After
Basak Senova was a
resident
artist at the Angewandte in 2019, she will head the research-based
The
Octopus Programme as a Visiting Professor at the Art and Communicative Practices department in 2020.
The Octopus
Programme will operate through courses based on artistic research and the pilot application will be processed as an exchange
between the Angewandte and the Kamel Lazaar Foundation, Tunis.
Basak Senova is both a curator and a designer;
she has a highly interdisciplinary training and practice. Senova studied Literature and Graphic Design (MFA in Graphic Design
and Ph.D. in Art, Design and Architecture at Bilkent University) and attended the 7th Curatorial Training Programme of Stichting
De Appel, Amsterdam.
As an assistant professor, she lectured in various universities in Turkey and in 2017 she
was the resident fellow at the University of the Arts, Helsinki in co-operation with HIAP and also the same year, she received
Associate Professorship in Fine Arts by the Higher Education Council of Turkey.
Her teaching also extends internationally
in the framework of seminars and educational-turn exhibition projects. She has held the position of Director NOMAD, which
was the first organization (Istanbul-based association) in Turkey with a special focus on digital culture, sound-art and digital-minded
productions for a number of years. She curated the pavilions of Turkey and Republic of Macedonia at the Venice Biennale (2009
and 2015). She co-curated the 2nd Biennial of Contemporary Art, D-0 ARK Underground (Bosnia and Herzegovina); curated the
Helsinki Photography Biennial 2014; the Jerusalem Show VII. Fractures; and acted as the Art Gallery Chair of (ACM) SIGGRAPH
2014 (Vancouver).