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Fatoş Üstek was born in Ankara in 1980. After receiving her BA in Mathematics and the Film Studies at Bogazici University, Üstek received her master′s degree at the Contemporary Art Theory Department of Goldsmiths College London in 2008. She worked as an assistant at Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Centre, Istanbul (2002-2003); as an exhibition coordinator at Galerist, Istanbul (2003-2004); as a curatorial assistant at Portikus, Frankfurt am Main (2006); and as a freelance writer at Frankfurter Kunstverein (2007). She received curatorial residencies at Tent, Rotterdam (2008-2009); press to exit project space, Skopje (2009); Stacion – Centre for Contemporary Art, Pristine (2010). Juxtaposing formations of science and arts, Üstek’s curatorial practice follows thematic investigation of concepts, such as ‘now’, ‘time-presence’, ‘agency-subject’, emerging as collaborative projects with artists, writers and curators.
She currently works as an associate curator 10th Gwangju Biennial, 2014; guest tutor at Vision Forum, Linkopings Universitet, Sweden; regular contributor to magazines Art Review, Camera Austria International, RES Art World / World Art and Art Papers. She is a core member of artistic research group OuUnpO and leads research projects La Duree with Per Huttner, I N F R A with Anna Gritz under the framework of Vision Forum. Üstek lives and works in London. She is a member of AICA TR and ICI alumni.
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