Esra Nesipoğulları, 1991 Turkey, architect / multidisciplinary artist, born and raised in Turkey. Currently resident in Italy. She accomplished two residency programs in Toulouse and Marseille during the period of her BA. In 2013, she had been granted to travel to Cuba for research about the use of semi-public spaces in the socialist urbanism context. The research output later evolved into a political discourse and academic material.
After spending more than three years working in various architectural design offices in London, Istanbul, and continually Mantua, she stepped into studio practice and artistic research in 2019. she has stepped into studio practice and artistic research in 2019. Her works often respond to personal stories in cultural and political contexts through mining visual archives on the internet. She has also been part of a Think Tank that focuses on culture politics and museum studies in active collaboration with Amal Muntaser.
Education
2017-2020 Architectural Design and History, Master’s Degree, Politecnico di Milano, Mantua, Italy
2009-2015 Architecture, Bachelor’s degree, Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University,Istanbul, Turkey
Grants / Residencies
2021 TRACCE A.U.T. Rezidenza Artistica (3rd edition), Bari, Italy
2013 EAAB (Emre Arolat Researching Scholarship) Research case: Changing in the use of semi-public spaces in the scope of the period from 1951 until USSR’s disintegration Santa Clara, CUBA
2011 Mamak Housing Design Competition (2nd Mention)
Presentations / Publications
2022 Viafarini Milano Corvetto NZSD Workshop https://www.viafarini.org/470/corvetto-nzsd/
Presentation | Spatial organisations of socialism / an alternative design
2021 Archive MILANO Practices of rupture. Toward a reparative justice. https://www.archivesites.org/2021/11/18/practices-of-rupture-toward-a-reparative-justice/
Presentation | Ambaradan Think Tank : Museology as a Multidimentional Phenomenon
2020 Makoko The Amphibian City | Official entry to SEOUL Biennale’21, a collaborative to delve into acknowledging and constructing strategies for future cities.
(in collaboration with various architects, urban designers, artists, and researchers based in India, Italy, Iran, and the US)
2014 Presentation in Karaburun Science Congress | Spatial Organisation of Socialist Public Squares- Case study: Santa Clara, Cuba
kongrekaraburun.org/tam-metinler/esra-nesipogullari
2012 Presentation in Karaburun Science Congress | Urban Transformation, Urban Identity and Perception of Space
kongrekaraburun.org/category/gecmis-kongreler/kongre-2012/
Exhibition in Group
2023 QUT – Tout commence par une interruption, Le Citizen Hotel, Paris, France
2022 1989: The Postcollapse in Art and Culture, Cerritos College Art Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
2020 Monaco Art Fair Art3f – Represented by Van Gogh Gallery, Monaco, France
2020 In 24-Hours , The Wall Space Gallery, Scotland, UK
2020 In Isolation Together, Artcore Gallery, UK
2014 Des Européens rassemblés à Fontlongue, CYME Association Center, Miramas, France
Reviews / Interviews
2021 PUK podcast | episode 6 spotify.com/episode6/esra_nesipogullar
2021 Mişar art | Yetişkinler İçin Genç Sanat youtube.com/mişarart
2020 Gazetta di Mantova | esra-ha–ricostruito-ilmisterodellasoffitta