Ahu Antmen

Ahu Antmen Akiska is a Turkish writer, translator, academic and columnist. She got her degree between the years 1989-1994 at İstanbul Üniversitesi Faculty of Communications. Between the years 1994-1995, she completed her masters degree at the University of London Goldsmiths College Department of Cultural Studies. She achieved her doctorate between the years 2002-2005 at the Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University -Faculty of Arts and Sciences at the Art History Department. She works as a professor at the Marmara University Fine Arts Faculty; She gives lectures on 20th Century Art, Art Criticism and Theory, Contemporary Art Practice and Contemporary Turkish Art. At the same time she is also on duty as a professor at the Sabancı University Art and Social Sciences Faculty. Antmen conducts research on issues such as; representations of cultural transitions, transformations and translations; use of the body as a sociopsychological tool in performance; gender inequality in art history; self, identity and gender issues in modern and contemporary art and has organized exhibitions on these issues.