Ece Pazarbaşı works and walks on the merged borderline of curatorial practice and artistic research as her main profession. Her practice revolves around interdisciplinary crossovers which results in alternative formats of education. With a special interest in the multi-layered approach, she has realised many projects over the issues of sound, urbanism, digital and analogue public space, participatory art, food and the technologies of the human body. In 2019, she has founded the Field Kitchen Academy, a one-of-its-kind interdisciplinary educational residency program, that aims at transcending the existing borders between research and practice; beyond forms and formats with innovative experimental tools and experiences on holistic knowing and thinking. In 2014, she has established Berlin Art Grant Clinic, where she coached more than 2200 artists, curators, NGOs and creative minds for self-sustainability and fund raising.
Her curatorial experiences include “Spooky Distance” 8.Uckermark Festival (2023); “Cabinet of the Unknown” exhibition Werkbundarchiv - Museum der Dinge (2017); “Bank Blank” main exhibition of 48 hrs Neukölln with Stephan Klee (2018); “Memory Plates” within the frame of Festival of Future Nows at Hamburger Bahnhof (2017); “Muscle Memory” Kunstraum Bethanien/ Kreuzberg (2017); “12/12” and “Turkish Art Nice and Simple” exhibitions at Tanas Berlin (2011-2012) together with René Block. She was the assistant curator of the 52nd Venice Biennial Turkish Pavilion (2007).
She worked with New Museum - New York for Ideas City: Istanbul (2012) as project coordinator and in 2009-2010 she worked as the Consultant and Program Specialist of Visual Arts for Turkey at the Strategic Planning and Development Department for Abu Dhabi Authority for Culture and Heritage, UAE.
In 2016, she has received Kulturstiftung des Bundes’ 18-month special stipend for International Curators and she was privileged to be awarded a research grant from Olafur Eliasson’s Institution for Spatial Experiments (IFREX) in 2013. Among her artistic positions are her work in Neue National Galerie Berlin Festival of Future Nows within in the scope of "Sticks and Stones" an intervention by David Chipperfield (2014); TELL ME WHAT YOU EAT and I tell you where you live a project at Wilhelm Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen (2014).
