Betül Seyma Küpeli
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Betül Seyma Küpeli is a visual artist, author, architect, and filmmaker. She studied Architecture at the Technical University and Conceptual Art at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Her digital art and video works engage with questions around post-migrant knowledge, post-colonial criticism, and social critical diagnoses.
Her works operate at the intersection of digital media and painting, moving images, text, and artistic practice in virtual and urban spaces. She has contributed to a multitude of collaborative projects both organizationally and curatorially. These include architecture workshops, performances with artist groups, multimedia video art, and cultural mediation. Her interests include sociopolitical and sociocultural conditions in neoliberal capitalism, urban substance, body politics, public space and its (re) appropriation, urban studies, the relationship between society and history in contemporary art. Her works and performances were recently presented at the Festival of the Regions Austria 2021, Kino Ebensee 2021, Vienna Week 2020, Munich City Library / Lothringer13 Florida Munich 2019, Vienna Festival Weeks 2019, Porn Film Festival Vienna 2018, Styrian Autumn '18 Vienna 2018, Gorki Theater Berlin 2016. She has also been regularly writing columns for the Qamar magazine in the Art and Culture category since 2020.
In 2022, she received the start-up scholarship for visual arts from the Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, Public Service, and Sport. The Academy of Fine Arts Vienna supports her for 2022/23 within the framework of the Art Mentoring Program. For her diploma thesis, she was awarded the Commendation Prize 2022 by the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. She receives the Schindler Award 2022 for Los Angeles (US). In 2020, she received the collective prize of Vienna's free scene for the project Opus Maleficarum. In 2017, she was awarded the kültü gemma! scholarship. She receives the Honorable Mention for Archidiploma 2016 and the Social Compatibility Prize 2013 in Berlin (DE).
Her works operate at the intersection of digital media and painting, moving images, text, and artistic practice in virtual and urban spaces. She has contributed to a multitude of collaborative projects both organizationally and curatorially. These include architecture workshops, performances with artist groups, multimedia video art, and cultural mediation. Her interests include sociopolitical and sociocultural conditions in neoliberal capitalism, urban substance, body politics, public space and its (re) appropriation, urban studies, the relationship between society and history in contemporary art. Her works and performances were recently presented at the Festival of the Regions Austria 2021, Kino Ebensee 2021, Vienna Week 2020, Munich City Library / Lothringer13 Florida Munich 2019, Vienna Festival Weeks 2019, Porn Film Festival Vienna 2018, Styrian Autumn '18 Vienna 2018, Gorki Theater Berlin 2016. She has also been regularly writing columns for the Qamar magazine in the Art and Culture category since 2020.
In 2022, she received the start-up scholarship for visual arts from the Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, Public Service, and Sport. The Academy of Fine Arts Vienna supports her for 2022/23 within the framework of the Art Mentoring Program. For her diploma thesis, she was awarded the Commendation Prize 2022 by the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. She receives the Schindler Award 2022 for Los Angeles (US). In 2020, she received the collective prize of Vienna's free scene for the project Opus Maleficarum. In 2017, she was awarded the kültü gemma! scholarship. She receives the Honorable Mention for Archidiploma 2016 and the Social Compatibility Prize 2013 in Berlin (DE).