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Necmi Sönmez (1968, Istanbul) studied Art History at the universities of Mainz, Paris, Newcastle and Frankfurt. He completed his doctorate on sculptor Wolfgang Laib at Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in 2000.
His painting criticisms, interviews and translations have been published in Turkish since 1986, such as "Cumhuriyet", "Milliyet Sanat", "Towards 2000", "Rhino", "Argos", "Yazın", "ArredamentoMimarlık", "Our World of Art", " Comma”, “Radical”; In German, “Neue Bildende Kunst”, “Kunstzeitung” since 1990; "Flash Art" was published in English in "Balkan Media" since 1992.
Since 1995, he has organized exhibitions in Türkiye, France, Germany and the Netherlands as an exhibition producer. After working as a curator assistant in Museum Wiesbaden and Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna, he was the curator of the Contemporary Art Department at the Folkwang Museum in Essen (2001-2006). He worked as artistic director at Kunstverein Arnsberg (2006-2009). He worked at FRAC Franche Comté (2007-2010) as a member of the Procurement Committee. Currently, as an independent curator and art historian, he carries out projects with institutions such as Tate, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Deutsche Bank KunstHalle and Borusan Contemporary. Since 2015 he has been working as a freelance editor for the SKIRA publishing house (Milan).