About

Tuçe Erel (1981, Ankara) is a Berlin-based curator, art writer, musician/sound artist, podcaster, and cultural worker. She studied sociology at METU (2005) and art theory and criticism (MA program) at Anatolian University (2009). She did her second MA in Art Arts Policy and Management (with curating pathway) at Birkbeck College (2015).

After working at various institutions in Istanbul as a content editor, event manager, archivist, and gallery assistant, she has been a freelance curator and art writer since 2013. 

In February 2017 she co-curated “Now You are Here” with Seval Şener at Arte Sanat (Ankara) and curated “Fabric/ate” at Schneidertempel (Istanbul). In 2019, she curated “Roots and Growth: Traditional and Contemporary Art from Turkey” at the Museum of Islamic Art and Near Eastern Cultures in Be’er Sheva (Israel) and “Hactivate Yourself” in 1a Space in Hong Kong. In 2020, after the first lockdown of the COVID pandemic, Erel curated “Listening to Listening” at TOP e.V. In 2021, she co-curated “Leviathan: A Capitalocene Beastiarium” with Käthe Wenzel and Lisa Glauer at TOP e.V. and “Sentient Matter with Tina Ribarits at D21 Leipzig. In 2022, she co-curated “Hackers, Makers Thinkers: Collective Experiments in Social Fermenting” with Regine Rapp, Christian de Lutz, Tengal Drilon at Art Laboratory Berlin. In 2023, Erel co-curated “Vicious Cycle”, “Matter of Flux” with Regine Rapp and Christian de Lutz as well as HyungJun Park’s solo exhibition “ARTIFICIAL CONSCIOUSNESS. Exposing the Invisible: Data, Rendering and Code” together with Juha Lee.

Since January 2017, she has been a member of >top e.V., where she curated and hosted events, exhibitions, and a reading group. From February 2018 to January 2020, she hosted the Posthumanism Reading Group at > the top. She stopped her activities at TOP at the end of 2021. From December 2019 to December 2024, she was an Art Laboratory Berlin team member, assisting their hybrid-art-oriented programme.

Her curatorial interests are archiving practices, ecology, Anthropocene, post-human and post-digital theories. Erel uses her sociology education in her curatorial research, and in her research methodology, she prefers to twist and challenge conventional social science methodologies. In recent years, she has explored the concept of hacking as a way to unbox the concepts of bio-politics, Anthropocene, ecological crisis, cultures, non-human agency, artistic speculation and imagination.

In 2023, Tuçe Erel and Korhal Erel have initiated a family business for ambient music called Paralogues. The duo released their first EP via Bandcamp in May 2025. Paralogues are currently working a new sound lecture performance to be premiered in 2026.