Ece Pazarbaşı works and walks on the merged borderline of curatorial practice and artistic research as her main profession. Her practice revolves around interdisciplinary crossovers that result in alternative formats of education. With a special interest in multi-layered approaches, she has realised many projects on sound, urbanism, digital and analogue public space, participatory art, food, and the technology of the human body. Since 2005, she has been developing alternative educational formats. In 2019, she founded the Field Kitchen Academy, a one-of-a-kind interdisciplinary educational residency program that transcends existing borders between research and practice with innovative, experimental tools and experiences on holistic knowing and thinking. In 2014, she established the Berlin Art Grant Clinic, a support structure for artists, curators, NGOs, and creative minds pursuing self-sustainability.
Her curatorial experiences include Timebenders at Neue Nationalgalerie (2025); Cabinet of the Unknown at Werkbundarchiv – Museum der Dinge (2017); Bank Blank, the main exhibition of 48 hrs Neukölln (2018); Memory Plates within the frame of Festival of Future Nows at Hamburger Bahnhof (2017); Muscle Memory at Kunstraum Bethanien/Kreuzberg (2017); 12/12 and Turkish Art Nice and Simple at Tanas Berlin (2011–2012) together with René Block. She was the assistant curator of the 52nd Venice Biennial Turkish Pavilion (2007).
She worked with the New Museum – New York for Ideas City: Istanbul (2012) as project coordinator and in 2009–2010 served as Consultant and Program Specialist of Visual Arts for Turkey at the Strategic Planning and Development Department for the Abu Dhabi Authority for Culture and Heritage, UAE.
In 2016, she received Kulturstiftung des Bundes’ 18-month special stipend for International Curators and, in 2013, was awarded a research grant from Olafur Eliasson’s Institution for Spatial Experiments (IFREX).
Among her artistic positions are contributions to the Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin Festival of Future Nows within the scope of Sticks and Stones, an intervention by David Chipperfield (2014), and the project TELL ME WHAT YOU EAT and I Tell You Where You Live at Wilhelm Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen (2014).
Additionally, she has published numerous articles in art journals and exhibition catalogues and has edited or contributed to more than thirty publications. Her curatorial expertise is regularly sought internationally: she nominated the winner of the Mario Merz Prize 2024 in Sound Art and New Music; has served on juries for the Istanbul–Berlin Artist Residency Program of the Berlin Senate (2023), the Ausland Berlin Residency for sound art and experimental music (2023), the Project Funding Jury of Bezirksamt Kreuzberg-Friedrichshain (2019–2021), and the Two-Year Basic Funding for Project Spaces and Initiatives of the Berlin Senate (2019). She has been an international juror for Apexart New York and, since 2021, an advisory board member of the Berlin Bosphorus Initiative — the Berlin branch of TÜSIAD (Turkish Industry and Business Association).