Gözde Gazioğlu & Füsun Türetken
Gözde Gazioğlu is a cultural manager and editor working across contemporary art, editorial practice, and transnational cultural production. Her work centres on artistic projects, publishing, and transnational institutional exchange.
Since 2024, she has been a founding member and co-chair of STRÜKTÜR, a Berlin-based non-profit association working at the intersection of artistic and research-based practices. Through residencies and public programmes, STRÜKTÜR facilitates transnational exchange and collaborative inquiry across Turkey and beyond.
Prior to this, Gazioğlu worked across editorial production, communications, and EU-funded cultural programmes with institutions and organisations in London and Istanbul, including Contemporary Istanbul, İKSV, SAHA Association, and the International Biennials Association, where she served as Managing Editor of PASS Journal between 2020 and 2022.
After graduating from Sankt Georg Austrian High School Istanbul, she studied Management and German Studies at Royal Holloway, University of London and completed an MA in Art Business at Sotheby’s Institute of Art. She has also pursued further studies in contemporary art and literary theory at the University of Oxford.
Prof. Dr. Füsun Türetken is Professor at the University of the Arts Bremen and the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague.
She received her PhD from Goldsmiths, University of London, where her dissertation On the Most Powerful Catalyst on the Planet examined conflict and capital through the agency of metals. Her background spans architecture, urban studies, and visual culture, with studies in Germany, the United States, and the United Kingdom. Türetken co-curated the German Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2008 and worked for a decade as researcher, editor, and curator with Urban Catalyst, Shrinking Cities, the House of World Cultures in Berlin, the German Architecture Museum in Frankfurt and Forensic Architecture. Since 2011, she has taught internationally with a transdisciplinary approach to artistic research.
Selected Publications and exhibitions: “Where they hide the Clouds” in Acid Clouds, Niels Schrader, Roel Backert (eds.), NAI 010 Publishers, 2024; “Gold. Alchemic Desire” in Swiss Psychotropic Gold (Christoph Merian Verlag, 2020); “Neodymium Superconductive Lifelines for Metallic Monsters” in UMBAU (2022); “The Amalgamated Toxicity of Ground Zero” in Forensis (Sternberg, 2014). ‘Open for Maintenance’ German Pavilion Venice Biennale 2023, ‘Reparative Futurities’ Künstlerhaus Stuttgart 2023; ‘Artefact – This Rare Earth: Stories from Below’ STUK Leuven 2018; ‘Updating Germany’, Venice Biennale 2008; ‘Shrinking Cities’ (Tokyo, 2007 & Venice Biennale 2006 & Gallery for contemporary art Leipzig 2005).
She is also co-chair of STRÜKTÜR.
Gözde Gazioğlu and Füsun Türetken are in residency at the Tarabya Cultural Academy from June to September 2026 as part of the German-Turkish co-production program supported by the Allianz Foundation.
Gözde Gazioğlu is a cultural manager and editor working across contemporary art, editorial practice, and transnational cultural production. Her work centres on artistic projects, publishing, and transnational institutional exchange.
Since 2024, she has been a founding member and co-chair of STRÜKTÜR, a Berlin-based non-profit association working at the intersection of artistic and research-based practices. Through residencies and public programmes, STRÜKTÜR facilitates transnational exchange and collaborative inquiry across Turkey and beyond.
Prior to this, Gazioğlu worked across editorial production, communications, and EU-funded cultural programmes with institutions and organisations in London and Istanbul, including Contemporary Istanbul, İKSV, SAHA Association, and the International Biennials Association, where she served as Managing Editor of PASS Journal between 2020 and 2022.
After graduating from Sankt Georg Austrian High School Istanbul, she studied Management and German Studies at Royal Holloway, University of London and completed an MA in Art Business at Sotheby’s Institute of Art. She has also pursued further studies in contemporary art and literary theory at the University of Oxford.
Prof. Dr. Füsun Türetken is Professor at the University of the Arts Bremen and the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague.
She received her PhD from Goldsmiths, University of London, where her dissertation On the Most Powerful Catalyst on the Planet examined conflict and capital through the agency of metals. Her background spans architecture, urban studies, and visual culture, with studies in Germany, the United States, and the United Kingdom. Türetken co-curated the German Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2008 and worked for a decade as researcher, editor, and curator with Urban Catalyst, Shrinking Cities, the House of World Cultures in Berlin, the German Architecture Museum in Frankfurt and Forensic Architecture. Since 2011, she has taught internationally with a transdisciplinary approach to artistic research.
Selected Publications and exhibitions: “Where they hide the Clouds” in Acid Clouds, Niels Schrader, Roel Backert (eds.), NAI 010 Publishers, 2024; “Gold. Alchemic Desire” in Swiss Psychotropic Gold (Christoph Merian Verlag, 2020); “Neodymium Superconductive Lifelines for Metallic Monsters” in UMBAU (2022); “The Amalgamated Toxicity of Ground Zero” in Forensis (Sternberg, 2014). ‘Open for Maintenance’ German Pavilion Venice Biennale 2023, ‘Reparative Futurities’ Künstlerhaus Stuttgart 2023; ‘Artefact – This Rare Earth: Stories from Below’ STUK Leuven 2018; ‘Updating Germany’, Venice Biennale 2008; ‘Shrinking Cities’ (Tokyo, 2007 & Venice Biennale 2006 & Gallery for contemporary art Leipzig 2005).
She is also co-chair of STRÜKTÜR.
Gözde Gazioğlu and Füsun Türetken are in residency at the Tarabya Cultural Academy from June to September 2026 as part of the German-Turkish co-production program supported by the Allianz Foundation.