Holding the position of director of the Istanbul Scholarship of Berlin Senate (1995 – 2013), and founder of the Art Management Department of the Yıldız Technical University Art and Design School (1998 – 2002), Beral Madra has worked with national and international artists in more than 500 exhibitions in various institutions and public spaces in Turkey and abroad since 1984. Publications of Beral Madra, who is also the founder of International Art Critics Association (AICA) Turkey (2003), consist of “Identity of Contemporary Art” (1987); “Post-peripheral Flux-A Decade of Contemporary Art in Istanbul” (1996); “İki Yılda Bir Sanat (Essays on Biennale)” (2003); “Neighbors in Dialogue” (2005); “Maidan – Essays on Contemporary Art in the South Caucasus and the Middle East”, (2007); and “Home Affairs, Essays on Contemporary Art in Turkey”, (2009).