About
My name is Cemre Kara, and I graduated from the ArtScience Bachelor’s programme at KABK in The Hague, Netherlands, in 2021. I am a sensory designer and researcher whose work explores how sensory experiences shape social and environmental awareness. Through participatory installations, performances, and multi-sensory design, I create spaces where audiences become active collaborators rather than observers.
My practice is grounded in research, experimentation, and community engagement. By bridging artistic expression with citizen science, I investigate how collective perception can deepen our understanding of the world around us. I work across disciplines to develop new modes of sensing, sharing, and experiencing environments- inviting participants to notice, question, and reconnect.
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My name is Cemre Kara, and I graduated from the ArtScience Bachelor’s programme at KABK in The Hague, Netherlands, in 2021. I am a sensory designer and researcher whose work explores how sensory experiences shape social and environmental awareness. Through participatory installations, performances, and multi-sensory design, I create spaces where audiences become active collaborators rather than observers.
My practice is grounded in research, experimentation, and community engagement. By bridging artistic expression with citizen science, I investigate how collective perception can deepen our understanding of the world around us. I work across disciplines to develop new modes of sensing, sharing, and experiencing environments- inviting participants to notice, question, and reconnect.
Contact
instagram:@cemredenizkara
links: Upcoming Events
Education
2017-2021: The Royal Academy of Arts - The Hague, NL
2017-2021: The Royal Academy of Arts - The Hague, NL
Residencies
2025:V2 Summer Test Lab Resident, Rotterdam -1 Month Artist Residency in Romania, guest resident of Marginal
2023-2024: Jan van Eyck Academie Post Graduate Residency Program - Maastricht, NL
2021: Artistic Research Residency at Instrument Inventors, The Hague.
2025:V2 Summer Test Lab Resident, Rotterdam -1 Month Artist Residency in Romania, guest resident of Marginal
2023-2024: Jan van Eyck Academie Post Graduate Residency Program - Maastricht, NL
2021: Artistic Research Residency at Instrument Inventors, The Hague.
Teaching Experience
2025: Training Senses Workshop to Medical Students of MUMC, Maastricht
2024: Teaching at Marres Extended, Maastricht, Imagining Scent
2024: Guest lecturer at KABK for Co-Smell LAB
2025: Training Senses Workshop to Medical Students of MUMC, Maastricht
2024: Teaching at Marres Extended, Maastricht, Imagining Scent
2024: Guest lecturer at KABK for Co-Smell LAB
Grants
2025: Stimulering Experiment Grant 2025
2025: Gemeente Maastricht Museaal Beleid Subsidy
2025: DOEN Foundation
2022: Stimulering Experiment Grant 2022
2025: Stimulering Experiment Grant 2025
2025: Gemeente Maastricht Museaal Beleid Subsidy
2025: DOEN Foundation
2022: Stimulering Experiment Grant 2022
Awards
2021: Winner of iii Research Residency Award 2021
2021: Winner of BA ArtScience Department Award 2021, The Royal Academy the Hague
2018: Winning 3rd Prize in Stockholm Music tech Fest for 24 Hours Challenge Hackathon.
2021: Winner of iii Research Residency Award 2021
2021: Winner of BA ArtScience Department Award 2021, The Royal Academy the Hague
2018: Winning 3rd Prize in Stockholm Music tech Fest for 24 Hours Challenge Hackathon.
Features
2025: Brutus Wild Summer of Arts
2024: Designing (for) Tomorrow - Distributed Design
2024: Not to be Sensless
2024: Imagining Scent
2025: Brutus Wild Summer of Arts
2024: Designing (for) Tomorrow - Distributed Design
2024: Not to be Sensless
2024: Imagining Scent
Exhibitions
2025: Dutch Design Week 2025 - Archive of Smell
2025: Wild Summer of Arts at Brutus Rotterdam, July -August 2025.
2025: Public Installation of Archive of Smell, at Centre Ceramique Maastricht, June-August 2025
2024: Exhibition Not to be Sensless at Instrument Inventors, 26.10.24
2021: Installation of Elbows on the Table at OYO-5 Exhibition (1 week) at Haagse Kunstkring
2021: Performance/ Installation Elbows on the Table in the exhibition "Actie" at Grey Space in The Middle.
2020: Installation of Crossmodal Cutlery Set at SHOWCASE: Exhibition (1 week) at Heden Gallery in The Hague
2025: Dutch Design Week 2025 - Archive of Smell
2025: Wild Summer of Arts at Brutus Rotterdam, July -August 2025.
2025: Public Installation of Archive of Smell, at Centre Ceramique Maastricht, June-August 2025
2024: Exhibition Not to be Sensless at Instrument Inventors, 26.10.24
2021: Installation of Elbows on the Table at OYO-5 Exhibition (1 week) at Haagse Kunstkring
2021: Performance/ Installation Elbows on the Table in the exhibition "Actie" at Grey Space in The Middle.
2020: Installation of Crossmodal Cutlery Set at SHOWCASE: Exhibition (1 week) at Heden Gallery in The Hague
Performances
2023: [dis]comfort food, dinner at Grey Space in the Middle, the Hague, 18 May 2023
2023: [dis]comfort food, dinner at Door Foundation, Amsterdam, 24 March 2023
2022: OverKill Festival Metaphysical Tasting, Enschede
2022: [dis]comfort food, dinner at Grey Space in the Middle, The Hague, 14th October 2022
2022: Elbows on the Table Performance at Korzo Theatre, Playground, The Hague, 29/04/22
2022: Dinner performance in How to Set Your Sign on Fire collaboration between Fiber Festival and Sophia Bulgakova at W139, Amsterdam, 2/04/22
2021: Test Dinner VR Food Tasting, The Hague, 5 March 2022
2021:Performance of Dis[Comfort] Food at Instrument Inventors, The Hague, 28-10 October 2021
2021: Performance of Elbows on the Table at Front Row Festival by We Are Public at RADION Amsterdam,9 October 2021
2021: Performance of Elbows on the Table at This Art Fair Amsterdam, 20 August 2021 2021: Today’s Art
2023: [dis]comfort food, dinner at Grey Space in the Middle, the Hague, 18 May 2023
2023: [dis]comfort food, dinner at Door Foundation, Amsterdam, 24 March 2023
2022: OverKill Festival Metaphysical Tasting, Enschede
2022: [dis]comfort food, dinner at Grey Space in the Middle, The Hague, 14th October 2022
2022: Elbows on the Table Performance at Korzo Theatre, Playground, The Hague, 29/04/22
2022: Dinner performance in How to Set Your Sign on Fire collaboration between Fiber Festival and Sophia Bulgakova at W139, Amsterdam, 2/04/22
2021: Test Dinner VR Food Tasting, The Hague, 5 March 2022
2021:Performance of Dis[Comfort] Food at Instrument Inventors, The Hague, 28-10 October 2021
2021: Performance of Elbows on the Table at Front Row Festival by We Are Public at RADION Amsterdam,9 October 2021
2021: Performance of Elbows on the Table at This Art Fair Amsterdam, 20 August 2021 2021: Today’s Art