Zeynep Demirhan
Visual Artist
Architect
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
Lead Digital Artist: Linda Nicolai
Technical Support: Dan Molnar
Sound Design: Tehanu, Merve Bozdağ, Melissa Lara Clissold
Creative Content: Özge Keskin, Bahadır Koçak, Kerem Kaplan, Afşin Şahin
Led the Berlin-based creative team and directed the development of an interactive digital artwork for the VitrA launch event 2026 at Istanbul Modern Contemporary Museum, overseeing project management, budgeting, communication, logistics, and scheduling from concept to final delivery.
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
The artist residency began in December at the Arenberg Creative Mine, resulting in a video mapping project developed through an international collaboration between three artists, which was later presented at the 2026 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
At the international summer school at ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, I collaborated with 13 interdisciplinary artists in an intensive workshop on architectural projection mapping. Over the course of two weeks, we conceptualized and produced a five-minute audiovisual work projected in ultra-high resolution (11K) onto the 170-meter facade of the Karlsruhe Palace as part of the prestigious Schlosslichtspiele Karlsruhe.
Anatomy of Fleeting Rush,
Solo Exhibition,
Bilsart Gallery Istanbul Türkiye
Anatomy of Fleeting Rush(2025) is a solo exhibition exploring existence as a continuous psychological process, where home and city become shifting extensions of the self, and familiarity gradually turns uncanny within an ongoing search for meaning and belonging. Named after a poem in Ece Eldek’s book Mânâ, the exhibition consists of two video works. Continual explores the tension between the familiar and the uncanny through the transformation of matter into a spatial and sensory experience. Dreams of Nowhere reveals the artist’s relationship between body and space within a structure under threat of urban renewal.
CONTINUAL - Moving Image 10’
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.
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DREAMS OF NOWHERE -
Moving Image 3’
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.
SCORPIOS - ARCHITECTURAL SHORT FILM
2026
Creative Agency: GRIYER Production Company: Yakzan Film
Director: Mehmet Akif Sarı Creative Director: Eslem Serra Özen Producer: Nabat Gasanova Author of Idea & Consultant: Seçil Yatan Gül
Architectural Design: GEOMIM
D.O.P.: Kerem Kaplan Music: Tehanu, Melissa Lara Clissold, Merve Bozdağ Dancer: Diana Uzairova Colorist: Mehmet Akif Sarı
Second Unit D.O.P.: Zeynep Demirhan
Editor: Zeynep Demirhan
MKM-ARCHITECTURAL SHORT FILM
2026
Creative Agency: GRIYER Production Company: Yakzan Film
Director: Mehmet Akif Sarı Creative Director: Eslem Serra Özen Producer: Nabat Gasanova Author of Idea & Consultant: Seçil Yatan Gül
Architectural Design: Yalın Mimarlık
D.O.P.: Kerem Kaplan Second Unit D.O.P. & Drone Pilot: Alexander Yakovlev
Music: Tehanu, Melissa Lara Clissold, Merve Bozdağ Sound Designer & Sound Engineer: Nikita Sokolov Dancer: Diana Uzairova Colorist: Mehmet Akif Sarı
Dancer: Elif Aleyna Özdem Costume Designer: Roza Yuldasheva
Editor: Zeynep Demirhan
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.
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
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