Image: copyright Maria Baranova Suzuki (Watermill Center_STAND)

Profile
Yeliz Celebic is a Bosnian-Turkish multidisciplinary artist working across performance, theatre, moving image and site-specific installation. Her works have been shown at the National Gallery of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Watari Museum of Contemporary Art (Japan), Watermill Center(USA), Château de Belloy Saint-Léonard (France), MESS International Theatre Festival (Bosnia), and Venice International Performance Art Week (Italy). She holds a BA in History (Boğaziçi Univ.) and an MA in Arts Management (UCSC, Italy).

Base of Activity: Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina; Istanbul, Türkiye
Media Used: Performance art, Theatre, Moving image, Installation

Selected CV:
1. "Eve & Eve" Performance and Installation, The Watermill Center - Robert Wilson, NY, USA, 2022
2. "The Escape from the Serail", Performance and Installation National Gallery of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sarajevo, BiH, 2025
3. MA in Arts Management, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy, 2017

Project Plan
During the residency, I will develop "Backstage Tokyo", an experimental project inspired by Kunio Shimizu's play "The Dressing Room", transforming various locations in Tokyo into performative spaces. I aim to combine scenes created in the city with live performance to build a new narrative relationship between body, movement, and the urban environment.