Murat Germen

Murat Germen is an artist, educator and archivist born in 1965, living and working in Istanbul, who uses photography as a means of expression/research. He received his master's degree in architecture from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he was a Fulbright Scholar, with the American Institute of Architects (AIA) Gold Medal. He teaches photography, art and new media at Sabancı University Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Germen, who has many printed / online publications on photography, architecture, planning, new media and art
, has been invited to dozens of conferences internationally.

His oeuvre focuses on issues such as the effects of over-urbanization and gentrification, property / dispossession, new forms / devices / methods of imperialism, participatory citizenship, urban rights, sustainability of local cultures, human destruction of nature, climate change, global warming, water rights. Cultural heritage, local archiving, documentation as an act of collecting evidence, personal memory / collective memory conflicts, dynamics between betrayals and relics are some of the central concepts in the artist's works. Representation, simulation, various interpretations of history, promises of objectivity, sovereign networks are among the concepts Germen frequently questions.

He has published two monographic books, Skira (Italy) and From MASA (Turkey). He has contributed to more than one hundred solo / group exhibitions in Turkey, USA, Italy, Germany, England, Mexico, Portugal, Uzbekistan, Greece, Japan, Russia, Ukraine, Poland, Bulgaria, Iran, India, Australia, France, Canada, Bahrain, Korea, Dubai, China, Sweden, Switzerland, Egypt, Sweden, Switzerland and Egypt. Numerous editions of different works by the artist have been included in personal collections at home/abroad and in the collections of Istanbul Modern, Project 4L Elgiz Museum of Contemporary Art, Toruń Contemporary Arts Center (Poland), Benetton Foundation's Imago Mundi - Istanbul Codex, Yapı Kredi Culture and Arts, Odunpazarı Modern Museum, Museum Evliyagil.