"Curating Contemporary Art" Seminar Program
Seminar: The Museum Project: The Collaboration Between the Architect- Curator And Exhibition Designer
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Nevra Ertürk Güngör
Date: March 5, 2026, Thursday
Time: 6-7:30 pm
Venue: Zoom
The importance of the collaboration of architect-curator-exhibition designer in the museum project planning, design and implementation process, museum design in Turkey and abroad, institutions that design exhibitions, stages of curatorial work, the scope of curator-architect collaboration, the scope of curator-exhibition designer collaboration, curator's exhibition design. Documents to be delivered to the designer, planning of museums with examples from museum projects in Turkey.
About Prof. Dr. Nevra Ertürk Güngör
Prof. Dr. Nevra Ertürk Güngör holds her bachelor's degree in classical archeology, master's degree in museum studies, and PhD degree in architectural history and theory. She conducted her post-doc research named as ‘museum storage management’ at ICCROM. She interned at the Istanbul Archaeological Museums and the J. Paul Getty Museum, worked as senior researcher at the National Museum of Kenya. She is the Executive Committee Member of the Turkish National Commission for UNESCO and Head of the Tangible Cultural Heritage Expert Committee. She is the Board Member of the Yıldız Technical University Research Center for Preservation of Historical Heritage and ICOMOS Scientific Committee on Risk Preparedness (ICORP) Türkiye. She taught courses at the Department of Conservation and Restoration of Art Works at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, and Istanbul Bilgi University Department of Art and Cultural Management, and she acted as the Head of the Department of Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Property at Yıldız Technical University between 2017-2024. Nevra Ertürk Güngör is an academic staff at the Department of Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Property and her research interest are; cultural heritage management, risk management in museums, curatorial work and museum storage management.
* This seminar is organized in collaboration between Akbank Sanat and Open Dialogue Istanbul
* To learn conditions of participation in a single seminar, we would kindly ask you to send an e-mail to apply@curatingcontemporaryart.org address noting the required seminar details. Single seminar participation fee is 850 TL for adults, 650 TL for students (VAT included).
* The program will take place on the online platform Zoom.