Murat Gür Sultar
Architect | Visual Artist | Researcher
Barcelona, Spain
Murat Gür Sultar is an architect and researcher working at the intersection of geology, visual culture, and critical urbanism. His multidisciplinary academic trajectory spans Architecture, Art and Critical Contextual Design, with earlier studies in Civil Engineering across Istanbul, Delft, and Barcelona.
His practice investigates deep time, geological identity, material memory, and the politics of preservation. Through artifacts, spatial research, and visual inquiry, he examines how territories construct self-images — and how these narratives obscure extraction, commodification, and ecological transformation.
COLLECTIVE EXHIBITIONS
2026
Where Is Our Mind At? at La Galeria by Lastcrit. Barcelona, Spain.
Traces/Huellas at AADK Centro Negra. Murcia, Spain.
Spring Residency Program at Casa RARO On-site Projects. Barcelona, Spain.
2025
Layers of a City at Ha.aH Art Space. Barcelona, Spain
End-of the-year Showcase by Elisava Critical Contextual Design Master’s Programme. Les Tres Xemenies, Barcelona 2025
ART RESIDENCIES
AADK Centro Negra, Murcia
April 2026
Casa RARO On-site Projects, Barcelona
February 2026
Ha.aH Art Residency, Barcelona
October 2025
EDUCATION
Master’s Degree in Critical Contextual Design
Elisava School of Engineering and Design, Barcelona
2025
Master’s Degree in Arts and Design
Kadir Has University, Istanbul
2023
Bachelor’s Degree in Architecture
Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Istanbul
2019
Civil Engineering Studies (Incomplete)
Yıldız Technical University
2007–2010
Exchange Program
Delft University of Technology
2014
MASTER’S THESES
Decaf Images of the Mediterranean:
Mapping the Imaginary Behind the Decaf Images of the Mediterranean
Elisava Critical Contextual Design Master’s Programme
Barcelona, 2025
Preservation and Its Discontents:
The Moment Before Restoration as a Zone of Indistinction
Kadir Has University, Master’s Programme in Arts and Design
Istanbul, 2023