SEDA YILDIZ

Seda Yıldız, born 1989 in Istanbul, is a visual artist and freelance writer. Currently, she is a master’s student in the professors Broomberg & Chanarin photography class at HFBK, University of Fine Arts, Hamburg. Her work, ranging from video, artist book, photography to installation mainly deals with historical, social and polit- ical narratives. She is interested in open questions, in the poetics of politics and frequently resorts to humour and abstraction as a tool in her artistic practice.

She has exhibited her work in Turkey, Switzerland, Sweden, Austria and has taken part in various publishing, curatorial and editorial projects. In 2017, Seda curated the New Photography II, Medium in New Ways exhibition at Alan Istanbul, gathering twelve international, emer- ging and established artists from Turkey, Germany, Netherlands, Poland, Spain and UK. Her writings have been published in Brownbook Magazine and Kajet – a journal of Eastern European encounters.

Seda Yildiz curated the Parallel Exhibition Thing, Aura, Metadata. A Poem on Making at PhotoIreland, Dublin