Zeyno Pekünlü (b. 1980, Izmir) is an artist whose artistic interventions mostly take the form of videos and installations. She previously ran the Istanbul Biennial’s Production and Research Program and the Istanbul Cell of Fellowship for Situated Practice organized by BAK Utrecht. Currently, she is working as an instructor at the Media and Visual Arts Department at Koç University. Together with Köken Ergun, she is co-founder of the KIRIK initiative. She is on the editorial board of Red Thread Journal and also a member of The Institute of Radical Imagination. Her important shows include; 2024 All Her Sighs, Sanatorium, Istanbul; 2023 Pretty Furious Women, LUC Athens; 2022 The Real Show, CAC Brétigny; 2021 Once Upon a Time Inconceivable, Protocinema; This Place, Yapı Kredi Arts and Culture; 39th EVA International-Ireland's Biennial; 2020 Artists in Quarantine, The Museum Confederation L’Internationale; 2016-2017 Institute for New Feeling, Artist Film International; White Chapel Gallery; Hammer Museum; MAAT; Istanbul Modern Museum; 2016 Zeyno Pekünlü, SALT Ulus; 2015 Istanbul: Passion, Joy, Fury, MAXXI Museum; Salt Water, 14th Istanbul Biennial; Neither Back Nor Forward: Acting in the Present, Jakarta Biennale; Every Inclusion is an Exclusion of Other Possibilities, SALT Beyoglu; Sights and Sounds: Turkey, Jewish Museum, New York.
