About

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