Gulshan karamustafa biography of michael

By Anna Niederlander

Gülsün Karamustafa is a Turkish artist and activist, who was born in Ankara in and currently lives and works in Istanbul. Her artistic practice ranges widely and includes installation, video and painting and she uses personal and historical narratives to motivate and influence her work.

Her works explore socio-political issues in modern Turkey. Solmaz Bunulday Hasgüler and Tuna Şare classify her work into three main categories; migration, identity, hybridism, memory, and boundaries; personal history and her own experiences as they relate to the themes in the first category; and works about gender roles and femininity.

A lot of her works address issues of forced migration, such as The Apartment Building ().

It is a small replication of the building she lived in since The actual building is located in one of the most popular areas in Istanbul and was built in by a Greek family named Vaslamtzis. The Vaslam