About

Zuleykha Ibad

Zuleykha Ibad

A curator and art advisor working across contemporary art, language systems, and institutional infrastructures. Projects explore how meaning is produced and circulated through alphabets, archives, and bureaucracies-often within transnational contexts.

This platform serves as a space to assemble and share curatorial processes, collaborations, and references that move between art-making, research, and cultural mediation. Operating between institutions and independent formats, Ibad focuses on long-term processes with attention to structural conditions and how they shape artistic and discursive agency.

Background

Grants & Awards

  • Eastern Europe Grant, Salzburg Academy of Fine Arts, 2025
  • EU4Culture Mobility Programme, EU4Culture, 2024
  • Culture Moves Europe, Creative Europe, 2023
  • Culture of Solidarity, European Cultural Foundation, 2023

Residencies

  • Salzburg Academy of Fine Arts, 2025
  • Art Encounters Foundation, 2024
  • Latvian Centre of Contemporary Art, 2024

Education

  • NODE Curatorial Studies Berlin, Curating the Digital, 2024
  • MA Art Management & Curating, Budapest Metropolitan University, 2021
  • BA Fine Arts & Production Design, Azerbaijan State University of Culture and Arts, 2019