Ipek Duben is a contemporary visual artist based in Istanbul. She produces artist books, poetry, installations, video, painting and sculpture. Her work deals with identity issues, feminism, and migration with a strong emphasis on social and political criticism. Besides actively producing and exhibiting art, Duben also acts as an art critic with numerous published essays and books on art and criticism. In recent years her work has been shown in international institutions including Belvedere Museum, Vienna, SALT Galata, Istanbul, British Museum, London, 13th Istanbul Biennial and Akademie der Künst, Berlin. In 2015, SALT published a collection of her essays on art and criticism written between 1978 and 2010.