After graduation from the Department of Architecture at TOBB ETU, Zeynep Demirhan completed her master’s thesis in the Department of Cinema and Television at Istanbul Bilgi University. Her article titled “Urban Environments and Agnès Varda’s Genius loci,” co-authored with Kennedy Karpat, was published by Bloomsbury, England in the book “The Sustainable Legacy of Agnes Varda.”
Her artistic practice examines various states of existence, forms of forgetting and remembering, and relationships between subjects and spaces through semi-documentary narratives using photography, video, sound, and performance works. These works interrogate the boundaries between private and public spaces while revealing the ambiguous territory between reality and fiction.
Her photography works have been exhibited at the Venice Architecture Biennale, ShopigoArt, Mamut Art Project, Base Istanbul, and Art Ankara. In 2022, her short documentary film “Faces” was selected as a finalist and won awards at national and international film festivals.
Filmography
2022, Faces/Yüzler, 8'
Exhibition
2024, İrtibata İntibak (Video Exhibition) CoBAC Workspace
2023, Pac-man, Single Image, Venice Biennale, 18th International Architecture Exhibition, Group Exhibition, Venice Turkey Pavilion
2023, Imprint, Single Image, ShopigoArt Group Exhibition, Tavern/ Istanbul
2022, There, Photography Series, Group Exhibition, Mamut Art Project, Bomontiada, Istanbul, Art Ankara & Cathan Art Hotel
2022, Faces, 8’ Short Documentary, Group Exhibition, Base Istanbul, Akaretler, Istanbul
2020, Betweenness, Photography in the Time of Corona Atelier, Group Exhibition, Online
2019, Labyrinth 3, Group Exhibition, KA Atelier, Ankara
2019, Representing Itself (Getty Keeping It Modern Project Team), Group Exhibition, METU Faculty of Architecture, Ankara
2018, Türel Saranlı The First Year Design Education at METU Symposium and Exhibition, Group Exhibition, Ankara
Atelier, Workshops, Jury
2024, Photographer, 212 Photography Festival, Control and Fall Atelier
2024, Director, Istanbul Cinècollective
2024, Director, I. International Symposium on Women in Audiovisual Culture, Salt Galata
2024, Jury, 42. Istanbul Film Festival, Short Film Category Jury
2023, Jury, Cali Koy Short Film Festival, Short Film Category Pre-jury
2023, Jury, Altin Safran Documentary Film Festival, Short Film Category Jury
2023, Lecturer, FTV 539 - Filmic Philosophy and Practice, Istanbul Bilgi University
2022, Lecturer, METU ARCH 190 Summer Practice - Model Making Workshop Summer’22 “Presentation on Architectural Model Photography
2021, Lecturer, METU ARCH 190 Summer Practice - Model Making Workshop Summer’21 “Presentation on Architectural Photography”
2020, Attendees, Gender Equality and Sustainability: Agnès Varda’s Sustaining Legacy Conference, Istanbul Bilgi University
2019, Participant, KA Atelier, Laybrinth 7
2018, Participant, Immersive and Responsive Environments Workshop in METU
2017, Participant, Materiart / The Figure, TOBB ETU