Nezihe Karakaya

Nezihe Karakaya is an Antakya-born, Istanbul-based interdisciplinary artist and researcher working at the intersection of visual art, short film, movement analysis. Her practice is built on a single inquiry: how does a moving body generate form?

She holds a PhD from Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University (July,2025), where her doctoral research developed an original physico-visual methodology for transforming choreographic work into visual art through improvisational technologies — awarded as a Type-C scientific research project by MSFAU - BAP.
Her earlier research traced a parallel inquiry: her master’s thesis at Mimar Sinan explored the visual syntax of sound, mapping the analogy between atonal music and abstract painting through Paul Klee’s concept of polyphony. This work was shaped in part by her synesthetic perception, recognized by musicologist Prof. Rokus de Groot during her studies at Codarts Rotterdam Dance Academy, Netherlands (2015).

Trained simultaneously as a painter and a contemporary dancer, she has worked across Istanbul, Rotterdam, and Kassel. Her films have screened at the Kassel Documentary Film Festival, Stockholm Dance Museum, Ethnographic Museum Warsaw, Ankara CerModern, and Goethe Institut. Her visual works have ...