Deniz Güvensoy

Artistic, curatorial, and theoretical research

Dissertation

  • Gates and Borders as Passages and Aporias in Visual Culture, Doctoral research,University of Applied Arts Vienna, 2025
  • “Türkiye’de Kimlik İnşasının Güncel Sanat Yapıtları Bağlamında İncelenmesi,” (Analysis of Identity Construction in the Contemporary Artworks from Turkey), Advisor: Asst. Prof. Emre Zeytinoğlu, Doctorate of Fine Arts Thesis, Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, 2015
  • “Türk Resminde Bir İfade Aracı Olarak Kolaj”, “Collage as a way of expression in Turkish Painting”, Advisor: Prof. Nedret Sekban, Master of Fine Arts Dissertation, Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, 2008

Selected Publications

  • A Work in Progress, Weaving Time: Gender Labour Disrupted Chronologies, Exhibition review
  • Interview with Deniz Güvensoy, in the book Bir Porsiyon Sanat, Ed. Fatma Berber, Sümeyra Gümrah Teltik DÜŞBAZ, 2022
  • “Kunst Kebab Deneyimi, Göcmenlik ve Yemek Teması Üzerinden Toplumsal Mekanın Yeniden Üretimi”, in Varlik Dergisi, 04/2021
  • “Exhibition Strategies as Presentation of History as a Palimpsest”, Bleischwer exhibition review, Fabrikraum, Vienna, 01/2020
  • “Enstalasyon, Affect ve Kavramsal Sanat” (Installation, affects and conceptual art) Teorik Bakış, Sociology Journal, Issue 13, Kavramsal Sanat (Conceptual Art) 08/2019

Research Networks

Management Committee Member, COST Action CA25169 Justice, Arts, Memory, Migration: Creating Solidarities across Borders (JAMM), 2026–2030.

Fellowship & Grants

SEE Graduate Scholarship, Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen, Wien (IWM), 2022–2023

Conferences & Talks

  • 27-28.03.2026 “Hostage Aesthetics against the Aesthetics of Emancipation”, 19th Geo-aesthetics Conference, Towson University, College of Liberal Arts & Fine Arts, Maryland, USA
  • 03-04.12.2025 Artistic self-organization and networks of solidarity in times of crisis, Colloquium in cooperation with Office Ukraine, Department of Cultural Management und Gender Studies (IKM), MDW – University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna
  • 6.09-7.09.2025 Supercondominio 7, International meeting of independent spaces, Dogliani, Italy
  • 28-03-2025 “Navigating Borderscapes: Poros-Passage as an Aesthetic Journey”, 18th Geo-aesthetics Conference, Towson University, College of Liberal Arts & Fine Arts, Maryland, USA
  • 20.09.2024 Crossing Boundaries: Art as a Pathway to Inclusion, Amerika Haus, myCulture GmbH, Vienna
  • 17.09.2024 Who Are We? Image of Migrant Workers – Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow”, Wienwoche Festival, Depot -Kunst und Diskussion, Vienna
  • 29-30.03.2024 “Inspiration in the Border Aesthetics”, 17th Geo-aesthetics Conference, Towson University, College of Liberal Arts & Fine Arts, Maryland, USA
  • 02.02.2024 Creativity as a Political Tool Panel Discussion, Creative Disruption Event, Central European University, Vienna
  • 26.05.2023 Junior Fellowships Symposium, IWM
  • 17.03-18.03.2023 “Passage, Performance, and Border Performativity in Virtual Culture”, 16th Geo-aesthetics Conference, Towson University, USA
  • 25.09.2022 WIENWOCHE ist 11+: Dimitrova, Güvensoy, Herold, Mackuljak, Marjanović, Micić, DEPOT Kunst und Diskussion, Wienwoche Art and Activism Festival,
  • 23-24.03.2022 “Installation, Affects and Conceptual Art”, Space, Site, Installation: Philosophy, Art Theory and Art Practice Conference, Palazzo Bo, University of Padua, Italy
  • 14-15.03.2016 International colloquium | Positions: Philosophy, Research, Society, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt and Academy of Fine Arts Vienna

Workshops

  • 2024-2025 Workshop and Artist Consultation, QMA, Kunsthalle Wien
  • 22-26.05.2024, Vaha II, Transnational Networking Meeting, Berlin, vahahubs.org
  • June 2023 Class/ism & Performing Arts, Closed Workshop Group, Tanz Quartier Vienna
  • 2019 Angewandte Festival, ‘Szine’, Zine workshop with Giulio Paolini
  • 02-05.08.2018 Color Theory workshop, Pratiche Cambiano Art Festival Bosco Sociale San Palino, Brescia
  • 02-05.11.2017 Color Theory Workshop, C’è una yurta nel Bosco! Community Art Festival, Brescia

Press