59. Esra Gülmen doesn't want to talk about design anymore

Esra Gülmen is a Berlin-based artist and designer from Turkey.
Well, actually when we met she had just ended her very successful
design career to be able to spend all of her time on her art. But
that was a topic that we did not talk about while the tape was
rolling since it wasn’t quite official yet. But I think you can
hear in our conversation that her career in advertising is
something that she had already kind of said good-bye to in her
mind.

Esra has won many, many awards during her time in big agencies
and she has worked with the biggest clients you can imagine, like
Coca-Cola and McDonalds. And during all that time what made her
work so special was the same thing that comes out in her art –
and that’s her humor. She has a way of repackaging complex and
sometimes touchy topic and ideas and showing them in a witty and
poignant way. And that’s also what had attracted me to her
work.

It took me a few months to convince her to come on the show,
since, as she said herself, she sometimes tends to overthink
things. But I’m very happy that I persisted and that she finally
said yes, as I really enjoyed our talk.

By the way we met at the art gallery HVW8 in Berlin where she was
part of a group show at the time. I feel I should mention that
since I butchered their name during the episode more than
once.

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