Administration

Oya Eczacıbaşı
Chair

Okşan Atilla Sanön
Vice Chair

Damla Birol
Esra Eczacıbaşı Coşkun
Şeli Elvaşvili
Can Kendi
Özcan Konak
Ethem Sancak
Görgün Taner

Chief Operating Officer
Yasemin Sümer

Artistic Director
Çelenk Bafra

Chief Curator
Öykü Özsoy Sağnak

Business Development Director
İpek Cankat

Corporate Communications Director
Begüm Güven

Curator
Deniz Pehlivaner

Curator
Nilay Dursun

Curator
Ümit Mesci

Curator and Head of Photography Department
Demet Yıldız Dinçer

Education and Social Projects Director
Neslihan Varol

Events Director
Eda Dalçam

Film Curator
Müge Turan

Film Programming Manager
Belkıs Elgin

Finance Director
Oğuz Eriş

Human Resources Manager
Aslı Ergenç

Library Manager
Gamze Pişkiner

Marketing Director
Damla Demir

Membership Director
Seçil Ertuğrul

Museum Shop Creative Director
Doğanberk Demir

Operations Manager
Engin Uzunoğlu

Registration and Exhibition Management Director
S. Gözen Müftüoğlu

Security Manager
Bilsay Çetin

Hoor Al-Qasimi
President and Director, Sharjah Art Foundation

Glenn D. Lowry
Director, The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York (1995–2025)

Suhanya Raffel
Museum Director, M+, Hong Kong

Sheena Wagstaff
Chair Emerita of Modern and Contemporary Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Creative Advisor, Frieze Masters, London

Refik Akyüz & Serdar Darendeliler
Cultural Manager, Editor, Curator; Co-Founders, GAPO, Istanbul

Orhan Cem Çetin
Photographer, Writer, Lecturer, Bahçeşehir University and Koç University, Istanbul

Diane Dufour
Founder and Co-Director, LE BAL, Paris 

Dr. Oluremi C. Onabanjo
The Peter Schub Curator of Photography, The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York

Prof. Dr. Esra Aliçavuşoğlu
Art Historian, Writer; Fine Arts Faculty Member, Marmara University, Istanbul

Çelenk Bafra
Artistic Director, Istanbul Modern

Öykü Özsoy Sağnak
Chief Curator, Istanbul Modern

Fatoş Üstek
Independent Curator, Writer, London