Vit à : Paris , France
Originally from Istanbul, Yasemin Köker who currently lives in Paris. She holds a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in art history and history from the Université Lyon Lumière II. She is a participant of the Curatorial Studies 2024-2025 program at Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Ghent. Between 2021 and 2022, she served as an artist liaison at Galeri Nev İstanbul (Istanbul) before working at Zilberman Gallery (Istanbul, TR) as program manager, where she also contributed to the gallery’s publications as an editor. She was a part of the team at La Loge (Brussels, BE) as a curatorial and communication intern, under the supervision of Antoinette Jattiot. She currently develops her own curatorial projects independently and oversees Galeri Nev’s (Ankara) exhibition projects in Europe. Her collaborations in visual and contemporary art are informed by critical theories, feminist and queer perspectives, by using research becomes a tool to explore how art can open perspectives on contemporary social and political issues. Her recent curatorial projects include Touching you I catch midnight (Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, 2025), Eye Becomes Water (Het Paviljoen, Ghent, 2025) and Now on Display (Zilberman Selected, Istanbul, 2024). Member of AICA Turkey, she regularly writes for independent art publications.
For some time I’ve been standing, co-curator, Kunsthal Gent, Gand (BE)
Artists: Chupan Atashi, Manon de Boer, Michael Kleine and Brigitte Louter
Public programme public: Emma Ydiers and Astrid Specht Seeberg
Eye Becomes Water, exhibition and public programme, Het Paviljoen, Ghent (BE)
Co-curated with Daphné Charitos, Natalija Gucheva, Abel Hartooni, Temitayo Olalekan, and Jean Watt
24 Hour Swan Lake
Artist: Sanie Irsay
Crying could be a solvent
Artists: Soraya Abdelhouaret and Shervin/e Sheikh Rezaei
that slab of outlaw time
Artists: Reinier Vranken, Amel Omar and Zeynep Kayan
But I’m a Cheerleader
Artist: Sacha Rey
Touching you I catch midnight, solo exhibition of Yaz Taşçı, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris (FR)
Now on Display, co-curated with Ece Ateş, Zilberman Selected, Istanbul (TR)
Artists: Sena Başöz, Yane Calovski, Aslı Çavuşoğlu, Itamar Gov, İz Öztat & Ra, Judith Raum, Simon Wachsmuth and Dilek Winchester