Esra Ersen • CV

Esra Ersen
Lives and works in Berlin

Member of BBK Berlin – The professional association of visual artists Berlin
Member of VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn

Education

1999/00 Ecole Beauxs-Arts de Nantes, Post-Diplom Program, Nantes, France

1993/95 Marmara University The Faculty of Fine Arts, Post Graduate, Istanbul, Turkey

1988/92 Marmara University The Faculty of Fine Arts, Istanbul, Turkey

Selected Grants and Residencies

2025 Gabriele Münter Prize, Short List→

2023 Konrad von Soest Prize, LWL-Museums für Kunst und Kultur, Münster→

2023 NeustartPlus-Stipendium, Stiftung Kunstfonds→

2022 Neustart Kultur-Stipendium, Stiftung Kunstfonds→

2019 The Rome Prize 2019/2020, Villa Massimo, Deutsche Akademie Rome, Italy→

2015 Kulturakademie Tarabya, Istanbul, Turkey→

2013 Civitella Ranieri Visual Arts Fellowship, Civitella Ranieri Center, Umbertide, Italiy→

2009 Berliner Senats Arbeitsstipendium für Bildende Kunst→

2005 Delfina / Visiting Arts, International Fellowship Programme, London, UK→

2004 Casino Luxembourg-Forum d’art Contemporain, Luxembourg→

2004 Rooseum Center For Contemporary Art, Malmö, Sweden→

2001 IASPIS, Stockholm, Sweden→

1999 Ecole Beauxs-Arts de Nantes,Post-Diplom Program, Nantes, France→

1999 Die Kulturstiftung Schloss Wiepersdorf, Brandenburg, Germany→

1998 NRW-fondation, Künstlerdorf Schoppingen, Münsterland, Germany→

1998 ACC Gallery and Stadt Weimar, Weimar, Germany→

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2023 A Possible History, LWL-Museum für Kunst und Kultur, Münster, curated by Dr. Marianne Wagner

2022 Heritage, Gallery Françoise Heitsch, München

2019 What We Know, Swimming Pool, Alma Mater Gallery and National Library, Sofia, curated by Viktoria Draganova

2015 A Possible History, Esra Ersen, SALT Ulus, Ankara, Turkey, curated by Vasıf Kortun

2013 Landed, Richmond Art Gallery, British Columbia, Canada, curated by Nan Capogna

2011 Kunstverein Ahlen, Ahlen, Germany

2010 Passengers, Yapı Kredi Culture and Art, Istanbul, Turkey, curated by René Block

2009 Passengers, Tanas, Berlin, Germany, curated by René Block

2008 Rahncontemporary, Zurich, Switzerland

2007 Rehabilitation, 300m3 Art space, Göteborg, Sweden

2007 Elsewhere, Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel, Switzerland, curated by Sabine Schaschl

2006 Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany, curated by Chus Martínez

2005 The O.K Center for Contemporary Art, Linz, Austria, curated by Genoveva Rückert & Martin Sturm

2002 Bild Museet, Umea, Sweden

2001 If You Could Speak Swedish, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden, curated by Maria Lind

1997 Macka Sanat Galerisi, Istanbul, Turkey

1995 Dialogues, Yerebatan Cisterne, BM Contemporary Art, Istanbul, Turkey, curated by Beral Madra

Selected Group Exhibitions

2025 Through the Prism of Borders, Bolzano Civic Museum, Bolzano, Italy, curated by Katia Anguelova, Angelika Burtscher, Marion Oberhofer→

2025 Gabriele Münter Preis, Museum Gunzenhauser, Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz, curated by Anja Richter→

2024 The 90s Onstage, Kunstverein in Hamburg, curated by Amira Akbıyıkoğlu→

2023 The Politics of Space, Film Programme, Chapter 1, Moderna Museet, Stockholm→

2022 New Acquisitions of the Collection of Contemporary Art of the Federal Republic of Germany, Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz→

2022 The 90s Onstage, SALT Beyoğlu, Istanbul→

2022 Journey To Italy XXI – The Gaze on the Other, Casa di Goethe, Rom, curatet by Ludovico Pratesi→

2022 Identity not Proven, New Acquisitions or the Federal Art Collection, Kundeskunsthalle, Bonn, curated by Susanne Kleine→

2021 Villa Massimo at Neuhardenberg Castle, Presentation of the 2019/2020 German Academy Rome residency winners curated by Julia Draganović→

2021 Studio Bosporus, 10 Jahre Kulturakademie Tarabya, Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin, curated by Stéphane Bauer, Pia Entenmann, Çağla İlk, Susanne Weiß→

2021 Connecting Cultures, Kunstverein euhausen, Neuhausen, Germany, curated y Susanne Jakob→

2021 The Smile of the Sphinx, Collegium Artisticum, Sarajevo, Bosnien Herzegowina, curated by Ilari Valbonesi→

2020 Villa Massimo, Si Avvicina, Villa Massimo, Rome, curated by Julia Draganović→

2019 Zahiri und Batini, Esra Ersen, KISR Hansaplatz, Berlin→

2019 Come On! , Plato Sanat, Istanbul, curated by Marcus Graf→

2017 Scharfstellen 2, Rotor, Graz, Austria, Rotor, Graz, Austria, curated by Margarethe Makovec & Anton Lederer→

2016 How Did We Get Here, SALT Ulus, Ankara, Turkey, curated by Merve Elveren and Erman Ata Uncu→

2016 THE NEW HUMAN, Moderna Museet Stockholm, Sweden, curated by Joa Ljungberg→

2016 Screening, Kunstraum Lakeside, Klagenfurt, Austria, curated by Hemma Schmutz→

2015 SALTWATER: A Theory of Thought Forms, 14th Istanbul Biennial - International Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, curated by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev→

2015 How Did We Get Here, Istanbul, Turkey, curated by Merve Elveren und Erman Ata Uncu SALT Beyoğlu→

2015 The Translator’s Voice, MARCO Museo e Arte Contemporánea de Vigo, Vigo, urated by Martin Waldmeier→

2015 THE NEW HUMAN, You and I in Global onderland, Moderna Museet Malmö, weden, curated by Joa Ljungberg→

2014 25th. Ankara International Film Festival, Ankara, Turkey, curated by Ege Berensel

2013 IN SEARCH OF EUROPE?. Kunstraum reuzberg, Berlin, Germany, curated by aniela Swarowsky→

2013 Transnational Identity in Recent Video Art. The Gallery, NOVA-Woodbridge, USA, curated by Erin C. Devine

2013 UNI/JA-UNI/ON, Open City, Art in public space, Lublin, Poland, Curated by Anda Rottenberg→

2013 Kleider machen Leute ? Galerie im Saalbau, Berlin, Germany, Curated by Dorothee Bienert

2012 Von hier nach dort. Vögele Kultur Zentrum, Pfäffikon, Switzerland, Curated by Alexandra Könne→

2012 The Good Life, Fototriennale, unstbygningen Filosoffen, Odense, enmark, curated by Ingrid Fischer Jonge→

2012 State of Transit, Open Systems – Zentrum für Kunstprojekte, Wien, Austria, curated by Frida Carazzato & Maria Garzia→

2011 Becoming Istanbul, SALT, Istanbul, curated by Pelin Derviş ve Gökhan Karakuş→

2011 Kunsthalle Darmstadt macht Schule, Kunsthalle Darmstadt, Darmstadt, curated by Peter Joch→

2011 Seven New Works, Borusan Contemporary, İstanbul, curated by Mario Codognato and Sylvia Kouvali→

2011 Fiktion Okzident, Tophane-i Amire, İstanbul, curated by Emre Zeytinoglu, Cetin Güzelhan, Johannes Odenthal

2011 Dream and Reality, Istanbul Modern, Istanbul, curated by Fatmagül Berktay, Levent Çalıkoğlu, Zeynep İnankur, Burcu Pelvanoğlu→

2011 Here and There, Amelie A. Wallace Gallery, SUNY College at Old Westbury, New York, curated by Catherine Bernard and Mary Cremin

2011 What’s that you’re watching? Screening programm, Marta Herford Museum, Herford→

2011 Tactics of Invisibility, Arter, Istanbul, curated by Daniela, Zyman Emre Baykal→

2010 No Ifs, No Buts, DEPO Istanbul, curated by Gülsen Bal and Walter Seidel→

2010 Tarjama / Translation, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, NY, curated by Leeza Ahmady, Iftikhar Dadi, Reem Fadda→

2010 No Ifs, no Buts..., Open Space, Zentrum für Kunstprojekte Wien, Austria, curated by Gülsen Bal and Walter Seidel→

2010 Looking for Changes: Academy of Another City, Art in Public Space, Hamburg, curated by Ute Vorkoeper, Andrea Knobloch

2010 Tactics of Invisibility,TANAS, Berlin, Germany, curated by Daniela, Zyman Emre Baykal→

2010 Localities, Museum of Contemporary Art, Roskilde, Denmark, curated by Curated by Sanne Kofod Olsen→

2010 Here & There, Oonagh Young, Dublin, Ireland, curated by Catherine Bernard and Mary Cremin→

2010 Tactics of Invisibility, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Wien, curated by Daniela, Zyman Emre Baykal→

2010 Tanzimat, Augarten Contemporary, Wien, curated by Eva Maria Stadler→

2010 Selected Artists, 2009, NGBK Berlin, curated by Frank Wagner→

2009 Where Everything Is Yet to Happen, Biennial in Banja Luka, Bosnia-Herzegovina, curated by Ivana Bago, Antonia Majača, Nina Möntmann→

2009 Changes in the contemporary City, Sculpture International Rotterdam, Rotterdam, curated by Jos van der Pol →

2009 https://www.sculptureinternationalrotterdam.nl/en/news/sir-cinema-at-coolsingel-in-october-november-and-december/

2009 Selected: 10 years of , rotor Graz, curated by Lejla Hodzic, Margarethe Makovec & Anton Lederer→

2009 Translation/Tarjama, Queens Museum of Art, New York City, curated by Leeza Ahmady, Iftikhar Dadi, Reem Fadda→

2009 Tarjama/Translation: New Video Art, Screening, Asia Society and Museum, New York, curated by Leeza Ahmady

2009 Coalesce: Happenstance, SMART Project Space, Amsterdam, curated by Paul O’Neill→

2009 Becoming Istanbul, Deutsches Architektur Zentrum, Berlin→

2009 35 videos from 35 years of video art in Turkey, 20th Ankara International Film Festival, curated by Ege Berensel

2009 Art (film/video), activism and politics, Wip:Sthlm, Stockholm, curated by Petra Bauer, Michele Masucci, Jesper Nordahl, Karolina Pahlén→

2008 Moment of Agency, Filmprogramm, Kunsthalle Basel / Kunstmuseum Bern, Switzerland, curated by Fatos Ustek→

2008 Übersetzungsparadoxien und Missverständnisse, Shedhalle Zürich, Switzerland, curated by Sønke Gau, Katharina Schlieben→

2008 Personal Protocols and Other Preferences, CCS Galleries, Bard College, New York, curated by Maria Lind→

2008 Re-Reading The Future, Int. Triennale of contemporary Art 2008, National Gallery Prague, curated by Oliver Zybok→

2008 Becoming Istanbul, Deutsches Architektur Museum, Frankfurt→

2008 Save As, Triennale Bovisa, Milano, curated by Derya Yücel→

2008 Gone City, MAGAZIN4 Bregenzer Kunstverein, Bregenz, curated by Gulsen Bal→

2008 Activism and Politics, European Culture Festival a part of European Social Forum Malmö, curated by Michele Masucci, Jesper Nordahl

2008 Hot Docs, Canadian International Documentary Festival, Toronto, Canada→

2008 Documentary Perspectives in Contemporary Art, Vancouver Int. Film Festival, Vancouver, curated by Bettina Steinbrügge→

2008 Candid Stories, Insa Art Space, Seoul, curated by Oyku Ozsoy

2008 Every Story is a Travel Story, Candid Arts Trust Projection Room, London, UK

2008 Damn! I wish I’d done that..., Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff, Wales, Curated by Harold Offeh

2007 Modern and Beyond Santral Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey, curated by Fulya Erdemci, Semra Germaner, Orhan Koçak, Zeynep Rona

2007 Every Wind that Blows, SMART Project Space, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2007 Is this fiction, Istanbul Modern, Istanbul, Turkey, curated by Rosa Martinez→

2007 A forest and a tree, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Wien, Austria, Curated by Pelin Uran

2006 How to live together, 27th Sao Paulo Biennale, Sao Paulo, Brazil,curated by Lisette Lagnado, Adriano Pedrosa, Cristina Freire, José Roca, Rosa Martínez→

2006 4th Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, UK→

2006 Cooling Out - Zur Paradoxie des Feminismus, Halle für Kunst,Lüneburg, Deutschland, curated by Bettina Steinbrügge→

2006 EurHope 1153, Villa Manin Centre for Contemporary Art, Codroipo, Italy, curated by Sarah Cosulich Canarutto and Francesco Bonami→

2006 Verstehst Du das?, Austellungshalle für zeitgenössische Kunst, Münster, Germany, curated by Necmi Sönmez, Gail B. Kirkpatrick→

2006 Cooling Out - on the paradox of feminism, Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork, Ireland, curated by René Zechlin→

2006 The Peninsula, Singapore History Museum, Singapore, curated by Heman Chong→

2006 Cooling Out - on the paradox of feminism, Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel, Switzerland,curated by Sabine Schaschl→

2006 It’s Hard to Touch the Real, Grazer Kunstverein, Graz, Austria, curated by Søren Grammel→

2006 Staring Into Space, video Trafó Gallery, Budapest, Hungary , curated by Heman Chong, Rodney LaTourelle→

2005 Day Labor, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, USA, curated by Amy Smith-Stewart→

2005 EuroPART. Public art project throughout Austria, Austria

2005 Rundlederwelten, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin, Germany, curated by Dorothea Strauss→

2005 EindhovenIstanbul, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, curated by Eva Meyer-Hermann and Charles Esche→

2005 Pursuit of Happiness, Organized and produced by Bureau Beyond, Utrecht, The Netherlands, curated by Tom van Gestel, Liesbeth Bik, and Nathalie Zonnenberg→

2005 Moving..on…, NGBK, Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst, Berlin, Germany→

2005 https://archiv.ngbk.de/en/projekte/moving-on/→

2005 2052 Malmö no Longer be Swedish, Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art, Malmö, Sweden, curated by Charles Esche

2005 Normalization, Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center, curated by Vasıf Kortun, Istanbul, Turkey

2005 How Latitudes Become Forms, MARCO Monterrey, Mexico, curated by Philippe Vergne→

2005 A forest and a tree, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Yellow Bird Gallery, NY, USA, curated by Pelin Uran→

2005 Other, Sørlandets Kunstmuseum, Kristiansand, Norway, curated by Frank Falch→

2005 Der Knochen der Zunge, Medienturm, Graz, Austria, curated by Fatih Aydogdu

2005 Xenopolis, RathausGalerie, Kunstverein München, Munich, Germany, curated by Angela Koch, Pia Lanzinger→

2005 Hilchot Shchenim Chapter C, Israeli Digital Art Lab Holon, Israel, curated by Eyal Danon, Galit Eilat→

2005 Bildmuseet Umeå, University College of Fine Arts, Umeå, Sweden

2005 It's Hard to Touch the Real (Tour), Unge Kunstnerers Samfund UKS, Oslo, Norway, curated by Søren Grammel

2005 Yeans (artist-run-space), Göteborg, Sweden

2005 Tallinn Kunsthalle, Tallinn, Estonia

2004 Coalesce, Model Arts & Niland Gallery, Sligo, Ireland, curated by Paul O’Neill→

2004 Effort, Koldo Mitxelena Kulturunea, San Sebastián, Spain, curated by Juan Antonio Alvarez Reyes→

2004 Minority Report: Challenging Intolerance in Contemporary Denmark, Aarhus, Denmark→

2004 45th October Art Salon, Continental Breakfast, Belgrade Cultural Centre, Serbia and Montenegro, curated by Anda Rottenberg→

2004 Re:Location, Casino Luxembourg-Forum d’art Contemporain, Luxembourg, curated by Enrico Lunghi→

2004 How Latitudes Become Forms: Art in a Global Age, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston Houston, Texas, curated by Philippe Vergne

2004 Swedish Heart, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden, curated by Charlotte Bydler, Rodrigo Mallea Lira, Magdalena Malm→

2004 (EA)Stories, K&S Galerie, Berlin, Germany

2004 Borderline, kino arsenal, Berlin, Germany

2004 Shake Society, Casino Luxembourg-Forum d’art Contemporain, Luxembourg, curated by Enrico Lunghi→

2004 Exciting Europe, Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig, Germany→

2004 Trading Places, The Pump House Gallery, London, UK, curated by B+B→

2004 Green Box, Trafo gallery, Budapest, Hungary, curated by Livia Páldi→

2004 Along the Gates of the Urban, Galerie K & S, Berlin, Germany, curated by Erden Kosova

2004 Along the Gates of the Urban, Galerie K & S, Berlin, Germany, curated by Erden Kosova→

2004 Arte Fierra, Bollogna, Italy, The Balkans - a crossroad to the future, Arte Fiera Bologna, curated by Harald Szeemann

2004 Revolution is Not What it Used to Be, S1 Artspace , Sheffield, UK→

2004 It's Hard to Touch the Real, Dundee Contemporary Art Center, Dundee, curated by Søren Grammel

2003 Poetic Juctice, 8th International stanbul Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey, urated by Dan Cameron→

2003 The way of the ideas, Sala Rekalde, Bilbao, Spain, curated by Chus Martínez→

2003 How Latitudes Become Forms, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, Texas, curated by Philippe Vergne→

2003 10th Biennial of Moving Images, The Centre for Contemporary Images Saint Gervais, CH, curated by Charles Esche→

2003 http://www.image-mouvement.ch/bim/bim10/02prog/bim/bim10/artistes.php?id=grar&sn=E&lg=en

2003 Where? Here?, The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan, Curated by Vasif Kortun, Emre Baykal, Fulya Erdemci→

2003 How Latitudes Become Forms, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy, curated by Philippe Vergne→

2003 Real Utopia, , Graz Culture Capital of Europe, Graz, Austria, curated by Margarethe Makovec & Anton Lederer→

2003 Totally Motivated, Kunstverein München, Munich, Germany, curated by Søren Grammel, Maria Lind→

2003 It Is Hard To Touch The Real, Kunstverein München, Munich, Germany, curated by Søren Grammel

2003 Here, Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center, Istanbul, Turkey

2003 Here, Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center, Istanbul, Turkey→

2002 Manifesta 4, Europan Biennial of Contemporary Art, Frankfurt, Germany, curated by Iara Boubnova, Nuria Enguita Mayo, Stéphanie Moisdon-Trembley→

2002 Pause, 4 th Kwangju Biennial, Kwangju, Korea, curated by Wan-Kyung Sung, Charles Esche, Hou Hanru→

2002 What? A tale in free images, Memling Museum, Burgge, Belgium, curated by Cis Bierinckx

2002 Animation:Video, Centre d’édition contemporaine,Genève, CH→

2002 In Search for Balkania, Neue Galerie, Graz, Austria, curated by Roger Conover, Eda Cufer, Peter Weibel→

2002 8th International Festival of Contemporary Arts CITY OF WOMEN, Ljubljana, Slovenia, curated by Bettina Knaup→

2002 Art and Documentary, TEMPO Documentary Festival, Stockholm, Sweden→

2002 On my way to Timbuktu, ifa Galerie Berlin, Germany, curated by Robert Novak→

2001 Under the Sign of the City, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany→

2001 Becoming a Place, Istanbul Contemporary Art Center, Istanbul, Turkey, curated by Vasıf Kortun

2001 Dare to be different, organized by Cultural Art Center Lind Art, Fier, Albanian

2001 Standardrum, Randers Kunstmuseum, Randers, Denmark→

2000 Divine Comedy, Galerie Urart, Istanbul, Turkey, curated by Ali Akay

2000 Between Condition and Construction, ifu-open space, Hannover, Germany

2000 Showview, Galerie 5020, Salzburg, Austria→

2000 Activ-Reactiv, Lieu Unique, Nantes, France

2000 MK2 projekt cafee, video program, Paris, France, curated by Stéphanie Moisdon-Trembley

2000 International Boutique, Galery Lafeyett, Nantes, France

2000 Sanssouci, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, Germany, curated by Angelika Stepken→

2000 Spring Time, Nicolaj Contemporary Art Center, Copenhagen, Denmark, curated by anne Kofod Olsen→

2000 One night stand, Klemens Gasner & Tanja Grunert, New York, USA

1999 Mode of Art, Düsseldorf Kunstverein, Düsseldorf , Germany

1999 Relation with an Other, Galellery Emsdetten, Emsdetten, Germany

1999 Society and Community, ACC Gallery,Weimar, Germany→

1998 Art Hansa Special, Hansa Gymnasium, Köln, Germany, curated by Uta M. Reindl

1998 Interfaces, Paläontologisches Museum, Münster, Germany

1998 Dialogues-art in scools, Realschule Velen, Münsterland

1996 Dialogues / the lost idea of the oder of things, AKM, Istanbul, Turkey, curated by Beral Madra

1996 Dialogues / the lost idea of the oder of things, Kunstpalast im Ehrenhof, Düsseldorf

1996 A Ding Table, BM Contemporary Art Center, Istanbul, Turkey, curated by Beral Madra

1995 Orient/ation, 4 th International Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey, curated by René Block→

1995 16th. Istanbul Exhibition, Painting and Sculpture Museum, Istanbul, Turkey

1994 5th Istanbul Exhibition, Painting and Sculpture Museum, Istanbul, Turkey

1994 Hope and Responsibility, Ship of City Lines, Istanbul, Turkey

1993 4th Istanbul Exhibition, Painting and Sculpture Museum, Istanbul, Turkey

Lectures

2024 Identity, language, and the right to interpretation, With Prof. Dr. Gürsoy Doğtaş (University of the Arts Berlin), Esra Ersen (Artist), Dr. Sylvia Necker (Prussian Museum Minden), Dr. Marianne Wagner (LWL Museum of Art and Culture), moderated by Dr. Daniel Müller Hofstede, LWL-Museum für Kunst und Kultur, Münster→

2023 Artist talk, Esra Ersen in conversation with curator Dr. Marianne Wagner, LWL-Museum für Kunst und Kultur, Münster→

2023 Digital theme evening, A Possible History. With Esra Ersen and Dr. Marianne Wagner

2020 Spotlight Series: Esra Ersen, Temple University Rome→

New Academy of Fine Arts, Rome

2019 Intersektionalität und KunstbetriebInstitut für Kunst im Kontext, Universität der Künste Berlin→

What We Know, Esra Ersen with Viktoria Draganova , Prof. Alexander Kiossev (Cultural Studies Department, Sofia University) and Kiril Vassilev (art critic), Alma Mater Gallery, Sofia

2016 Institut für Kunst und Kunstwissenschaft, University of Duisburg-Essen→

Auswärtsspiel-Mit der Krümmung der Perspektive Lesen Lernen, Zürcher Hochschule der Künste, Zürich

Kunstraum Lakeside, Klagenfurt, Austria→

2015 Conference, Re-Orientation: Contexts of Contemporary Art in Turkey and Abroad, Center for Advanced Studies der LMU München and Haus der Kunst→

Northwestern University Chicago, Department of Anthropology

Auswärtige Kulturpolitik und interkultureller Austausch, Symposium der Internationalen Gesellschaft der Bildenden Künste (IGBK) und des ifa (Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen)

SALT Ulus, Ankara→

2013 Traces of the Ottoman Era in Bulgaria, Presentation by Esra Ersen and Boris Deliradev, Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien

Helsinki Fine Arts Academy, Helsinki, Finland

Civitella Ranieri, Umbertide, Italia

2011 Gender, Identität, (E)Migration, Center for Advanced Studies der LMU München, Germany

Dresden-Perspektiven für Kunst im öffentlichen Raum, Esra Ersen, Anton Lederer, R. Nachtigäller, H. Mutter & U.Genth, Dr. P.Reichensperger, M.Neeb, Die Kunstkommission für Kunst im öffentlichen Raum der Landeshauptstadt Dresden, Germany

2009 Elsewhere, Selected Artists 2009 - Rahmenprogramm, NGBK, Berlin, Germany

Translation and cultural exchange, Leeza Ahmady, Iftikhar Dadi, Reem Fada, Esra Ersen, Almagul Menlibyeva, Asia Society, New York

2008 Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, New York, USA

2007 Hochschule für Bildende Künste Dresden, Germany

Interflugs Lecture Series, Universität der Künste Berlin, Berlin, Germany

2006 Gasworks Gallery, London, UK

Goldsmiths, University of London, London, UK

2005 9B Talks , 9th Istanbul Biennial, The Future of Migration Society - Migration Project

Marion von Osten, Aytac Eryilmaz, Regina Römhild, Levent Soysal, Esra Ersen

Case study, Lifelong Learning in Museums and Galleries, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden

Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, New York, USA

2004 Europe in Motion, shifting perspectives in transcultural cinema, Berlin, Germany

Rhizomatic Cities, Siebe Thissen, Esra Ersen, Hou Hanru and Jochen Becker discuss urban space and identity, Witte de With, center for Contemporary Art , Roterdam, Holland

Colonising Space, Esra Ersen and Søren Grammel, International conference Riga Sculpture Quadrennial, Riga, Latvia

Displacement, Henrich Heine Universitat, Dusseldorf, Germany

Freie Klasse, Universität der Künste Berlin, Berlin, Germany

The Royal Danish Art Academy, Copenhagen, Denmark Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art, Malmö, Sweden

Malmö Art Akademy, Malmö, Sweden

2003 Art and Societies in Transition, 8th Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey, Esra Ersen , Hou Hanru, Rosa Martinez, Dunja Blazevic , Moderator: Saskia Bos

It Is Hard To Touch The Real, Kunstverein München, Münich, Germany

2002 Wild in the Street, NIFCA, Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland

1998 Hochschule für Bildende Künste Dresden, Germany

Teaching

2013 Lecturer in Fine Art, Helsinki Fine Arts Academy, Helsinki, Finland

2007 Visiting Professor, Hochschule für Bildende Künste Dresden, Germany

2004 The Royal Danish Art Academy, Copenhagen, Denmark

Jury Session

2025 - 2027 Esra Ersen has been appointed to the jury of the Visual Arts section for the Villa Massimo Rome Prize and the Artist Residencies in Italy and France of the Foreign Grants→

2015 Hochschule Burg Giebichenstein Istanbul-Stipendium

2014 Hochschule Burg Giebichenstein Istanbul-Stipendium

2012 Hochschule Burg Giebichenstein Istanbul-Stipendium

2011 Berliner Senat, Die Villa Massimo, die Casa Baldi in Rom und das Deutsche Studienzentrum in Venedig

Berliner Senat, Austauschstipendien nach NY, London, LA, Paris, Moskau und Istanbul

2010 Berliner Senat, Künstlerinnenprogramm, Künstlerinnenförderung Übersichtskatalog und Einzelausstellungstipendium