About Us – Art50.net

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.

Güliz Özbek Collini

Founder

After a distinguished corporate career, Güliz founded Art50.net to bring contemporary art to broader audiences and serve as a platform for a more art-filled life for all. She graduated from Robert College and the Business Administration Department at Boğaziçi University, and later earned an MBA with a focus on International Marketing from Indiana University and San Diego State University. Over the course of her 25-year marketing career, she worked at Pirelli, McCann Erickson, Toyota, and Hilton Worldwide. For the past decade, she has continued her life and professional work in Cape Town, Rome, and Milan, and currently lives between Milan and Istanbul.

Contributors

Yasemin Temizer

After earning her Bachelor’s degree in Economics from Bilgi University, Yasemin continued her design journey through various programs and courses, including studies at the School of Visual Concepts in Seattle. Today, she works as a Senior UI/UX Designer and, as the founder of her own design agency, creates research-based digital experiences for brands and products across different industries. Her work brings together strategy, visual clarity, and user-centered thinking.

Sena Arcak Bağcılar

Sena completed her undergraduate and graduate studies in Visual Arts at Sabancı University’s Visual Communication Design Department. She has worked at institutions including Sabancı University, Sakip Sabancı Museum, and the Peggy Guggenheim Collection. At Casa dell’Arte Art Department, she contributed to guest artist programs, exhibition coordination, and collection consultancy. She has contributed to Art50.net’s content and is pursuing a PhD in Art Science.

İpek Yeğinsü

İpek holds 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 art institutions, handling collection management, exhibition coordination, artist residency management, curating, and gallery direction. She completed her Ph.D. in the Design, Technology, and Society at Özyeğin University. She continues her career independently.

Zilan Gamze Çiftci

Zilan graduated from the Art Management Department at Yeditepe University and previously worked in gallery and collection management. Since 2013, Zilan has focused on the online art market and was responsible for sales, marketing, and artist relations at Art50.net until 2023.

Erhan Bahadır

Erhan Bahadır, an Industrial Design graduate from Ondokuz Mayıs University, currently works as a UI/UX Designer at The Design Dip. He also handles the web operations and digital content management for the Art50.net platform.

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, socially-focused projects at the independent art space PASAJ, which she co-founded. She continues her 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.”