Zeynep Demirhan
Creative Director & Visual Artist
VITRA - DIGITAL INTERACTIVE INSTALLATION
Istanbul Modern Contemporary Gallery
2026
Location: Istanbul Modern Contemporary Gallery, Türkiye
Brand: VitrA
Creative Agency: Griyer Istanbul
Digital Artwork:
Creative Director & Producer: Zeynep Demirhan
Creative Co-Producer & Data Visualization: Mary Gouldsbrough
Digital Artist: Linda Nicolai
Sound Design: Tehanu, Merve Bozdağ, Melissa Lara Clissold
Creative Content: Özge Keskin, Bahadır Koçak, Kerem Kaplan, Afşin Şahin
Video Editor: Zeynep Demirhan
TRANSMITTER - Video Mapping
LILLE VIDEO MAPPING FESTIVAL
2026
Location: Lille, France
Institution: Rencontres Audiovisual
Digital Artists: CTRL.LIGHT / Zeynep Demirhan, Mary Gouldsbrough, Grisha Tsvetkov
Sound Design: Anne Sophie Marquant
Artist residency of Lille Video Mapping Festival
TIME 3 - Video Mapping -
ZKM Center for Art and Media
2025
Location: Karlsruhe, Germany
Institutions: ZKM Center for Art and Media
Instructors: Ruestungsschmie ( Michal Banish, Filip Modest Szambelan )
Digital Artists: 13 International Digital Artists
Sound Artist: Anton Kosstanenk
CONTINUAL - Moving Image 10’
Solo Exhibition Bilsart Gallery
2025
Location: Istanbul, Türkiye
Gallery: Bilsart Video Exihibition Space
Director & Editor: Zeynep Demirhan
Camera: Ali Özkul
Screened LaboCine Cosmovision May 25
Continual, (2025) is a 10-minute video work that explores the physical and mental transformations triggered by fear and panic. Shot in a laboratory setting, it captures a chemical reaction that forms a gel-like substance; metaphorically reflecting the inner shift during a panic attack. For the artist, these moments are linked to societal insecurity, where rising tension causes a disconnection from reality, accompanied by breathlessness, dizziness, and a racing heart.
DISTANCE BETWEEN US - Moving Image 4’
2023
The Distance Between Us (2023) explores self-construction through themes of transition, threshold, and reflection. Using sunlight on water, it creates a hypnotic visual world where surface and depth symbolize the dialogue between external experiences and inner transformation.
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ADAPTATION TO RELATION -
A Collective Video-based Exhibition
2024Location: Istanbul, Türkiye
Exhibition space: CoBAC Workspace
Curator: Zeynep Demirhan, Şiva Canbazoğlu
Performance Artists: Şiva Canbazoğlu, İlayda Evgin
Experiencing the city through dance performances
Adaptation to Relation, (2024) is a video exhibition featuring various parts from the performance How Now Becomes Then, designed by Şiva Canbazoğlu and İlayda Evgin.
Using the time-integrated urban spaces around Eminönü, Turkey, the exhibition offers an experience that transcends time and space, directed and edited by me. It invites viewers to reflect on the traces we leave behind by exploring the relationship between the city and the body.
DREAMS OF NOWHERE - Moving Image 3’ -
Solo Exhibition Bilsart Istanbul
Director & Performance Artist: Zeynep Demirhan
Camera: Ali Özkul
2025
Dreams of Nowhere (2025) , is a 3-minute video exploring settlement and belonging through the relationship between the body, space and city. Filmed in the parking lot of Galeria designed prison-like, Istanbul’s first shopping mall, the video reflects on the mall's history and abandoned state.
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Barnathan Istanbul (Hotel & Restaurant)
- Social Media Contents, 2025
Director & Editor : Zeynep Demirhan
Creative Director: Zeynep Demirhan
Camera & Color Grading: Ali Özkul
NETFLIX, Istanbul Encylopedia 2025
- Making of Documentary
2025
Shooting & Editing: Zeynep Demirhan
Color Grading: Kenan Çekiç
Sound Mixing: PostGarden Studio
Interviews:
Director: Zeynep Demirhan
Production: Emin Kutlu
DOP: Evren Gündoğdu
Camera Assistant: Zahid Candır
Sound Recorder: Özkan Boz
Gaffer: Yusuf Güner
Hair & Make-up: Osman Öztopal
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Faces - Short Documentary 8’
2022
Salt Galata
41. Istanbul Film Festival
Ayvalik International Film Festival
33. Ankara Film Festival
30. International Adana Golden Boll Film Festival
Director & Editor: Zeynep Demirhan
When a person begins to lose her memory, does her presence in this world gradually disappear? What will her memories, emotions and feelings happen? Or can this state of forgetfulness be curative for some situations?
Looking for answers to these questions, Faces (2022) short documentary examines the interaction of memory, time and space in a visual context based on the experiences of director’s grandmother who was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s 16 years ago.
NETFLIX, Istanbul Encylopedia 2025
- Backstage
Backstage Photographer & Retoucher : Zeynep Demirhan
ENTITY, by BUGRA BARAN- Music Clip
2022
Prague Music Video Awards, 2022
Director: Zeynep Demirhan
Director of Photography: Utku Öztürk
Handy-Cam Operator: Tuğkun Zeroğlu
Art Direction: Keihan Khasmakhi
Video editor: Emre Kurt, Zeynep Demirhan
Coloring: Onagöre
Sound Artist: Bugra Baran
Record Label: Ethereal Future Music
Performance artist: Gizem Seçkin
EDUCATION
BA ARCHITECTURE, TOBB ETU ANKARA, TURKIYE
MA FILM AND TELEVISION, ISTANBUL BILGI UNIVERSITY
WORKING EXPERIENCES
Videographer in Griyer for Snohetta x VitrA Campaign in MilanoCreative Director, Digital Interactive Installation with GRIYER, for VitrA in Istanbul Modern Galley
Video Editor & DOP, Architecture and Dance film with GRIYER, Ritual Space Scorpios Bodrum
Video Editor, Architecture and Dance Film with GRIYER, MKM Museum
Video Editor, Block E No.5 Short Documentary by Cagla Gillis
Creative Lead, Director, Video Editor, Barnathan Istanbul, Social Media Creation 2025
Director, Video Editor, NETFLIX Istanbul Encylopedia Behind-the-scenes Documentary, 2025
Backstage Photographer & Videographer NETFLIX Istanbul Encylopedia TV Series, 2025
Video Editor, Invisible but Perceivable yet Unspokable, Short Dance Film, 2024
Director, Video Editor, Faces Short Documentary, 2022
Producer Assistant, PTOT Film and Production Studio, 2022/3
Director, Music Clip Bugra Baran- Entity, 2022
Director, Music Clip, Ludwig Van Beethoven Cello Sonata No.5 in D Major (Op.102 No.2), 2022
EXHIBITIONS & MAPPING
Transmitter, Architectural Mapping | Video Mapping Festival with Rencontres Audiovisual, Lille, France, 2026Architectural Mapping | Summer School, TIME³, ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, 2025
Anatomy of a Fleeting Rush, Solo Exhibition, Bilsart, 2025
Meronomy, Group Exhibition, Simbart Gallery , 2025
Uncanny Thresholds, Minimal Issue F-stop Magazine Group Exhibition, TMMOB Chamber Of Architects Istanbul, 2025 Agenda Photo Contest, 2024
Meronomy, Photography Series, Artweeks Istanbul, X. Edition, 2024
Adaptation to Relation, Video Exhibition, CoBAC Workspace, 2024
Pac-man, Single Image, Venice Biennale, 18th International Architecture Exhibition, Group Exhibition, Venice Turkey Pavilion, 2023
Imprint, Single Image, ShopigoArt Group Exhibition, Tavern/ Istanbul, 2023
There, Photography Series, Group Exhibition, Mamut Art Project, Bomontiada, Istanbul, Art Ankara & Cathan Art Hotel, 2022
Faces, 8’ Short Documentary, Group Exhibition, Base Istanbul, Akaretler, Istanbul, 2022
Labyrinth 3, Group Exhibition, KA Atelier, Ankara, 2019
Representing Itself (Getty Keeping It Modern Project Team), Group Exhibition, METU Faculty of Architecture, Ankara, 2019
AWARDS & SHORTLISTED
Shortlisted, Sony World Photography Awards (Object & Architecture Categories)
Shortlisted, Royal Photographic Society International Photography Exhibition 165,
Shortlisted Prague Music Video Awards 2022, Entity, Bugra Baran Music Clip
Included Beymen Art Collection, Meronomy Photography Series
Faces (Short Documentary, 2022) — Screened and won prizes at 15+ national and international festivals including Istanbul Film Festival, Adana Golden Boll, Documentarist.
Featured “Urban Environments and Agnès Varda’s Genius loci” by Demirhan & Kennedy-Karpat article published in “The Sustainable Legacy of Agnes Varda”, Bloomsbury London
ATELIER, WORKSHOP, JURY
Artist, Architectural Mapping | Video Mapping Festival with Rencontres Audiovisual, Lille, France, 2026Artist, Architectural Mapping | Summer School, TIME³, ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, Germany 2025
Instructor, 212 Photography Festival, Dance/Photography Atelier, Control and Fall, 2024
Director, Istanbul Cinècollective, 2024
Jury 42. Istanbul Film Festival, Short Film Category Jury, 2024
Jury, Cali Koy Short Film Festival, Short Film Category Pre-jury, 2023
Jury, Altin Safran Documentary Film Festival, Short Film Category Jury, 2023
Lecturer, FTV 539 - Filmic Philosophy and Practice, Istanbul Bilgi University, 2023
Lecturer, METU ARCH 190 Model Making Workshop Summer’22 “Presentation on Architectural Model Photography”, 2022
Lecturer, METU ARCH 190 Model Making Workshop Summer’21 “Presentation on Architectural Photography”, 2021
Attendees, Gender Equality and Sustainability: Agnès Varda’s Sustaining Legacy Conference, Istanbul Bilgi University , 2020
PUBLICATIONS
Video, Continual, Labocine, 2025Article about Anatomy of a Fleeting Rush Solo Exhibition, 2025
Video, Istanbul Encyclopedia Behind the Scene Documentary, 2025
Een Magazine, Summer in Stills 2024,
Lens Culture, Portfolio, 2024
F-stop Magazine, Minimal Issue Exhibition, 2024
Sony World Photography Awards, 2023
TIMES UK, Photography, Sony World Photography Awards 2022
Bloomsbury UK, Article, “Urban Environments and Agnès Varda’s Genius loci” by Demirhan & Kennedy-Karpat, 2022
Manifold Kadraj, Photography series, “Olduğu Yer”, 2022