Övül Ö. Durmuşoğlu is a curator, writer, and educator working on constructive critiques of civilization, sustainability of intersectional futures, and practices of togetherness. She co-leads Art in Discourse program at Braunschweig University of Art. Durmuşoğlu recently curated two major monographic exhibitions: Pauline Boudry and Renate Lorenz’s Portrait of a Movement at CA2M, Madrid, and Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm (2022–23), and Katrina Daschner’s Burn&Gloom, Glow&Moon: Thousand Years of Troubled Genders’ at Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna (2022), also editing their publications. Between 2021 and 2023 she co-curated the 3rd the 4th editions of Autostrada Biennale in Kosovo with Joanna Warsza. Earlier, she taught as a guest professor at Universität der Künste Berlin Graduate School; curated programs within the 10th, 13th, and 14th Istanbul Biennials; worked as a curator for steirischer herbst 2018; and coordinated and organized different programs and events at Maybe Education and Public Programs for dOCUMENTA (13). She lives and works in Berlin.
Övül Ö. Durmusoglu
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