She co-authored two articles with Professor Seza Sinanlar Uslu (Yildiz Technical University, Istanbul). Their first paper, “Mapping Istanbul’s Pera District Between Arrivals and Departures,” examines exhibition spaces and other artistic contact zones in today’s Beyoglu district from the 1840s to the 1960s. It was published in 2023 as part of the ERC project “Relocating Modernism: Global Metropolises, Modern Art and Exile (METROMOD)” (Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich). Their second article, “Art, Solidarité et Lutte: Expositions de Peinture Pendant l’Occupation d’Istanbul,” is scheduled for publication in 2025 as part of the project “La Danse sur le Volcan” (CNR, Paris). Merve presented her findings on exhibitions and networks of local and émigré artists in occupied Istanbul at the 17th International Congress of Turkish Art (Warsaw) in 2023, and her paper was awarded a conference grant from the Istanbul Research Institute. In 2024, she conducted archival research at the Slavonic Library in Prague, where she spent three months as a guest researcher at the Oriental Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences.

MA, Art and Design, Yildiz Technical University and Akdeniz University, 2019
BA, Fashion Design, Izmir University of Economics, 2015

Advisor: Emily Neumeier, PhD