Bilge Hasdemir (she/her) is Helsinki based researcher and curator exploring and thinking through the context and conditions of socially responsive art/institutional practices toward building equitable and sustainable futures, collective instituting, labour and migration struggles in the cultural sector, and critical policy analysis.
She was a Marie Skłodowska-Curie PhD fellow at the University of Iceland as part of an Innovative Training Network researching the emergence and development of socially engaged art and the future of European independent art spaces. While her fellowship has ended, she is currently in the final stages of completing her PhD.
During her time in Iceland, she was an active member of AIVAG (Artists in Iceland Visa Action Group), advocating for just & equitable immigration policy and liveable & desirable working conditions for artists and cultural practitioners.
Previously, she worked as a Curator at Aalto University as part of a unit dedicated to curating and mediating transdisciplinary projects across art, science, technology. Committed to social and ecological justice and community engagement, she continues to investigate within the field of contemporary art and curating the functioning, possibilities, and challenges of new artistic working models, experimental spaces and critical infrastructures in a socially engaged context under contemporary neoliberal conditions.
Bilge is interested in collaborating on research, public programming, and exhibitions as a medium for collaborative knowledge production and contributing to socially engaged processes and institutional practices that are responsive to the urgencies and pressing crises of our time.