Gülce Tulçalı (b.1994) was born in Izmir, Turkey and is now a London-based visual artist whose practice includes moving image, photography and performance. She uses fictional rituals and acts integrated into real narratives, navigating women and the system, merging these worlds. She creates images of a world under extreme patriarchy/authority and re-imagines women-centred coping mechanisms against or through the system and its different apparatuses; whether it's intersection with nature, immigration, social media, or surveillance capitalism. Using various methods from digital processes to darkroom prints, her manipulation of the image in still and moving expands into a performative cinematic practice.
She had her BA diploma in International Management, Economics & Finance from Bocconi University, and she completed her MA Photography degree at the Royal College of Arts. Her work is in various collections such as the RCA Diaspora Collection, the British Film Network archives and private collections. Her work has been screened nationally and internationally such as the Chester Film Festival, Gallery Weekend Berlin and Contemporary Art Ruhr.Her commissions for Ai-Da Robot were exhibited in the Design Museum in the exhibition “Portrait of a Robot” and La Biennale Venice 2023.
She had her first UK solo show: “Rituals for the WorldsEnd” in February 2024 in FourCorners E2. She received SW Darkroom RCA Residency Award and DYCP Grant from Arts Council England. She held workshops at venues like Goethe Institute London and Sirkhane Darkroom & recently was an artist- in -residence in RCA x CCA 2025 degree show and in JOYA air.
Education
Royal College of Arts, MA Photography, 2018-2020
Dissertation: Metastasis: A Decay of a Country and a Body: Turkey from Gezi Park protests to Today
Universita Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, International Management, Economy and Finance, 2013-2016
New York Film Academy, 2017
AFS Exchange Program, USA - 2010-2011
American Collegiate Institute, IB Diploma -2008-2013
Shows
Otherlands, Group Show, Hackney PictureHouse x PhotoMonth, October 2025
Par(it)y with Us, Group Show, Aquabit Gallery x Gallery Weekend, Berlin, April/May 2024
Kelebek Etkisi, Group Show, Kethuda Hamami, Istanbul, March 2024
Rituals for the WorldsEnd, Solo Show, Fourcorners E2, London, February 2024
V.O Open Studios, VO Curations, London, March 2023
Marking Time, Group Show, Hypha Studios x Regent Street W1, London, 2023
Can We Dance Again?, Group Show, SW Darkroom, London, June 2021
Garden of Colourful Mists, Group Show, Haze Gallery, Berlin, May 2021
Hang Ten, Group Show, Art Lacuna, London, May 2021
Where There Were Once Walls, Rake Collective, Online, August 2020
With fists, it kicks, it bites, Group show, Webber Gallery, London, August 2020
RCA 2020- Degree Show/Selected for Diaspora Collection, Online, July 2020
Everything the same// Everything a little different, Group show, Art Academy, London, October 2019
Birthmarks, Installation, Windows 187, Greenwich, September 2019
Workshops
Akbank Sanat, Material: Improvisation, Online Workshop, January 2026
Goethe Institute London, RCA x CCA seminar, London, March 2025
Sirkhane Darkroom, Mardin/Turkey, April 2019
UNWOMEN International Day of Violence Against Women, London, December 2019
Screenings
Chester Film Festival, One Minute Series, March 2025
Close-Up Cinema, One Minute Series, October 2024
One Minute Volume Ten, Galerie Wolf & Galentz, Berlin, October 2023
Folkestone Fringe, Folkestone, July 2023
Unknown Screens, Hypha Studios x WCDD, London, May 2023
Still Moving, Group Show, V.O Curations, London, December 2022
BYOB, Group Show, Lux Moving Image x Bombay Art Foundation, London, November 2022
303 Projects, One Minute Series, Suffolk, February 2022
Contemporary Art Ruhr, One Minute Volume Ten, November 2021
Alternative Night of Experimental Film, Kingston Upon Thames, October 2021
BFI Archives- One Minute Series, October 2020
Remains, Group Screening, Tolli, London, April 2019
RCA WIP Show, RCA Dyson Gallery, London January 2019
Talks
Everything the same// everything a little different, Art Academy London, November 2019
On Object, Histories and Futures, RCA 2020, July 2020
Publications
Tate Modern Off-Print, London, May 2019
Fall Into Place, Folium Publishing, London, August 2020
Residencies & Awards
Joya: AIR , Artist-in-Residence, October 2025
RCA 2025, Artist-In Residence, June 2025
DYCP Grant/Arts Council England - November 2024
SW Darkroom Residency- October 2020- June 2021
Rake Collective Residency- May 2020- July 2020
Contact
gulcetulcali@gmail.com
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