CURRICULUM VITAE
Zeyno Pekünlü
Phone: (+90) 533 541 74 51
E-mail: zeynopekunlu@gmail.com
Education
2004-2010 PhD in Painting, 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
Languages
Turkish (Native Speaker), English (Fluent), Spanish (Fluent)
Honors, Awards, Grants and Residencies
2020 SAHA Association Production Grand, Gwangju Biennial
2020 SAHA Association Production Grand, EVA International 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
2013 Ministry of Culture, General Directorate of Cinema Support for Short Documentary
2013 EMARE (European Media Artist Exchange) Residency, Mexico City
Research Interests
Feminist theory, masculinity studies, memory, popular culture, technologies of knowledge
Individual Exhibitions
2018 Work, Sanatorium, Istanbul
2016 Zeyno Pekünlü, Salt Ulus, Ankara
2015 Everything I Know, Sanatorium, Istanbul
2012 Osman Killed Me, Sanatorium, Istanbul
Group Exhibitions
2022 The Real Show, CAC Brétigny, France
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 Exibition
2020 Istanbul Biennial Online Screening Programme
2020 Bilsart Video Screening Programme, Istanbul
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 Archives of Violence, Kontrapunkt, Skopje
2016 School of Kyiv, Vienna
2016 Freundschaftsspiel (Agar Ugur Collection), Schau_Raum, Museum für Neue Kunst, Freiburg
2016 Stay with Me, WOW Venue beim Kunstraum MOM, Hamburg
2015 İstanbul: 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
2015 Stay with Me, Apartment Project, Berlin
Film Festivals and Screening
2020 SİNEMA TRANSTOPIA, Bi’Bak, Berlin
2020 Istanbul Experimental Film Festival, Istanbul
2017 Kyiv Docudays, 2017
2017 Liepzig, Sinematek, 2017
2017 Empros Thether, Athens, 2017
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 22nd Festival on Wheels, Ankara
2016 59th DOK Leipzig Festival, Leipzig
2016 6th QueerFest, Ankara
2016 8th Which Human Rights? Film Festival, Istanbul
2016 Masculinities Yesilcam to YouTube: Zeyno Pekünlü Video Screening, 22th Festival on Wheels, Ankara
2016 Zeyno Pekünlü Video Screening, Istanbul Modern Museum, Istanbul
Conferences, Seminars, Invited Talks, Workshops
2021 Thinking Knowledge Production with and through Art, with Banu Karaca, Annual Istanbul Psychiatry Conference
2021 Rethinking the Archive, Istanbul Experimental Film Festival
2021 Politics and Radical Pedagogy in and beyond the Academy, CPGJ Speaker Series on Political Practice, Cambridge University
2021 Found Footage and Video Practices, with Köken Ergun and Ahmet Gürata, The Golden Orange Film School
2021 Artist's Approach to Permanent or Instant Information Accumulation, part of When Nothing Happens Project, Yellow Submarine Art Initiative
2021 Working with Found Material, with Dilek Aydin, Kiraathane
2021 Art and Solidarity in Times of Pandemic, with Eda Yiğit, Mülkiyeliler Birliği
2021 Women, Art and Power, with Gonca Özmen, Necla Rüzgar, YKY, Talk
2021 Working with Found Footage, Altyazi Cinema Magazine Discussion Series
2021 Curatorial Dialogue, RMIT Melburne University - Curatorial Collective
2021 ‘’Leaderless’’ Continuity in the Past and the Future, with Ceren Ergenç, Tarabya Culture Academy
2020 After the Event, with Begüm Özden Fırat, Rising to Surface: Practicing Solidarity Futures, Gwanju Biennale, Workshop
2020 Life Lessons 6 with Kwasi Ohene-Ayeh, Asia Art Archive, Talk
2020 The Nature of the Visual Protest in a Changing World, Columbia University, Panel
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, Talk
2019 From Collective Memory to Individual Creation: Found Footage Practices, Istanbul Experimental Film Festival, Talk
2018 Transpositions, De Appel, Amsterdam, Talk
2018 Archiving for Future Strategies, Akbank Sanat, Istanbul
2018 Miss Power,Bogazici University, Istanbul, Panel
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 You and Me, Artist Talk with Dilek Aydın, 5533, Istanbul
2017 Masculinity and Digital Knowledge Sharing, Talk, Mimar Sinan Güzel Sanatlar Üniversitesi, İstanbul
2017 Representations of Masculinity in Popular Culture, Panel, Gedik University
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 With Eungie Joo, Reza Afisina & Renzo Martens, Cosmopolitan Collectivism, Roundtable, Jakarta Biennale, Jakarta
2015 How to remember? / How to archive? / How to continue? Workshop, Kyiv Biennial, Kyiv
2015 In the era of excessive information, is there anything left not represented?, Creative Time Summit, Venice
2015 With Asena Günal and Çağla İlk, Independent Cultural Spaces in Turkey and in Germany, Talk,NGBK, Berlin
2015 Newly Emerged Dissidents After Gezi Resistance, Aftermath of Gezi Resistance Symposium, Swedish Research Institute, Istanbul
2015 With Süreyya Evren and Burak Delier, Art Labor and Organization, Precarity Symposium, Koc 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
