Ülkü Süngün
Ülkü Süngün (born 1970 in Istanbul, Turkey) is a sculptor, curator and research-based activist who lives and works in Stuttgart, where she studied sculpture at the State Academy of Fine Arts. In her artistic practice, she works with process-oriented and collaborative approaches to migration and identity politics as well as memory. To this end, she uses media such as sculpture, installation, photography, video and performance art. With the “Institute for Artistic Post-Migration Research”, founded in 2017, she makes her artistic research and social and socio-critical practice structurally visible and uses spaces nomadically. The memorial she designed for deported Jews at Killesbergpark in Stuttgart was realized in 2013. Most recently, she exhibited sculpture at the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart as part of the Kubus Sparda Art Prize and won the audience award. Her works are part of the Europe-wide touring exhibition “Offener Prozess” on the NSU complex and racist continuities in Germany. 2022-2023 she taught sculpture and digital media as a substitute professor at the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart. In 2024 she was a scholarship holder of the state of BW at the Cité internationale des arts in Paris.
Ülkü Süngün is a scholarship holder at the Kulturakademie Tarabya from October 2024 to January 2025.
Ülkü Süngün (born 1970 in Istanbul, Turkey) is a sculptor, curator and research-based activist who lives and works in Stuttgart, where she studied sculpture at the State Academy of Fine Arts. In her artistic practice, she works with process-oriented and collaborative approaches to migration and identity politics as well as memory. To this end, she uses media such as sculpture, installation, photography, video and performance art. With the “Institute for Artistic Post-Migration Research”, founded in 2017, she makes her artistic research and social and socio-critical practice structurally visible and uses spaces nomadically. The memorial she designed for deported Jews at Killesbergpark in Stuttgart was realized in 2013. Most recently, she exhibited sculpture at the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart as part of the Kubus Sparda Art Prize and won the audience award. Her works are part of the Europe-wide touring exhibition “Offener Prozess” on the NSU complex and racist continuities in Germany. 2022-2023 she taught sculpture and digital media as a substitute professor at the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart. In 2024 she was a scholarship holder of the state of BW at the Cité internationale des arts in Paris.
Ülkü Süngün is a scholarship holder at the Kulturakademie Tarabya from October 2024 to January 2025.