Ebru Kurbak

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Ebru Kurbak is an artist born in Izmir, Turkey, and based in Vienna, Austria. She currently is Senior Research Fellow at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, where she leads the long-term arts-based research project The Museum of Lost Technology, funded through an Elise-Richter-PEEK Grant by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF). Kurbak’s work critically examines the entanglements between art, technology, culture, and power. A central trajectory in her practice explores the implications of the historical, social, and spatial segregation of knowledges under colonial modernity. Her investigations have focused particularly on string and string-based technologies rooted in women’s, Indigenous, nomadic, and prehistoric cultures. Kurbak’s work has been exhibited internationally, most recently at Istanbul Modern (TR), NIROX Sculpture Park (ZA), Neue Galerie Graz (AT), and VIENNA ART WEEK 2025 (AT), and previously at ZKM – Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe (DE), the Ars Electronica Festival (Linz, AT), the SIGGRAPH Art Gallery (US), MAK – Museum of Applied Arts Vienna (AT), and the Istanbul Design Biennial (TR), among others. She has undertaken residencies at La Gaîté Lyrique (Paris, FR), V2_ Lab for the Unstable Media (Rotterdam, NL), LABoral (Gijón, ES), NIROX (Krugersdorp, ZA), 18th Street Arts Center (Los Angeles, US), and Eyebeam (New York, US). In 2019, Kurbak received the LACMA Art + Technology Grant from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

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Der interdisziplinäre Fokus „Schwerpunkt Gravitation – Lösen, Fallen und Schweben“ ist ein Format von Florian Bettel, Liddy Scheffknecht und Anna Spohn. Wir diskutieren gemeinsam mit Gastvortragenden die Historizität des Konzepts der Gravitation in Kunst, Technik und Wissenschaft. Jenseits einer naiven Re-aktualisierung von „Kraft“ als konzeptuelles Fundament für eine künstlerische Praxis, eine künstlerisch-wissenschaftliche Forschung oder für kultur- bzw. kunstwissenschaftliche Begriffsbildungen befragen wir die Formen, Techniken, Praktiken, metaphorischen Dynamiken und die diskursiven Rahmungen von Gravitation in Kunst, Technik und Wissenschaft kritisch-transdisziplinär.

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Caption: © Steve Boxall/ZeroG/MIT SEI. Ebru Kurbak, Reinventing the Spindle (2023)

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