EDUCATION
1980 Born in Izmir, Turkey2004-2010 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
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019 WorkSANATORIUM, Istanbul, Turkey2017 Zeyno Pekünlü
SALT ULUS, Ankara, Turkey 2015 Everything I Know
SANATORIUM, Istanbul, Turkey 2012 Osman Killed Me
SANATORIUM, Istanbul, Turkey
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022 The Real ShowCAC Brétigny, France2021 Don’t Look Back, Deep is the Past
Odunpazarı Modern Museum (OMM), Eskisehir, Turkey2021 39th EVA Internation-Ir39th EVA International-Ireland's Biennial, Little did They Know
Limerick, Ireland2021 This Place
Yapi Kredi Kültür Sanat, Istanbul Curator: Kevser Güler2021 Once Upon a Time Inconceivable
Protocinema, Istanbul Artists: Abbas Akhavan, Hera Büyüktaşçıyan, Banu Cennetoğlu, Ceal Floyer, Gülşah Mursaloğlu, Zeyno Pekünlü, Paul Pfeiffer, Amie Siegel, Mario García Torres2020 Artists in Quarantine
The museum confederation L’Internationale, Online Exibition2019 The I is always in the field of the Other
Evliyagil Museum, Ankara, Turkey2017 Vienna Contemporary Cinema Program, Vienna
Vienna, Austria2017 Das Kulturbüro
Vienna, Austria2017 Institute for New Feeling, Artist Film International
Ballroom Marfa, Texas, USA2017 Institute for New Feeling, Artist Film International
GAMeC, Bergamo, Italy2016 Institute for New Feeling, Artist Film International
White Chapel Gallery, London, UK 2016 Institute for New Feeling, Artist Film International
The Museum of Art, Architecture & Technology (MAAT), Lisbon, Portugal2016 Institute for New Feeling, Artist Film International
Tromsø Kunstforening, Tromsø, Norway2016 Archives of Violence
Kontrapunkt, Skopje 2016 The world precedes the eye
Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore, Singapore 2016 Institute for New Feeling, Artist Film International
Istanbul Modern, Istanbul, Turkey 2016 Institute for New Feeling, Artist Film International
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA2017 Are You Still Alive? Voices of Conscience at a Time of Silencing
Steirische Kulturinitiative, Graz, Austria2016 School of Kyiv
Vienna, Austria2016 Stay with Me
WOW Venue beim Kunstraum MOM, Hamburg, Germany 2016 At the Edge of All Possibles
School of Kyiv, Vienna, Austria 2015 Pretty Furious Women
Jakarta Biennale, Jakarta 2015 14th Istanbul Biennial
Istanbul2015 Political Art and Resistance in Turkey
NGBK, Berlin, Germany2015 Man to Man, Every Inclusion is an Exclusion of Other Possibilities
SALT, Istanbul, Turkey 2015 Stay with Me
Depo, Istanbul, Turkey 2015 Sights and Sounds: Turkey
Jewish Museum, New York, US2014 At the Edge of All Possibles, Lecture Performance, Maxim Gorki Theater, Berlin
2015 Istanbul: Passion, Joy, Fury
Rome, Italy2015 At the Edge of All Possibles
MAXII Museum, Rome, Italy2015 At the Edge of All Possibles
Kyiv Biennial, Kyiv, Ukraine 2015 Minima Akademika/Magnus
14th Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey 2015 At the Edge of All Possibles, Lecture Performance
NGBK, Berlin, Germany2015 Stay with Me
Apartment Project, Berlin, Germany 2014 Sublime
SANATORIUM, Istanbul, Turkey 2014 WOWMEN!
Kaaitheather, Brussels, Belgium2013 Transitio-Mx Digital Media and Video Festival
Mexico 2013 Bandits-Mages
Paris
WORKSHOPS
2020 After the Event, Rising to Surface: Practicing Solidarity Futureswith Begüm Özden Fırat, Gwanju Biennale2016 Found Footage Film Making Workshop
Istanbul Modern Museum, Istanbul, Turkey 2016 Digital Story Telling Workshop
Festival on Wheels, Ankara, Turkey 2016 Found Footage Film Making Workshop
La Salle Collage of Arts, Singapore 2015 How to remember? / How to archive? / How to continue? Workshop
Kyiv Biennial, Kyiv, Ukrayna 2015 Aesthetic-Political Action: Examples from Turkey, Armenia and Lebanon
Workshop, Depo, Istanbul, Turkey2015 Found Footage Film Making Workshop
If Istanbul Film Festival, Istanbul, Turkey 2014 Digital Storytelling Workshop
Istanbul, Turkey
EVENTS
2022 Balkan Dox CompetitionDokuFest, Pristina, Kosovo2021 Thinking Knowledge Production with and through Art
with Banu Karaca, Annual Istanbul Psychiatry Conference2021 Rethinking the Archive
Istanbul Experimental Film Festival2021 Politics and Radical Pedagogy in and beyond the Academy, CPGJ Speaker Series on Political Practice
Cambridge University2021 Found Footage and Video Practices
with Köken Ergun, The Golden Orange Film School Moderator: Ahmet Gürata2021 Artist's Approach to Permanent or Instant Information Accumulation
Part of When Nothing Happens Project, Online Presentation & Exhibition, Yellow Submarine Art Initiative, Izmir, Turkey2021 Working with Found Material
Talk with Dilek Aydin, İstanbul Edebiyat Evi, Kiraathane2021 Art and Solidarity in Times of Pandemic
Talk with Eda Yiğit, Mülkiyeliler Birliği Moderator: Onur Yıldız2021 Women, Art and Power
Talk with Gonca Özmen ve Necla Rüzgar, YKY2021 Working with Found Footage
Altyazi Cinema Magazine Discussion Series Moderation: Fırat Yücel2021 Curatorial Dialogue
RMIT Melbourne University - Curatorial Collective2021 Leaderless, Continuity in the Past and the Future
with Ceren Ergenç, Tarabya Culture Academy2020 SAHA Association Production Grand
Gwanju Biennial2020 SAHA Association Production Grand
EVA Biennial2020 Life Lessons 6
Talk with Kwasi Ohene-Ayeh, Asia Art Archive2019 After the Event
Talk and Workshop with Begüm Özden Fırat, Emerging Knowledge-1, Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain2019 The Eclipse of Strategies, Internationalism After the End of Globalization Summit
Talk, The Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Poland2019 From Collective Memory to Individual Creation: Found Footage Practices
Istanbul Experimental Film Festival, Talk, Istanbul2018 Transpositions
Talk, De Appel Arts Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands2018 Seminar Series on Philosophy Memory and Visual Arts
Talk, Istanbul2018 Miss Power, Bogazici University
Panel. Istanbul2017 International Fellow for Council Art
in collaboration with Massimiliano Mollona2017 Green Park
Athens, Greece2017 Berlin-Lause Bleibt
Berlin, Germany2017 Kyiv Docudays
Kyiv, Ukraine2017 Liepzig, Sinematek
Liepzig, Germany2017 Empros Thether
Athens, Greece2017 The Turkish Workers' Union in the Netherlands
Amsterdam, The Netherlands2017 Western University
Ontario, Canada2017 New School Public Seminar
New York, USA2017 Palais Dietrichstein
Graz, Austria2017 Trinity Square Video – re:assemblage
Toronto, Canada2017 Masculinity and Digital Knowledge Sharing, Talk
Mimar Sinan Güzel Sanatlar University, Istanbul, Turkey2017 City and Commons, Panel
With Begüm Özden Fırat and Feride Çiçekoğlu, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey2017 Representations of Masculinity in Popular Culture
Panel, Gedik University, Istanbul, Turkey 2017 Filmhuis Cavia
Amsterdam, The Netherlands2017 2017 Art as Activism in Times of Political Silencing
With Oliver Ressler, Janes Jansa, Herwig Turk, Isin Onol, Art as Activism in Times of Political Silencing, Workshop and discussion, Universität für angewandte Kunst, Vienna2017 A Good Neighbour
Public Programs Coordinator of 15. Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul2016 Henie Onstad Kunstsenter Residency
Oslo, Norway2016 FfAI (Foundation for Art Initiatives) Research Grant
2016 59th DOK Leipzig Festival
Leipzig 2016 6th QueerFest, Ankara
2016 8th Which Human Rights? Film Festival
Istanbul, Turkey 2016 Amed Film Festival
Amed, Diyarbakır, Turkey2016 22th Festival on Wheels
Ankara, Turkey 2016 Henie Onstad Kunstsenter Residency
Oslo 2015 Independent Cultural Spaces in Turkey and in Germany
Talk with Asena Günal and Çağla İlk, NGBK, Berlin2015 SAHA Association Production Grand
Jakarta Biennial 2015 SAHA Association Production Grand
Istanbul Biennial2015 Independent Cultural Spaces in Turkey and in Germany
Talk with Asena Günal and Çağla İlk, NGBK, Berlin2015 In the era of excessive information, is there anything left not represented?
Creative Time Summit 2015 Cosmopolitan Collectivism, Roundtable, Jakarta Biennale, Jakart
With Eungie Joo, Reza Afisina & Renzo Martens2015 Resistance&Resignation
Workshop organized by SALT and Van Abbemuseum, Istanbul-Ankara2015 SAHA Association Production Grand, İstanbul: Passion, Joy, Fury Exhibition
MAXXI Museum2015 Art Labor and Organization
Precarity Symposium, Koc University, Istanbul, Turkey2015 “Newly Emerged Dissidents After Gezi Resistance”
Aftermath of Gezi Resistance Symposium, Swedish Research Institute, Istanbul, Turkey2015 Aesthetic-Political Action: Examples from Turkey, Armenia and Lebanon
Depo, İstanbul2014 SAHA Association Production Grand
São Paulo Biennial 2014 25th Ankara Film Festival - 40 Videos from 40 years of video art in Turkey
Ankara, Turkey 2014 17th Flying Broom International Woman Film Festival
Ankara, Turkey 2014 Cultural Production and Property
Türker Armaner, Koray Löker, Zeyno Pekünlü, Avliye Tansuğ, Arter, İstanbul2014 Turkey and Feminism
With Bernard Bouwman, Ece Temelkuran, Meryem Ilyada Atlas and Ilyas Odman. Kaaitheater, Belgium2014 Video Art and Turkish Cinema
with CANAN, İstanbul Film Festival, Istanbul2014 Right to the City Symposium (as co-coordinator)
13. Biennial de Sao Paulo, Brazil2014 Zapata in Istanbul, Flying Broom Film Festival
Ankara, Turkey 2014 Don't Let Anyone Hear, Same Old Song
Ankara Film Festival, Ankara2014 Resistance & Resignation
With Robin Celikates, Nazim Dikbas, Jeanne van Heeswijk, Vasif Kortun, Annette Krauss, Sanne Oortshuizen, Jonas Staal, Ali Taptik organized by SALT and Van Abbemuseum, Istanbul-Ankara2014 Why Found Material?
Video Screening and Talk, Fone Film Festival, Cyprus2013 Artist Talk: Zeyno Pekünlü
Centro Multi Media, Mexico City2013 Contemporary Art and Politics
Zeyno Pekünlü, Feyyaz Yaman, Emre Zeytinoğlu, Pera Fest, İstanbul2013 Artists’s Rights in 1970’s to Today
Hüsamettin Koçan, Zeyno Pekünlü, Salt Beyoğlu, İstanbul2013 EMARE (European Media Artist Exchange) Residency
Mexico City 2013 19th Festival on Wheels
Ankara, Turkey2013 Man to Man, 7th Filmini Short Film Festival,
Bulgaria 2013 Man to Man, Kurzfilmfestival Köln – Unlimited
Germany 2013 Man to Man, 29th Festroia Film Festival
European Shorts Section, Portugal 2013 Man to Man, 12th If Istanbul Film Festival
Istanbul, Turkey 2013 Man to Man, 59. Oberhausen Film Festival
Germany