Veli Başyiğit

Ways of Remembering: Memories, Representations, Contexts

Veli Başyiğit is a cultural manager based in Berlin and a fellow at Off University. His practice focuses on collective memory, encountering difficult pasts, social movements, cultural heritage and disseminating knowledge through creative means. He earned his BA in Cultural Studies from Sabancı University in 2016 and his MA in Sociology and Social Anthropology from Central European University in 2017. From 2018 to 2024, he worked at Anadolu Kültür on various projects in the fields of cultural heritage, transnational cultural collaboration and research-based exhibitions. He is currently involved in the digital archive and online exhibition project Diyarbakır’s Memory, a partnership between Anadolu Kültür and the Diyarbakır Association for the Protection of Cultural and Natural Assets. In 2016, his research report on obstacles to artistic freedom of expression at Turkey’s film festivals was published by Siyah Bant.