About Us

Love, Share, Live with Art

Art50.net is an online art platform that brings together artists, collectors, and all art enthusiasts under one roof. It offers its audience the opportunity to discover brand-new and original contemporary artworks without time and space limitations.

Nurture your love for art.

In our Artlog section, you can find information on many intriguing topics about art through interviews with experts and artists, Art50campus content, and articles covering fascinating aspects of the art world. With the collector’s guide offered through Art50.net, you can take your first step into collecting or expand your existing collection based on our guide.

Live with art.

Through art, you can transform, color, and give new meanings to the spaces you live in. You can follow our curated selections on various themes, created in collaboration with experts. By sharing photos of the artworks you live with, you can inspire fellow art enthusiasts like yourself.

Our Team

Güliz Özbek Collini

Founder

After a comprehensive corporate career, Güliz founded Art50.net to bring contemporary art to different audiences and serve as a tool for a life filled with art for everyone. After completing her studies at Robert College and Boğaziçi University in the Business Administration Department, she pursued an MBA focused on International Marketing at Indiana University and San Diego State University. Throughout her 25-year marketing career, she worked at companies such as Pirelli, McCann Erickson, Toyota, and Hilton Worldwide.

Zilan Gamze Çiftci

Sales & Marketing

Zilan, a graduate of the Art Management Department at Yeditepe University, has previously worked in gallery and collection management. Since 2013, she has focused on the online art market and is currently responsible for sales, marketing, and artist relations at Art50.net.

Contributors

Yasemin Temizer

After completing her Bachelor’s degree in Economics at Bilgi University, Yasemin pursued various design courses and studied at the School of Visual Concepts in Seattle. She works as a freelance experience designer in the UI/UX field. Yasemin interned at Art50net, and since then, she has enjoyed being part of the team and is one of the members of the Art50net family.

Sena Arcak Bağcılar

Sena completed her undergraduate and graduate studies in Visual Arts at the Visual Communication and Design Department of Sabancı University. She has worked at institutions such as Sabancı University, Sabancı Museum, and the Peggy Guggenheim Museum. In addition to coordinating Guest Artist Programs and exhibitions at Casa dell’Arte Art Department, she also provided private collection consulting. Sena currently works as an Education Assistant at Sabancı University and supports content production at Art50.net.

İpek Yeğinsü

İpek graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in International Relations and a Master’s degree in Anatolian Civilizations and Cultural Heritage Management from Koç University. She has worked at numerous contemporary art institutions, handling collection management, exhibition coordination, guest artist program management, curating, and gallery direction. She completed her Ph.D. in the Design, Technology, and Society Department at Özyeğin University. İpek continues to provide content and curatorial support to Art50.net.

Zeynep Okyay

Zeynep completed her Bachelor’s degree in Philosophy at Galatasaray University and then studied cultural management at Bilgi University. Since 2011, she has been running participatory and socially-focused collaborative projects in the independent art space PASAJ, which she co-founded. She continues her artistic and cultural work under the PASAJ and amberPlatform umbrellas. Zeynep Okyay was responsible for artist relations at Art50.net from 2014 to 2016.

Aylin Seçkin

After serving as a faculty member in various cities in Canada, Aylin Seçkin returned to Istanbul. She has been pursuing her academic career at the Economics Department of Bilgi University since 2001. Known for her research on art and cultural economies, she continues to work on research projects sponsored by institutions such as the European Union and TUBITAK.

Marcus Graf

Marcus Graf works as a project manager, curator, educator, writer, and artist at various art institutions. After serving as a faculty member at the Faculty of Fine Arts at Yeditepe University since 2003, he earned the title of Associate Professor in 2012. In addition to being the permanent curator of Plato Art, Marcus also served as the director of the 9th Contemporary Istanbul.

Why Art50.net?

“We can hear you asking, ‘Can an artwork be purchased without seeing it in person?’… With Art50.net, we offer you a wide range of artworks in different styles and options that would be hard to find under one roof, accessible to you anywhere with an internet connection, without the limitations of physical space and time.”