Simay Ber Baran

Born in 1998, Simay started her fine arts education in high school and received her bachelor’s degree from Istanbul Bilgi University as a double major student in Comparative Literature and Arts and Culture Management in 2022. During her time as a student, Simay worked as a translator for a local publishing house focusing on fictional literature and for the Cultural Policy Research Center in Istanbul (KPY). She is responsible for grant research and event organization support in her project assistant role in Theater Cooperation. Simay also had editorial and social media managing experience at a culture magazine under the brand Medyascope in 2021.

As of September 2022, she has worked as a project assistant in the web archive project (WAWA) of Apartment Project e.V., focusing on the indexation of women+ artists from Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Palestine, Syria, Turkey, and Yemen who migrated to Berlin. For WAWA, she is responsible for artist communications, team coordination, and research. Simay is interested in socially engaged art and the collaborative management and organization of events in non-profit art spaces.