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Beral Madra is a Turkish art critic and curator. She was curator of the two first editions of the Istanbul Biennial ( and ), and has curated five of the Turkish pavilions at the Venice Biennale.

Her curatorial career also includes several international group shows, among them: Orient Express (Berlin, ), Modernities and Memories: Recent Works from the Islamic World (Venice, ), Registering the Distance: Istanbul/Los Angeles (Santa Monica, ), Next Wave: Exhibition of 17 Women Artists from Turkey” (Berlin, ).

Madra was co-curator, along with Răzvan Ion, of the edition of the Bucharest Biennale, titled Edit Your Future, which ran from May 17 to July 8, I met Madra this spring in Romania to discuss contemporary art and politics in Turkey, alongside the trajectory of her important career as an international curator.

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