CURRICULUM VITAE
Zeyno Pekünlü
E-mail: zeynopekunlu@gmail.com
Research Interests
Feminist theory, masculinity studies, memory, popular culture, technologies of knowledge, technologies of self
Education
2004-2010 Proficiency in Art, Istanbul Mimar Sinan Fine Arts Academy
2007-2009 MA in Artistic Production and Research, University of Barcelona
2002-2004 MA in Painting, Istanbul Mimar Sinan Fine Arts Academy
1998- 2002 BA in Painting, Istanbul Mimar Sinan Fine Arts Academy
Work Experience
2024-2020 Coordinator of the Istanbul Cell for the Fellowship for Situated Practice for BAK, basis voor actuele kunst Utrecht
2024-2018 Coordinator of the Istanbul Biennial Research and Production Program, IKSV
2023 University of Athens, Faculty of Fine Arts, Visiting Lecturer
2023 Zeppelin University, Visiting Lecturer
2022 University of Bruno, Faculty of Fine Arts, Visiting Lecturer
2011-2015 Kultur University, Communication Design, Lecturer
2014 East Mediterranean University, Visiting Lecturer
Professional Activities
Co-founder of Art Initiative KIRIK
Board Member, Izmir Mediterranean Academy
Board Member, Institute of Radical Imagination
Editorial Board Member, Red Thread e-journal
Languages
Turkish (Native Speaker), English (Fluent), Spanish (Fluent)
Honors, Awards, Grants and Residencies
2023 SAHA Association Grand for Art Initiatives for KIRIK
2021 SAHA Association Grand for Art Initiatives for KIRIK
2020 FfAI (Foundation for Art Initiatives) Research Grant, individual
2020 SAHA Association Production Grand, EVA Biennial
2020 SAHA Association Production Grand, Gwangju Biennial
2017 International Fellow for Council Art, in collaboration with Massimiliano Mollona
2016 FfAI (Foundation for Art Initiatives) Research Grant
2016 Henie Onstad Kunstsenter Residency, Oslo
2015 SAHA Association Production Grand, Istanbul Biennial
2015 SAHA Association Production Grand, İstanbul: Passion, Joy, Fury Exhibition, MAXXI Museum
2015 SAHA Association Production Grand, Jakarta Biennial
2014 SAHA Association Production Grand, São Paulo Biennial
Individual Exhibitions
2024 All Her Sighs, Sanatorium, Istanbul
2023 Pretty Furious Women, LUC Athens
2019 Work, Sanatorium, Istanbul
2017 Zeyno Pekünlü, SALT Ulus, Ankara
2015 Everything I Know, Sanatorium, Istanbul
2012 Osman Killed Me, Sanatorium, Istanbul
Group Exhibitions
2023 Revolution Is Not a One-time Event, Tavros Space, Athens
2023 Collective Healing, Metrohan, Istanbul
2022 The Real Show, CAC Brétigny, France
2021 Don’t Look Back, Deep is the Past, Odunpazarı Modern Museum (OMM), Eskisehir
2021 39th EVA International, Ireland's Biennial, Little Did They Know, Limerick, Ireland
2021 This Place, Yapi Kredi Kültür Sanat, Istanbul
2021 Once Upon a Time Inconceivable, Protocinema, Istanbul
2020 Artists in Quarantine, The museum confederation L’Internationale, Online Exhibition
2019 The I is always in the field of the Other, Müze Evliyagil, Ankara
2017 Vienna Contemporary Cinema Program, Vienna
2017 Das Kulturbüro, Vienna
2017 Are You Still Alive? Voices of Conscience at a Time of Silencing, Steirische Kultur Initiative, Graz
2017 Institute for New Feeling, Artist Film International, Ballroom Marfa, Texas
2017 Institute for New Feeling, Artist Film International, GAMeC, Bergamo
2016 Institute for New Feeling, Artist Film International, Tromsø Kunstforening, Tromsø
2016 Institute for New Feeling, Artist Film International, White Chapel Gallery, London
2016 Institute for New Feeling, Artist Film International, The Museum of Art, Architecture & Technology (MAAT), Lisbon
2016 Archives of violence, The National Gallery of Macedonia, Skopje
2016 The world precedes the eye, Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore, Singapore
2016 Institute for New Feeling, Artist Film International, Istanbul Modern Museum, Istanbul
2016 Institute for New Feeling, Artist Film International, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
2016 School of Kyiv, Vienna
2016 Stay with Me, WOW Venue beim Kunstraum MOM, Hamburg
2015 Istanbul: Passion, Joy, Fury, MAXXI Museum, Rome
2015 Neither Back Nor Forward: Acting in the Present, Jakarta Biennale, Jakarta
2015 Kyiv Biennial, Kyiv
2015 14th Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul
2015 Political Art and Resistance in Turkey, NGBK, Berlin
2015 Every Inclusion is an Exclusion of Other Possibilities, SALT, Istanbul
2015 Stay with Me, Depo, Istanbul
2015 Sights and Sounds: Turkey, Jewish Museum, New York
Film Festivals and Screenings
2024 Without A Camera Live Event, Zeyno Pekünlü and FitiSound, Protocinema- Sanatorium, Istanbul
2022 Balkan Dox Competition, DokuFest, Pristina
2017 Green Park, Athens
2017 Berlin-Lause Bleibt, Berlin
2017 Kyiv Docudays, Kyiv
2017 Liepzig Sinematek, Liepzig
2017 Empros Thether, Athens
2017 HTİB (Hollanda Türkiyeli İşçiler Birliği), Amsterdam
2017 Western University, Ontario
2017 New School Public Seminar, New York
2017 Palais Dietrichstein, Graz
2017 Trinity Square Video – re: assemblage, Toronto
2017 Filmhuis Cavia, Amsterdam
2016 59th DOK Leipzig Festival, Leipzig
2016 6th QueerFest, Ankara
2016 8th Which Human Rights? Film Festival, Istanbul
2016 Amed Film Festival, Amed
2016 22nd Festival on Wheels, Ankara
2016 Istanbul Modern Museum, Istanbul
Conference Presentations and Invited Events
2024 Battered but Not Completely Silenced, The Art Of Staying Many, Fonds Darstellende Künste, Berlin, Keynote
2023 Learning Commons: Betül Aksu in conversation with Zeyno Pekünlü, Talk, School of Commons, Zurich University of the Arts, Talk
2023 Workshop: Collaborative and inclusive governance and funding models, Katarina Pavić and Zeyno Pekünlü, as part of The Future of European Independent Art Spaces in a Period of Socially Engaged Art Project, Workshop
2023 Working with Found Materials, Workshop, Future Art Education, ASFA, Atina, Talk
2023 Women’s Case, Circuits and Currents, Athens
2023 Approach to radical pedagogies: The school of emergencies and KIRIK, Participants: Dmitry Vilensky and Zeyno Pekünlü, Critical Nodes of Connective Tissue Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid, Talk
2022 Weaving Dreams into Realities, Talk, Dmitry Vilensky and Massimiliano Mollona, Zeppelin University, Germany, Workshop
2021 Thinking Knowledge Production with and through Art, with Banu Karaca, Annual Istanbul Psychiatry Conference, Talk
2021 Rethinking the Archive, Istanbul Experimental Film Festival, Talk
2021 Politics and Radical Pedagogy in and beyond the Academy, CPGJ Speaker Series on Political Practice, Cambridge University, Talk
2021 Found Footage and Video Practices, with Köken Ergun and Ahmet Gürata, The Golden Orange Film School, Talk
2021 Artist's Approach to Permanent or Instant Information Accumulation, part of When Nothing Happens Project, Yellow Submarine Art Initiative, Talk
2021 Working with Found Material, with Dilek Aydin, Kiraathane, Talk
2021 Art and Solidarity in Times of Pandemic, with Eda Yiğit, Mülkiyeliler Birliği, Talk
2021 Women, Art and Power, with Gonca Özmen, Necla Rüzgar, YKY, Panel Talk
2021 Working with Found Footage, Altyazi Cinema Magazine Discussion Series, Panel Talk
2021 Curatorial Dialogue, RMIT Melbourne University - Curatorial Collective, Talk
2021 Leaderless, Continuity in the Past and the Future, with Ceren Ergenç, Tarabya Culture
Academy, Panel Talk
2020 After the Event with Begüm Özden Fırat, Rising to Surface: Practicing Solidarity Futures, Gwangju Biennale, Workshop
2020 Life Lessons 6 with Kwasi Ohene-Ayeh, Asia Art Archive, Talk
2019 After the Event with Begüm Özden Fırat, Emerging Knowledge-1, Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid, Talk and Workshop
2019 The Eclipse of Strategies, Internationalism After the End of Globalization Summit,
The Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, with Charles Eshe and Angela Dimitrakaki, Panel Talk
2019 From Collective Memory to Individual Creation: Found Footage Practices, Istanbul Experimental Film Festival, Talk
2018 Transpositions, De Appel, Amsterdam, Talk
2018 Seminar Series on Philosophy Memory and Visual Arts, Istanbul, Talk
2018 Miss Power, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Panel Talk
2017 With Oliver Ressler, Janes Jansa, Herwig Turk, Isin Onol, Art as Activism in Times of Political Silencing, Workshop and discussion, Universität für angewandte Kunst, Vienna
2017 Masculinity and Digital Knowledge Sharing, Talk, Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Istanbul
2017 Representations of Masculinity in Popular Culture, Panel Talk, Gedik University, Istanbul
2017 With Begüm Özden Fırat and Feride Çiçekoğlu, City and Commons, Panel, Bogazici University, Istanbul
2016 Found Footage Film Making Workshop, La Salle Collage of Arts, Singapore
2016 Digital Story Telling Workshop, Festival on Wheels, Ankara
2016 Found Footage Film Making Workshop, Istanbul Modern Museum, Istanbul
2015 Cosmopolitan Collectivism, With Eungie Joo, Reza Afisina & Renzo Martens, Roundtable, Jakarta Biennale, Jakarta
2015 How to remember? / How to archive? / How to continue? Kyiv Biennial, Kyiv, Workshop
2015 In the era of excessive information, is there anything left not represented?, Creative Time Summit, Venice
2015 Independent Cultural Spaces in Turkey and in Germany, with Asena Günal and Çağla İlk, Panel Talk, NGBK, Berlin
2015 Newly Emerged Dissidents After Gezi Resistance, Aftermath of Gezi Resistance Symposium, Talk, Swedish Research Institute, Istanbul
2015 Art Labor and Organization, Precarity Symposium, With Süreyya Evren and Burak Delier, Koç University, Istanbul
2015 Aesthetic-Political Action: Examples from Turkey, Armenia and Lebanon, Workshop, Depo, Istanbul
2015 Found Footage Film Making Workshop, If Istanbul Film Festival, Istanbul
2014 Co-coordinator of Right to the City Symposium, 13. Biennial de Sao Paulo, Brazil
2014 With Robin Celikates, Nazim Dikbas, Jeanne van Heeswijk, Vasif Kortun, Annette Krauss, Sanne Oortshuizen, Jonas Staal, Ali Taptik, Resistance & Resignation, Workshop organized by SALT and Van Abbemuseum, Istanbul-Ankara