About
Başak Tuna, Istanbul, is a critical spatial practitioner, currently based in Rome, graduated in 2021 from the Design Academy Eindhoven with an MA in Contextual Design.
Her work investigates grids concerning technology, power relations, and bureaucracy. Coming from an industrial design education background, her artistic research feeds itself from the agency of everyday objects; she dissects, documents, intervenes, adds, substructs, overlays, and uses reverse engineering to materialize.
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Recent Exhibitions and Projects ︎︎︎
Başak Tuna, Istanbul, is a critical spatial practitioner, currently based in Rome, graduated in 2021 from the Design Academy Eindhoven with an MA in Contextual Design.
Her work investigates grids concerning technology, power relations, and bureaucracy. Coming from an industrial design education background, her artistic research feeds itself from the agency of everyday objects; she dissects, documents, intervenes, adds, substructs, overlays, and uses reverse engineering to materialize.
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Recent Exhibitions and Projects ︎︎︎
2021
No Sleep, Group Exhibition, Eindhoven NL, Curated by Artist/Designer Run Studio- The Foot
While We Are Waiting, Design Academy Eindhoven Graduation Show- Dutch Design Week, Group Show, Eindhoven NL
Downtown Daydreaming, Upward Public Walk, KunstlerHaus Stuttgart DE, with Matteo Locci, curated by Maximilian Lehner
“Faceva la plus pulchra tempestas von der welt”, Upward Public Walk, 5020 Gallerie, Salzburg AU, with Matteo Locci curated by Maximilian Lehner
Merdivenler, Utopia and Island-Group Exhibition, Bozcaada TR, curated by Meliha Coşkun
While We Are Waiting, Design Academy Eindhoven Graduation Show- Dutch Design Week, Group Show, Eindhoven NL
Downtown Daydreaming, Upward Public Walk, KunstlerHaus Stuttgart DE, with Matteo Locci, curated by Maximilian Lehner
“Faceva la plus pulchra tempestas von der welt”, Upward Public Walk, 5020 Gallerie, Salzburg AU, with Matteo Locci curated by Maximilian Lehner
Merdivenler, Utopia and Island-Group Exhibition, Bozcaada TR, curated by Meliha Coşkun
2020
Hide and seek for the control room, video performance, Freiraum Festival, Goethe Institute with Matteo Locci and Natalia Agathi
Fences, Artist, “CHEAP Festival”- Street Art Festival, Bologna IT, Collectively Curated
Education ︎︎︎
Fences, Artist, “CHEAP Festival”- Street Art Festival, Bologna IT, Collectively Curated
2019
Roma Non Esiste, project coordination by DOM, 1 of 25 Performers, Rome ITEducation ︎︎︎
2021-2019
MA-Contextual Design, Design Academy Eindhoven, Eindhoven NL
2016-2012
BA-Industrial Design Department, Faculty of Architecture, Cum Laude, İstanbul Bilgi University, Istanbul TR
Selected Work Experience ︎︎︎
2019
Exhibition Production Management, A School of Schools, LUMA, Arles FR
2018
Exhibition Production Management and Venue Responsible, A School of Schools, 4. Design Biennial Istanbul, IKSV, Istanbul TR
2017
Artin’s School, Design Collective, Co-Founder/ Designer, Istanbul TR
Exhibition Coordinator Assistant, Are We Human?, 3. Design Biennial Istanbul, IKSV, Istanbul TR
Exhibition Coordinator Assistant, A Good Neighbor, 15. Istanbul Biennial, IKSV, Istanbul TR