Defne Ayas is a curator, producer, and publisher in the field of contemporary visual art and its institutions. Ayas is currently the director of the Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art in Rotterdam, where she oversees an exhibition and publication program devoted the question of crisis, be it aesthetic, geographic, economic, communal, ecological, and even spiritual, and how artists and the art world can be active co-creators of politics, institutions and representations, if at all.

Director, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art

Rotterdam, The Netherlands / Turkey