About

Naz Balkaya is a Turkish artist-curator based in London. Both of her artistic and curatorial projects generally promote collaboration, solidarity and safe networking, representing the millennial conditions and supporting the emerging artists. Currently, her research stimulates a feminist voice that questions the history of occult, magic and mystical practices and their correlation with the climate. She generally works with multi-media such as performance, writing, sound, sculpture and painting.

Collaboratively, she works through her artistic and curatorial collective, Panicattack Duo, which she established with Cypriot artist Emilia Demetriou in 2014. Panicattack mostly work with curating, performance, video and photography. They curated social events and took part in more than 30 exhibitions in different spaces in the UK and EU, including Stanley Picker Gallery, South London Gallery, Tate Exchange, Liverpool Biennial 2018 and Hardwick Gallery. 

EDUCATION

Goldsmiths University MFA Curating, 2018

Kingston School of Art BA Fine Art, 2016

Central Saint Martins, Foundation Diploma, 2015