Senem Gökçe Oğultekin’s works operate at the interface of dance, film, visual arts and music. After studying stage dance at the Folkwang University of the Arts, which she completed with the Folkwang Dance Prize, she worked as a freelance performer with VA Wölfl/NEUER TANZ, Meg Stuart, Mara Tsironi and Laurent Chétouane, among others, and performed at Théatre de la Ville de Paris, Kunstenfestivaldesartes, Biennale di Venezia and Tanzplattform Deutschland.

As a singer, she sang Schönberg’s “Erwartung” in “NEUES STÜCK von NEUER TANZ” by VA Wölfl and in Chétouane ́s “Bach/Passion/Johannes” she took on the role of the Evangelist.

Her choreographic film Dun/Home was selected by Istanbul Modern Museum for Artist ́s Film International 2019 by Whitechapel Gallery London and was shown in renowned galleries and museums around the world. Her vocal choreography “HARK!” in collaboration with Luísa Saraiva was performed in Germany and internationally. In the summer of 2022, she shot the choreographic film VOID with Levent Duran in the Welzow Süd open-cast mine, the film premiered at Rencontres Internationales in Paris/Berlin in November 2024.

Senem Gökçe Oğultekin was awarded the Allbau Foundation Culture Prize in 2020 and was appointed to the Junge Kolleg of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts in 2021. And has recently become a member of the Young Academy Berlin.

In her work, she searches for a body that experiences the world not only visually, but with all its senses. She questions the primacy of vision and the optical control associated with it and strives for a physical shift in perspective in which people engage with “others”. Her work reflects a political vision of togetherness in which the human being does not function as the dominant center, but understands the world from the perspective of the “others”. All her works have a social reference, often through abstract or vague associations.