Zeyno Pekünlü

Bio

Zeyno Pekünlü (Izmir, Turkey, 1980) graduated and completed her doctoral degree in Painting at Mimar Sinan Fine Art University (Istanbul), and obtained a master’s degree in Artistic Production and Research at the University of Barcelona. She is based in Istanbul and currently running the Production and Research Program of the Istanbul Biennial (ÇAP) for young artists and researchers. She is part of the editorial board of e-journal Red Thread and member of the Institute of Radical Imagination (IRI). Scanning a range of issues, from the construction of maleness and femaleness as gender roles to the constitutive myths of citizenship and nation, questioning knowledge and its distribution, her works aims to decipher “power” that encompasses the intimate and the social simultaneously.