Övül Ö. Durmusoglu (Turkey)

Residency: September – October 2013

Övül Ö. Durmusoglu is a curator and writer living between Berlin and Istanbul. As a Goethe Institute fellow, she organized several programs at Maybe Education and Public Programs in dOCUMENTA(13), Kassel such as "What is Thinking? Or a Taste That Hates Itself," "Readers Circle: 100 Notes – 100 Thoughts," and "Paper Mornings: Book Presentations at dOCUMENTA (13)." She has written for different catalogues, publications, and magazines including WdW Review, Frieze d/e, Flash Art International. Durmusoglu also curated Sofia Contemporary 2013, which took place in different locations of Sofia with the title "Near, Closer, Together: Exercises for a Common Ground." She is currently one of the curatorial collaborators of 13th International Istanbul Biennial.

Residency organized in frames of RE-DIRECTING: EAST project and and has been possible thanks to financial support of the City of Warsaw and Adam Mickiewicz Institute.