Burcu is a curator, cultural manager, and performer who loves to unite diverse audiences with her multidisciplinary content and curation to spark discussions on contemporary issues. To her, art and culture are powerful tools for expression, communication, dialogue, and fostering curiosity, imagination, and hope.

She earned her BA in International Trade from Boğaziçi University in 2004, then shifted focus to the Anatolian Civilisations and Cultural Heritage Master’s Program at Koç University. Concurrently, she enrolled in the Culture and Arts Management Program at the European Cultural Association.

From 2006 to 2010, Burcu coordinated artistic and cultural projects in Kars and the Caucasus for Anadolu Kültür, promoting local cultural production and cross-cultural collaboration. Since 2014, she has been an external expert for the Creative Europe Program, evaluating European cooperation and platform projects. As a junior expert for TACSO in 2012-2013, she worked on training manuals and capacity-building guides for CSOs in Turkey, and in 2021, contributed to a report on EU-Turkey cultural relations assigned by Cultural Relations Platform. Recently, she drafted a report for the Goethe Institut Izmir on cultural and creative industries in Izmir and Antalya.

Since 2016, Burcu has been the founding partner and co-curator of A Corner in the World, focusing on curatorial practices at the intersection of arts, culture, and creative industries. She curated bomontiada ALT’s program from 2017 to 2019 and has collaborated with the Spaces of Culture since 2018, curating the annual Cultural Encounters Program to highlight regional cultural practices around different themes.  She also worked for ATÖLYE as a senior community curator  in 2021.

As a performer, she studied music in Kathmandu in 2012 and completed an M1 in Performing Arts in Strasbourg in 2015. She has performed across Europe. Specializing in improvisation and soundpainting, she works with various groups, including children. She promotes inclusivity in the arts and develops programs for neurodivergent individuals in collaboration with Atta Festival.