前進後退，讓人不禁聯想起英國抽象藝術先驅賓．尼高遜(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牆。投映局限在建築物空間內，建築物的靜態現代主義與投映幕上不斷滾動的形體對立着。作品把玩着深度和平面、虛與實的空間概念。一種像幻覺似的起伏轉動，迫使觀眾對這些形象產生不同的聯想，而這作品亦表現了在平面上創造時間延績性的概念。
阿卡薩的作品曾在英國和國際間廣泛展出，包括︰戴奇主題畫廊(紐約，2009)；麥斯赫茲拉畫廊(柏林，2005)；CAAM拉斯帕瑪爾斯(西班牙，2005)；達瑪約當代藝術博物館(墨西哥城，2005)；泰特英國美術館(倫敦，2004)；巴塞爾當代美術館(2003)；惠特尼美國藝術博物館(紐約，2002)；上海雙年展及聖保羅雙年展(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.