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Ece Pazarbaşı is a curator, advisor and educator living in Istanbul and Berlin. After graduating from the Department of American Culture and Literature at Bilkent University in 1998, she completed Master′s degree in the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture at Bilkent University in 2001.
From 2001-2003 Pazarbaşı acted as an assistant director at Proje4L-Istanbul Museum of Contemporary Art. In 2002-2009, she worked as an executive assistant of director at the Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center, where she has been assigned on several different freelance projects. She was the assistant curator of the 52nd Venice Biennial Turkish Pavilion (2007), director of the on-going education and festival program Meeting Point since 2007, project manager of "Orhan Pamuk: Museum of Innocence" for Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt (2007-08), and Contemporary Art Exhibitions director at Pera Museum (2005-2006). In 2009-2010, she worked as Consultant and Program Specialist of Visual Arts for Turkey at the Strategic Planning and Development Department for Abu Dhabi Authority for Culture and Heritage, UAE.
Since 2007, Pazarbaşı has been curating public space projects and Audio Tours in the urban and rural domains. She had the privilege being part of Institute for Spatial Experiments with Prof. Olafur Eliasson, Eric Ellingsen, and Christina Werner. Recently, Pazarbaşı worked as Istanbul Coordinator for New Museum New York′s Ideas City: Istanbul project. She has curated The Silent Shape of Things-Sophia Pompery exhibition at ARTER Istanbul (2012), Turkish Art New and Superb (2012) and Zwölf im Zwölften (2011) exhibitions in TANAS – Berlin together with René Block. She was the co-founder and the co-director of CUMA /// Contemporary Utopia Management (2008-2012) where she was the originator, curator and director of its artistic projects. Pazarbaşı is a recipient of the 2014 TCF Cultural Exchange Fellowship. She is lecturing at New York Transarts Institute′s Summer Academy in Berlin.
Awards:
2014, Turkish Cultural Foundation, Cultural Exchange Fellowship
2013, Institution for Spatial Experiments with Prof. Olafur Eliasson, Research Fellowship Grant, Berlin
2011, RAVE Scholarship for Curators, IFA Institüt für Auslandsbeziehungen Germany
2011, IETM-International Network for Contemporary Performing Arts, Mobility Grant
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