About

Yelta Köm is an artist working through spatial practices, trained as an architect at Yıldız Technical University in Istanbul and in the Architecture Class of the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main, and based in Berlin. His work combines counter-mapping, critical cartography, installation, video and research, with a long engagement with water, displacement and territory along the Tigris, including work with Arazi Assembly alongside people from villages flooded by the Ilısu Dam.

He co-founded the collective Herkes İçin Mimarlık / Architecture for All in 2011, was associate curator of Vardiya / The Shift, the Pavilion of Türkiye at the 16th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia (2018), and worked as a researcher on the ERC project Topological Atlas / Border Topologies (TU Delft and Goldsmiths) from 2019 to 2022. He chairs the board of TOP e.V., which runs TOP Project Space in Berlin.

Since 2022 he has been a research associate at the Chair of Practices and Politics of Representation, Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, where his doctoral research follows the spatial and visual regimes of the Ilısu Dam, the flooding of Hasankeyf and displacement in the Tigris basin.

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Represented by Versus Art Project, Istanbul
Exhibition design and scenography: Studio No Frame ↗