Yelta Köm

Yelta Köm is an artist who integrates architectural, artistic, and spatial practices to explore social and political issues. Collaboration is essential to his work, which employs diverse methodologies and materials. His projects focus on spatial interventions, resistance movements, technology, and critical perspectives on architectural technologies and representation techniques.
His recent work includes "Nightlife as a Resistance" at Tarabya Kultur Akademie with Ulya Soley, participation in the "Timeless Curiosities" exhibition at Istanbul Modern Museum, and the ongoing "Lines of Displacement" project with Arazi Collective, comissioned by Against Catastrophe.
Köm received his undergraduate degree from the Department of Architecture at Yıldız Technical University and completed his master's degree at the Städelschule Academy of Fine Arts. He participated in Micro Residency (Athens) in 2018 and in SAHA Studio (as part of the Silent University Orientation Program) in 2022. Köm's personal and collective works have been exhibited in several biennials, museums, galleries and art institutions such as Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul Design Biennial, Venice Architecture Biennale, Maxxi Museum (Rome), Goethe-Institut (Athens, Ankara), SALT (Istanbul), V&A Museum (London), nGbK (Berlin), The Art Institute of Chicago, Gallery UM (Prague), transmediale vorspiel Silent Green (Berlin), Chicago Architecture Biennial, TOP e.V (Berlin), and Versus Art Project (Istanbul).

Yelta Köm is currently working as a researcher on the Topological Atlas project hosted by TU Delft and is teaching at Practices and Politics of Representation at the department of Bauhaus Universität Weimar Faculty of Architecture. Co-founder Architecture for All and the artists lives and work in Berlin. He is represented by Versus Art Project; Istanbul.