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 context, the research output became a political discourse and academic material later on. Along with working over three years in several architectural design studios, in London, Istanbul, and continually in Mantua, since 2019 she has stepped into studio practice and artistic research. 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

Presentation | Spatial organisations of socialism / an alternative design

https://www.viafarini.org/470/corvetto-nzsd/

2021 Archive MILANO Practices of rupture. Toward a reparative justice.

Presentation | Ambaradan Think Tank : Museology as a Multidimentional Phenomenon

https://www.archivesites.org/2021/11/18/practices-of-rupture-toward-a-reparative-justice/

2020 Makoko | The Amphibian City

Official entry to SEOUL Biennale’21, a collaborative to delve into acknowledging and constructing strategies for future cities. This was a project done in collaboration with various architects, urban designers, artists, and researchers based in India, Italy, Iran, and the US.

2014 Presentation | Karaburun Science Congress

Spatial Organisation of Socialist Public Squares- Case study: Santa Clara, Cuba

kongrekaraburun.org/tam-metinler/esra-nesipogullari

2012 Presentation | Karaburun Science Congress

Urban Transformation, Urban Identity and Perception of Space

kongrekaraburun.org/category/gecmis-kongreler/kongre-2012/

Exhibition in Group

2022 1989: The Postcollapse in Art and Culture, Cerritos Collage 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 Red Cube, CYME Association Art Center, Miramas, France