Övül Ö. Durmuşoğlu is a curator and writer based in Berlin and Istanbul. Durmuşoğlu was the curator of the international contemporary art festival Sofia Contemporary Near, Closer, Together: Exercises for a Common Ground (2013). She organized different programs and events as a Goethe Institute fellow at Maybe Education and public programs for documenta 13. She recently acted as public program curator for the Moving Museum Istanbul. She is working on a long-term research project to take place between Mexico and Turkey, and is also the artistic director of YAMA Public Screen Project in Istanbul.