421 Arts Campus
Artists, curatorial team, advisors, and partners connected to 421 Arts Campus.
Artists
Represented and guest artists exhibiting with the gallery.
Curators & programme
Curatorial team and exhibition programming.
Deniz Kirkali
Deniz Kirkali is an independent curator and writer based between Istanbul and London. She holds a PhD in Advanced Practices and an MA in Contemporary Art Theory from Goldsmiths, University of London. She is a co-founder of topsoil, a transnational curatorial and research collective, and Garp Sessions, a summer residency programme in Babakale, Turkey. Recent curatorial projects include Whether it’s a desert or not is irrelevant (Imalat-hane, Bursa), Sweet Garden of Vanishing Desires (Arton, Istanbul) and Reciprocity Muscles (Cala, Berlin). She was assistant curator of the 10th BACA Award Exhibition at Bonnefantenmuseum, the Pavilion of Turkey at the 58th Venice Biennale, and BAHAR, the Istanbul offsite project of Sharjah Biennial 13, and served as managing editor of the YAZ Publication Series for Sharjah Biennial 16. (Source: 421 Arts Campus)
Elham Puriya Mehr
Elham Puriya Mehr is an artist, curator, scholar and writer based in Vancouver, BC. She holds a BA and MA from the University of Art in Tehran, a PhD in Art Research from Alzahra University, and completed a Research Fellowship in Advanced Practice at Goldsmiths, University of London. Her research explores the potential of social-space atmospheres to generate alternative forms of learning and knowledge-making. She has taught at Sooreh University, the University of Art in Tehran and Emily Carr University of Art + Design, was a Research Associate with the freethought collective (2021–2022), and co-curated Unfolding Desire at Trieste Contemporanea (2025). (Source: 421 Arts Campus)