Selma Laura Köran

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Statement

Selma Laura Köran is an artist of personified chaos—sculpting, claying, stop-animating, and hacking through digital and mythological debris. With Turkish-German roots in Berlin, she calls herself a dilettantish archaeologist, excavating collective memory, pop culture, and fictional ruins to rewrite power through feminist worldbuilding and glitchy counter-myths. Her practice merges sculpture, film, and game aesthetics; humor and disobedience recode patriarchal aftershocks to hijack stories and reshape cultural memory. Nothing remains untouched—code and death masks become tools of repair.

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Education

2017 – 2019: Master of Fine Arts and Design, Dirty Art Department,
Gerrit Rietveld Akademie (Sandberg Institut), Amsterdam, NL

2014 – 2015: Erasmus, Fine Arts, Kadir Has, Istanbul , TR
2012 – 2016: Bachelor Communication Design, HTW Berlin, Berlin, DE

Soloshows

upcoming 2025: GlogauAir Berlin Guest Solo Show, Berlin, DE
2023: Ortstermin // Moabiter Artfestival, Berlin, DE
2022: Art Athina // Zappeion, Athen, GR
2021: Alternation Of Ends // New Viewings // Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin, DE 2021: 6 1/2 Wochen – EXIT ATHENA // Folkwang Museum, Essen, DE

Groupshows (Selection)

2025: upcoming ‚Human Farm‘ // Robert Grunenberg, Berlin, DE
2025: Kunstfonds Stipendiaten Ausstellung // Kunststiftung Sachsen Anhalt, DE
2025: Fluxusmuseum Experimental Film Prize // Fluxusmuseum, Paros, GR
2024: Rubezh – DEATH // Zazerkal‘e, Tbilisi, GEO
2024: Chrome47, Art City e.V // Alte Münze, Berlin, DE
2024: C*nt-a-vision, Hellavision Television // Minneapolis, Los Angeles, Chicago, US
2023: Istanbul Contemporary // Galerie Callirhoe, Istanbul, TR
2023: We tell ourselves stories in order to live // Callirhoe, Athen, GR
2022: New Viewings X-mas Special // New Viewings// Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin, DE
2022: Istanbul Experimental Film Festival // Istanbul, TR
2022: HyperHyper // Callirhoe, Athen, GR
2022: Back to Athens // Art Festival, Athen, GR
2022: Narrative Framings // Metamorphosis, Athen, GR
2022: VICA Art Film Festival // Venice Institute of Contemporary Art, Venice Beach, US
2022: AVIFF Art Film Festival // Cannes, FR
2021: Life on Planet Orsimanirana // Museum für Kunst und Handwerk, Hamburg, DE
2018: Academiae Biennial 2018 – Where Plato taught. Teaching art: Is it Art or is it a Fart?Festung Franzenfeste, Bozen, IT

Publications

2025: ‚Stipendiaten-Ausstellung in Halle
Ein Querschnitt der Kunst, die gerade in Deutschland entsteht‘ // Monopol Magazin

2023: Alem Magazin // 13 foreign artists to watch out for at CI Istanbul 2022: Art Athina Catalogue //
2021: Art Magazin / Starters – Künstlerprotrait / Ausgabe August 21 2021: Life on Planet Orsimanirana, Spector Books

2021: EXIT ATHENA, Folkwang Museum 2021: Folkwang Museum Podcast 15 –

Als die dämmernde Frühe mit Rosenfingern erwachte
2020: LUC Athens – Open love letters
2019: Metropolis M – Endexamen Spezial, August / Septemberissue 2019

Other

2025: GlogauAir Berlin Guest Prize // Berlin
2024: Jury ‚Rubezh- Death‘, ‚International dispora of émigré artists‘ 2024: Kunstfonds Stipendium (Scholarship)
2021: BBK Atelier Funding program
2021: Folkwang Museum 6 1/2 Wochen Projectfunding
2021-2022: Stage- and Costumedesign ‚Kamilo Beach‘ // Volksbühne Berlin 2019-2020: Artist Assistant Saâdane Afif // Berlin

Germany and Turkey

Supported by

Stiftung Kunstfonds

Memoria Artística Chema Alvargonzalez