About Elif Süsler-Rohringer

Elif Süsler-Rohringer studied Visual Arts and Visual Communication Design (BA, MA) at Sabanci University (Istanbul) and textile art-design (MA) at Kunstuniversität Linz. Since 2020, she is a doctoral student at the Design History and Theory department of the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. Her current research project focuses on material cultures, diasporic histories and post-migration in Germany, Austria and Turkey analyzing transfers of knowledge in clothing and textile design from the 1970s to the 2000s. She received the 2022 Förderungspreis by ÖGGF (Gender Studies Association Austria) for her doctoral project and has been awarded an ÖAW (Austrian Academy of Sciences) Doc-Team Fellowship in 2022 (together with Ana de Almeida and Lena Ditte Nissen) for the interdisciplinary research project "Stay and tell: memory objects and narratives of appropriation. Tracing social change in text, photographs and patterns within personal archives". In tandem with her academic research, she works in collaborations and research-based performative art projects in cultural institutions. Recently she took part in the 16th Istanbul Biennial’s public program with the artist collective "ÇokAyaklılar", which focuses on documentation and participatory methods of archiving everyday urban life.