Biography

topsoil is a transnational curatorial and research collective formed in London in 2017 by Sofía Villena Araya, Deniz Kirkali and Amelie Wedel. Based in San Jose, Istanbul and Berlin, the founders seek to bring into dialogue their various contextual and disciplinary perspectives, pursuing learning through friendship. In prolonged conversation, the founders discuss how to work and think with each other, prioritising care and sensibility as well as drivers of their research and practice. They initiate long-term collaborative research projects with thinkers and practitioners outside topsoil to collect methods and tools that help them move towards a shared goal while still being attentive to specificities. topsoil practices self-publishing as a kind of transnational curatorial practice. The collective received a scholarship from the School of Commons, Zurich (2023), and has participated in events at cultural spaces such as Vierte Welt, Berlin.

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