Harun Elibolca is a Berlin-based experience designer and creative producer working across cultural formats, communities and participatory experiences.
His practice moves between physical and digital worlds across music, art, hospitality, technology and social wellbeing. Digital tools are integral to research, communication and production, while human presence, care and lived experience remain at the centre of the work.
Grounded in hospitality, field production and direct audience experience. Care, service and lived experience remain the measure.
Presented at the Italian Cultural Institute in Istanbul as a parallel event of the 15th Istanbul Biennial, NOT AN ARTIST was an Istituto Europeo di Design research project on the evolving roles surrounding contemporary art.
Harun Elibolca, founder and director of Gigology, joined Tamara Chalabi, co-founder of RUYA Foundation and curator of the Iraqi Pavilion at the 2017 Venice Biennale; Deniz Ova, director of the Istanbul Design Biennial at IKSV and curator of the Turkish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale; and Alessandra Ricci. Moderated by art critic and curator Igor Zanti, the conversation explored how cultural professionals connect artists, institutions and audiences.
A selected, intentionally incomplete record of artists and acts invited to take part in festivals, special concerts, events, club nights and cultural programmes.
An artist-led large-format show shaped through creative direction, spatial production and live delivery.
An urban culture and electronic music festival moving between streets, warehouses and clubs — the places where subcultures are born, shared and renewed.
A day-to-night format built around selected locations, considered hospitality, relaxed sociality and groove-led music.
A nocturnal swimming format where music, water and social life gather around the pool, from dusk until late.
An open-air social format bringing music, landscape and community together from daylight into sunset.
A sunset-to-midnight Bosphorus journey connecting Asia and Europe through electronic music.
Editorial publishing, audience development and live-programming context for the Istanbul edition.
edizionizero.com ↗
Current product and research field translating offline cultural practice—gathering, hosting and belonging—into digital product and membership infrastructure.
sundaze.app ↗