Upcoming Project: Swimming and Walking…
The first Swimming ~ Writing ~ Walking workshop was held in October 2025 within the Kaş Performance Days Artist Residency Program in the Mediterranean Sea in Türkiye.
More will follow in 2027 on embodied methods in artistic research…
Shared Walks
The Shared Walks walkshops offer various perspectives through playful walking prompts compiled in card sets that focus on different themes and help us connect to ourselves, others and the environment in different ways.
Shared Walks for Urban Dreaming (2026) to reveal urban unconscious
Shared Walks | Ways of Knowing (2024) for intercultural philosophy
Shared Walks | Futures (2023) for collective imagination
Shared Walks | Climate Change (2021) for ecological awareness
Shared Walks (2018) for urban participation and dialogue
The Politics of the Balcony in Contemporary Art
The ongoing PhD research on The Politics of the Balcony in Contemporary Art at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna explores the visual politics of public space and art practices that deal with political histories.
A short essay on The Political Balcony as “Difficult Heritage” was published in 2025.
The research idea is rooted in the handmade book Fall From A Balcony (2018/2020), which was prepared by intervening in various media photographs of balcony speeches to question the relations between space and power in recent history and today.
The Home Series
Home Sketches are a series of ink drawings of interconnected houses, created throughout the lockdowns during the coronavirus outbreak in 2020.
They were first exhibited as part of the #TheVoidCity project at Kunsttankstelle Ottakring within the Grundstein So Sind Wir Exhibition in Vienna in June 2021.
The Home Book 1: 40 evden geçmeden yolunu bulamayanlar (those who can’t find their way without going through 40 homes), a handmade artist book that engages with the image of home to explore belonging and our relationship to space, was first exhibited as part of the 46 group exhibition within the Edirne Biennale in June 2026.
The Memory and Arts & Truth Justice Memory Center
The Memory and Arts project (2018-2021) aimed to open up discussions through contemporary artworks dealing with human rights in Türkiye.
Based on a selection/archive of more than 400 contemporary artworks and public program, Talks and Memory and Arts 2020 was published.
By examining examples from the selection/archive, the chapter “Human Rights, Memory and Contemporary Artistic Practice in Turkey” was published in the volume Curating as Feminist Organizing (2023).
My collaboration with Hafıza Merkezi continued with The Shrinking Democratic Space Report (2022), examining the restraints placed on civil society organisations in Türkiye.
Walk May Talk
Walk May Talk is a program looking at different aspects of walking as an artistic practice through a series of talks and walks, screenings, interactive performances, workshops and walkshops. It aims to create a space for exploration, discussion and inspiration in dealing with different issues through walking.
Initiated and co-curated by Eylem Ertürk and Bernd Rohrauer, the first program of Walk May Talk was organised in collaboration with the Social Design Studio and the Angewandte Library at the University of Applied Arts Vienna throughout May 2019.
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