Gülşah Mursaloğlu completed her BA in Sociology at Boğaziçi University in Istanbul and received her MFA degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. In her works, she explores materiality, matter’s agency, and human and non-human temporalities. Her installations, which emerge after an in-depth and extensive research process, remain unstable in form and manifest themselves as dynamic and fluid systems through their ephemeral nature. Her recent projects investigate sleep as a realm that defies acceleration and optimization, eggshells as vessels that enable life, and the ways in which humans voluntarily and involuntarily eat/devour/consume the earth and the underground.
Recent exhibitions include “Downtime, Spread too Thin”, SANATORIUM, Istanbul (2025); “I Only Work with Lost and Found”, Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Berlin (2024); “Vicious Cycle”, Art Laboratory Berlin (2023); “Memory in Our Bones”, Green Art Gallery, Dubai (2022); “Once Upon a Time Inconcievable”, Protocinema, Istanbul (2021) and “3rd Industrial Art Biennial”, Labin, Croatia (2020). She took part in artist residencies and fellowships such as Goldrausch Künstlerinnenprojekt, Berlin (2024); Arnis Residency (2022); SAHA Studio, Istanbul (2020); sundaymorning@ekwc, Oisterwijk, Netherlands (2019) and Istanbul Biennial Production and Research Programme, Istanbul (2018-19).