Asli Seven

Asli Seven is an independent researcher, curator and writer based between Istanbul and Paris. She investigates the mutually generative relationship between fiction and reality, with a focus on infrastructure, landscape and alternative pedagogies, emphasizing methods of fieldwork and co-creation. In 2024-25 she co-curated How To Hold Your Breath – 9th Asian Art Biennial in Taichung, Taiwan. Among her recent exhibitions are Under Two Suns, a selection of 66 works by 45 artists from Odunpazari Modern Museum’s collection (OMM, Eskisehir, Turkey 2023-2024); [ELEKTROIZOLASYON]: Unknown Parameter Extro-Record, solo exhibition by Emre Hüner curated at Arter Museum (Istanbul, 2021-2022) and Live Among and Turn Together, group exhibition and performance series curated at Galerie La Box (Bourges, France, 2021). Since 2020 she has acted a guest lecturer for MFA students at MoCo ESBA Montpellier, France and Sotheby’s Institute of Art, London covering fiction and fictionality in contemporary art production with an emphasis on the emergence of narrative, organic and systemic forms in exhibitions. She holds a doctoral degree on Artistic Research from ENSA Bourges and EESI Poitiers-Angouleme and a Research MA in Political Science from Université Paris 1 – Sorbonne. She is a member of AICA (International Association of Art Critics), C-E-A (French Association for Curators) and an alumni of Independent Curators International (ICI) through her participation in the Curatorial Intensive in Philippines (2016).