Gulsen Bal is a curator and an art and visual culture theorist and the founder and inaugural director of Open Space, the influential art forum based in Vienna.
She is Senior Lecturer and the Programme and Course Leader of the MA Contemporary Curating Programme and joined Manchester School of Art as subject leader in Curating for UG Programmes in Art Theory & Practice. She previously held the position of Visiting Research Fellow at Manchester School of Art working in Contextual Practice, with her main focus in curating.
She undertook her doctoral studies at Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design where she also completed her MA in Critical Fine Art. Her research interests have been situated within diverse methods for practice-based research in curatorial practices in relation to the implications and complexity of the “production of the subject.”
She is on the editorial board for Third Text journal (Routledge Publication, London), and member of International Association of Art Critics (ACIA), London and International Association of Curators of Contemporary Art (IKT), Luxembourg.
Gulsen has curated and contributed to Art Fairs and Biennials and participated in talks and conferences nationally and internationally. She has published wide range of articles in peer reviewed journals and magazines and, to date, has edited fifteen books.
