Meli R. Öztürk completed her bachelor's degree at Yıldız Technical University, Faculty of Art and Design, Department of Art and Culture Management. She continues her Combined Arts at the same faculty and master's degree in Painting at Marmara University.
Her practice is grounded in institutional critique, focusing on spatial memory, archiving practices, representation policies, and visibility. She transforms her artistic practice through site-specific and relational works, employing methods such as counter-mapping, counter-archiving, and game-making.
Through archiving practices, she produces indirect layers that can be read ironically and progressively through processes such as erasure, preservation, and anonymization. In her projects, she focuses on the transparency, accessibility, and semantic depth of institutional processes. The artist's approach proposes new paradigms regarding the common methodologies followed in transferring historical and cultural accumulation to the future and explores pseudo-archival possibilities.
Öztürk lives and works in Istanbul.
