Murat Germen

Murat Germen

Murat Germen is an artist, academic, and archivist using photography as an expression/research tool. Born 1965, he currently lives/works in Istanbul. He has a MArch degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he went as a Fulbright scholar and received the AIA Henry Adams Gold Medal for academic excellence. Works as a professor of art, photography, and new media at Sabanci University in Istanbul. Having many papers, photo series published on architecture/photography/art / new media in various publications, he has lectured at tens of conferences internationally.

His oeuvre focuses on impacts of over-urbanization and gentrification, dis/possession, new forms/tools/methods of imperialism, civic rights, participatory citizenship, sustainability of local cultures, human devastation of nature, climate change, global warming, water rights. In addition, notions like cultural legacy, local archiving, documentation as crime scene investigation, personal/collective memory conflicts, and dynamics of custody/betrayal are central in the artist's works.

He has two monographs, one published by Skira (Italy) and the other by MASA (Turkey). He has opened/joined over eighty inter/national (Turkey, USA, Italy, Germany, UK, Mexico, Portugal, Uzbekistan, Greece, Japan, Russia, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Poland, Iran, India, Australia, France, Canada, Bahrain, South Korea, Dubai, China, Sweden, Switzerland, Egypt) solo+group exhibitions. Numerous editions of the artist’s several artworks are in personal collections of eminent art collectors inter/nationally, in addition to several that are in Istanbul Modern, Proje4L Elgiz Museum of Contemporary Art (Istanbul), Centre of Contemporary Art in Toruń (Poland), Benetton Foundation’s Imago Mundi – Istanbul Codex, Yapi Kredi Bank Culture and Arts Center (Istanbul), Odunpazari Modern Museum (Eskisehir, Turkey), Evliyagil Museum (Turkey) collections.