Tuçe Erel

Tuçe Erel is a Berlin-based curator and art writer. She studied Sociology at METU (2005, Ankara), received her MA from Anatolian University in 2009, and her second MA in Arts Policy and Management (with curating pathway) from Birkbeck College, UK, in 2015. Erel worked for art magazines, as content editor, archivist and gallery assistant, since 2015 as curator internationally. In 2017 February she co-curated Now You are Here with Seval Sener at Arte Sanat (Ankara) and curated Fabric/ate at Schneidertempel (Istanbul). She facilitated artists’ talks, short-term/pop-up exhibitions at >top Transdisciplinary Project Space (Berlin) throughout 2018. In 2019, she curated Hactivate Yourself in 1a Space in Hong Kong. Since January 2017, she is a member of >top Transdisciplinary Project Space, where she hosted the Posthumanism reading group between 2018 and 2020. Her curatorial interests are archiving practices, posthumanism, anthropocene, ecocriticism, and post-digital theories. Since December 2019, she is a team member of Art Laboratory Berlin, collaborating on current and future curatorial projects and concepts.