Derya Yücel
Curator, art writer, a member of AICA Turkey (International Association of Art Critics). She completed her Art Management BA (2006), Museum Studies MA (2010) and Art History PhD (2022) She worked as a lecturer at Istanbul Kultur University between 2006-2017. She has been working at Istanbul Bilgi University Art and Cultural Management Department since 2009 Derya Yücel is director of exhibition projects of Sabancı University KASA Gallery since January 2015, She is working as an independent curator since 2004 and some of these projects are “Korea-Turkey Contemporary Art Exchange exhibitions” Incheon/Seoul/Istanbul 2006-2007, “Save As” Milano Trienale Bovisa Italy ( 2008), “28. Contemporary Artists Istanbul Exhibition” Akbank Sanat Istanbul (2009), “Nil Yalter” Vienna Galerie Hubert Winter (2011), “Reunion” Sabancı Museum Istanbul (2015), “Formless”, Istanbul- Belgrade (2014-2015) , “All the Lights We Cannot See” Galerist Istanbul (2017), “Semiha Berksoy with Love” O'Art (2017), “Home” Museum Evliyagil Ankara (2017), BASE New Artist Platform Exhibitions (2017-2022), “Song of Timelessness” Zindankapı Art Bursa (2021), “AMBIGUOUS” Vision Art Platform İstanbul (2022), “Oeuvre and Grace” Erimtan Archeology and Art Museum, Ankara (2022), “The Insanity of Normality”, Kun Art Space Adana (2022). She curated the 4th Mardin Biennial, which took place in May 2018, together with Nazlı Gürlek and Fırat Arapoğlu. She was the consultant of the industrial heritage "Cendere Sanat", which was restored and re-functionalized by İBB Heritage, and curated the opening exhibition “Witness of the Flow” with Ebru Yetişkin and Marcus Graf.