I am an artist, curator, and researcher with master’s degrees in sociology from the University of Vienna and a diploma in fine arts from the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. My practice encompasses historical research, installation, video essays, editorial work, and curatorial projects. I explore issues of memory, borders, intersectionality, the economic landscapes of global conflict, diaspora and the impact of historical events on contemporary developments, drawing from personal and institutional archives. My work navigates the intersections of spaces, colors, objects, and bodies, addressing shifts in the meanings of places, landscapes, and their social structures. I use fragmentary narratives and images as an artistic method, questioning which stories—and whose—are brought to light.
In 2018 and 2020, I curated the exhibition krieg kuratieren (Curating War) at Dessous Wien and Kunstraum Innsbruck, which examined the practice of exhibiting and organizing wars, as well as the role of artistic perspectives in the politics of memory. I served on the editorial board of the art magazine Bildpunkt (2016–2019) and was a board member of IG Bildende Kunst (2016–2020). From 2018 to 2023, I was also an editorial member of MIGRAZINE - Online Magazine by Migrant Women for Everyone.
I am currently a Ph.D. researcher at the Institute for Art and Cultural Studies at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, where I taught the course 'Feminist Positions in Times of Conflict in Contemporary Art' and served as a teaching assistant for the courses 'Philosophy and Aesthetic Theory I & II' between 2020 and 2022. Since July 2022, I have been a university assistant in the Department of Transcultural Studies at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, where I teach research methodologies. The theoretical component of my courses covers discourses in postcolonialism, cultural imperialism, intersectionality, and aesthetics.
My dissertation, which I began in 2019, focuses on the American-French excavations at Antioch and Daphne from 1932 to 1939, examining the convergence of Western aesthetics, intersectionality, and epistemic violence. I have received several grants for my research, including the Marietta Blau Grant from the Austrian Agency for International Mobility (OeAD) for 2023–2024, a fellowship for international communication from the Austrian Research Association (ÖFG) in 2023, and the GO.INVESTIGATIO Archive and Travel Grant from the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) for 2024–2025. My fieldwork has taken me to the USA, France, Lebanon, and Turkey, where I have conducted research in archives such as the Department of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University, the Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures-Museum at the University of Chicago, and the Institut français du Proche-Orient (Ifpo) in Beirut, Lebanon. I am currently an ÖAW Fellow, conducting research across institutions in Turkey and France. For some interviews and forthcoming presentations, see Press OR News
For CV/artist portfolio contact me at:ezgi.erol(at)posteo.net or visit here
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I am an artist, curator, and researcher with master’s degrees in sociology from the University of Vienna and a diploma in fine arts from the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. My practice encompasses historical research, installation, video essays, editorial work, and curatorial projects. I explore issues of memory, borders, intersectionality, the economic landscapes of global conflict, diaspora and the impact of historical events on contemporary developments, drawing from personal and institutional archives. My work navigates the intersections of spaces, colors, objects, and bodies, addressing shifts in the meanings of places, landscapes, and their social structures. I use fragmentary narratives and images as an artistic method, questioning which stories—and whose—are brought to light.
In 2018 and 2020, I curated the exhibition krieg kuratieren (Curating War) at Dessous Wien and Kunstraum Innsbruck, which examined the practice of exhibiting and organizing wars, as well as the role of artistic perspectives in the politics of memory. I served on the editorial board of the art magazine Bildpunkt (2016–2019) and was a board member of IG Bildende Kunst (2016–2020). From 2018 to 2023, I was also an editorial member of MIGRAZINE - Online Magazine by Migrant Women for Everyone.
I am currently a Ph.D. researcher at the Institute for Art and Cultural Studies at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, where I taught the course 'Feminist Positions in Times of Conflict in Contemporary Art' and served as a teaching assistant for the courses 'Philosophy and Aesthetic Theory I & II' between 2020 and 2022. Since July 2022, I have been a university assistant in the Department of Transcultural Studies at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, where I teach research methodologies. The theoretical component of my courses covers discourses in postcolonialism, cultural imperialism, intersectionality, and aesthetics.
My dissertation, which I began in 2019, focuses on the American-French excavations at Antioch and Daphne from 1932 to 1939, examining the convergence of Western aesthetics, intersectionality, and epistemic violence. I have received several grants for my research, including the Marietta Blau Grant from the Austrian Agency for International Mobility (OeAD) for 2023–2024, a fellowship for international communication from the Austrian Research Association (ÖFG) in 2023, and the GO.INVESTIGATIO Archive and Travel Grant from the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) for 2024–2025. My fieldwork has taken me to the USA, France, Lebanon, and Turkey, where I have conducted research in archives such as the Department of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University, the Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures-Museum at the University of Chicago, and the Institut français du Proche-Orient (Ifpo) in Beirut, Lebanon. I am currently an ÖAW Fellow, conducting research across institutions in Turkey and France. For some interviews and forthcoming presentations, see Press OR News
For CV/artist portfolio contact me at:ezgi.erol(at)posteo.net or visit here
© Unless otherwise stated, all images and texts on this website and their copyrights are the intellectual property of Ezgi Erol.
Images and texts may not be reproduced or reused without Ezgi Erol's permission. See Impressum