Merve Ünsal

Ayvalık, June 2025

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Merve Ünsal

Ayvalık, June 2025

Merve Ünsal is an artist who lives and works in Istanbul. She works around methods of tuning in. She thinks through the media of photography, video, radio, sound, performance, and site-specific installations. She has shown her work in a variety of contexts across the world, most often through artist-driven initiatives in Beirut, Berlin, Cairo, New Delhi, Toronto; she has been supported by the Delfina Foundation (London), Praksis (Oslo), Fogo Island ArtsArt Metropole (Toronto), and University of Delaware (Lewes) to participate in artist residencies. She took part in the learning program at Ashkal Alwan (Beirut), Homework Space in 2014-2015.

Ünsal is the founding editor of the artist-centered platform m-est.org. She co-facilitated the Arter Research Programme, 2019-2021.