I am an artist, curator, and researcher, with master’s degrees in sociology from the University of Vienna and the University of Mugla (TR), as well as in fine arts from the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. My practice includes historical research, installation, video essay, editorial and curatorial work. I explore issues of memory, borders, economical arenas of global war, and landscape based on historical events, personal and institutional archives, and contemporary developments. My works unfold between spaces, colors, objects, and bodies and deal with shifts in the meaning of places and their social structure. The fragmentary narratives and images are my artistic method as an attempt to address the question of which and whose stories gain visibility.
In 2018 and 2020, I curated the exhibition krieg kuratieren (curating war) at Dessous Wien and the Kunstraum Innsbruck, which dealt with the practice of exhibiting and organizing of wars as well as the question of artistic perspectives in the politics of memory. I was on the editorial board of the art magazine Bildpunkt (2016 - 2019)and a board member of IG Bildende Kunst (2016 - 2020). Since 2019 I have been an editorial member of the online magazine MIGRAZINE - Online Magazine by Migrant Women for Everyone.
I am a Ph.D. researcher at the Institute for Art and Cultural Studies at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. I worked there as a lecturer and teaching assistant between 2020-2022. Currently, I am university assistant (pre-doc) and a lecturer at the Department for Transcultural Studies at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. I teach in the field of research methodologies.
I also offer conceptual training in video and photo art for advanced levels.
For CV/artist portfolio contact me at: ezgi.erol(at)posteo.net
2023 - 2021 Scholarship, Residency, Research
2023, Marietta Blau-Grant, Federal Ministry of Education, Science, and Research, Austria.
(February - May 2023 and February - May 2024, visiting scholar, VRC, Department of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University, USA.
August - November 2023, visiting researcher at the various archives and libraries in Beirut, Lebanon).
2023, Fellowship for International Communication, Austrian Research Association (ÖFG).
(Research stay in the USA: visiting researcher in various museum archives, including Baltimore Museum of Art, Worcester Art Museum.
12/2021 - 8/2022, Istanbul Biennial Production and Research Program, IKSV.
07 - 09/2021, Residency for Artistic Research, Das Dock 20 - Kunstraum und Sammlung Hollenstein, Lustenau.
2021, ArtStart Scholarship, The Mentoring Program, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.
2020 - 2021, Studio Scholarship, Creative Cluster, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.
I am an artist, curator, and researcher, with master’s degrees in sociology from the University of Vienna and the University of Mugla (TR), as well as in fine arts from the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. My practice includes historical research, installation, video essay, editorial and curatorial work. I explore issues of memory, borders, economical arenas of global war, and landscape based on historical events, personal and institutional archives, and contemporary developments. My works unfold between spaces, colors, objects, and bodies and deal with shifts in the meaning of places and their social structure. The fragmentary narratives and images are my artistic method as an attempt to address the question of which and whose stories gain visibility.
In 2018 and 2020, I curated the exhibition krieg kuratieren (curating war) at Dessous Wien and the Kunstraum Innsbruck, which dealt with the practice of exhibiting and organizing of wars as well as the question of artistic perspectives in the politics of memory. I was on the editorial board of the art magazine Bildpunkt (2016 - 2019)and a board member of IG Bildende Kunst (2016 - 2020). Since 2019 I have been an editorial member of the online magazine MIGRAZINE - Online Magazine by Migrant Women for Everyone.
I am a Ph.D. researcher at the Institute for Art and Cultural Studies at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. I worked there as a lecturer and teaching assistant between 2020-2022. Currently, I am university assistant (pre-doc) and a lecturer at the Department for Transcultural Studies at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. I teach in the field of research methodologies.
I also offer conceptual training in video and photo art for advanced levels.
For CV/artist portfolio contact me at: ezgi.erol(at)posteo.net
2023 - 2021 Scholarship, Residency, Research
2023, Marietta Blau-Grant, Federal Ministry of Education, Science, and Research, Austria.
(February - May 2023 and February - May 2024, visiting scholar, VRC, Department of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University, USA.
August - November 2023, visiting researcher at the various archives and libraries in Beirut, Lebanon).
2023, Fellowship for International Communication, Austrian Research Association (ÖFG).
(Research stay in the USA: visiting researcher in various museum archives, including Baltimore Museum of Art, Worcester Art Museum.
12/2021 - 8/2022, Istanbul Biennial Production and Research Program, IKSV.
07 - 09/2021, Residency for Artistic Research, Das Dock 20 - Kunstraum und Sammlung Hollenstein, Lustenau.
2021, ArtStart Scholarship, The Mentoring Program, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.
2020 - 2021, Studio Scholarship, Creative Cluster, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.