Ceylan Öztrük (b. 1984 in Ankara, Turkey. Lives and works in Zurich) investigates the normative aspects of knowledge production. Through her multidisciplinary artistic work, she creates narratives with the specific information that transforms knowledge into tools of power. Her autotheory writings find bodies not only in proses but also in sculptures, installations and performances. She completed her practice-based PhD (2016) in Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University (Istanbul) that she initiated her subject in Vienna in Academy of Fine Arts on Post Conceptual Art Practices in 2014. She received her graduate (MFA-2011) and undergraduate (BFA-2006) degrees from the Fine Arts Faculty, Sculpture Department at Anadolu University. Some of her exhibitions and performances are Self-specular, a moment, Galerie PhilippZollinger, Zürich (2022); Matter of non, FriArt Fribourg Kunsthalle, Fribourg (2021); Orientalien, Gessnerallee Theatre, Zürich (2020); Am a Mollusk, too; re/producing tangents, Longtang, Zürich (2020), IV. Berliner Herbstsalon, Berlin (2019); Oriental Demo, My Wild Flag Festival, Stockholm (2019); Speculative Domestics: Ai (Artificial Intimacy) Showroom, Alienze, Lausanne (2019); Call me Venus, Mars, Istanbul (2016).