Çağla Meknuze is an award-winning poet and interdisciplinary artist with a background in journalism
Text, Performance, and Installation in Dialogue
She graduated from Galatasaray University’s Faculty of Communication (Istanbul, Türkiye, 2007) and began her professional media career as an editor at NTV, Türkiye’s largest and first news channel, where she worked between 2008 and 2011. Her final role in media was as the founding digital publishing director of The Art Newspaper Türkiye, before ultimately turning her full attention to her artistic practice, driven by a deep commitment to artistic production. Her poetry first gained recognition with an Honorable Mention in the Yaşar Nabi Nayır Youth Award (2015), organized by Varlık, Türkiye’s oldest and most established literary magazine. The manuscript, The Corpse of a Woman Saint, was later published as her debut poetry book. Her poems have appeared in various international publications, including the World Poetry Almanac (2017–2018), and have been translated into more than ten languages, including German, English, Dutch, Croatian, Bulgarian, Persian,
and French.
Alongside her writing, she develops text-based and conceptual installations that explore the interplay between metaphor and reality. In 2014, she participated in her first group exhibition, Young, Fresh, Different V at Zilberman Gallery, where her work was selected through a competitive jury process. She has since presented her work at numerous international literary and art festivals, combining poetry, live performance, and installation to create thought-provoking experiences.
Currently based in Luxembourg,
she continues to develop projects at the intersection of literature and contemporary art.
Program
AWARDS
2021 – Baksı Culture and Arts Foundation Anatolia Awards, Baksı Museum Young Artist Residency
Program
2020 – Selected as an artist-in-residence at Writers Unlimited (The Hague, Netherlands) for the Be
Mobile – Create Together! international project, organized by İKSV, Institut Français de Turquie, the Embassy of the Netherlands in Ankara, and the Goethe-Institut.
2015 – Yaşar Nabi Nayır Youth Awards (Honorable Mention – Poetry), Varlık Magazine
RESIDENCIES, FESTIVALS & PERFORMANCES
• July 2026 – Coracle Europe Literary Residency, organized by Kultivera (Tranås, Sweden)
• July 2026 – Tranås at the Fringe 2026 (Tranås, Sweden)
• April 2026 – ART VISUALS & POETRY FILM FESTIVAL – Official Competition (Best Poetry Performance), Vienna, Austria
• November 2025 – Ó Bhéal’s 13th Poetry-Film Festival (Competition Shortlist), Cork, Ireland
• November 2025 – MOON International Video Poetry Festival ’25 (Competition Shortlist), Oeiras, Portugal
• April 2025 – 12th International Video Poetry Festival, Athens, Greece
• Versopolis Poetry Expo 25 – “The HUNT” Video Poetry Performance (available online)
• August 2024 – Artist-in-Residence, 2nd Commagene Biennial, Adıyaman, Türkiye
• October 2023 – Poetry Performance, Ordsprak – Uppsala International Poetry Festival, Sweden
• September 2023 – Poetry Performance, SOFIA METAPHORS International Poetry Festival, Bulgaria
• May 2022 – Artist-in-Residence, Baksı Museum Young Artist Residency Program, Bayburt, Türkiye
• January 2020 – Writer-in-Residence, Writers Unlimited, The Hague, Netherlands
• October 2018 – Writer-in-Residence, Croatian Writers’ Association, Zagreb, Croatia
EXHIBITIONS
• November 2025 – First Edition of the Nicosia Biennial, Nicosia, Cyprus
• August 2024 – 2nd Commagene Biennial, Adıyaman, Türkiye
• February–May 2024 – Group Exhibition: The Unseen City, YUNT, Istanbul, Türkiye
• January 2022 – Group Exhibition: İmece 2.0, Barın Han, Istanbul, Türkiye
• July–August 2014 – Group Exhibition: Young, Fresh, Different V, Zilberman Gallery, Istanbul, Türkiye
EDUCATION
B.A. in Communication, Galatasaray University (francophone university), Istanbul, Türkiye, 2007
Lycée Tevfik Fikret (francophone), Izmir, Türkiye, 2003