about

Corç George Demir (*1991 in Cologne,GER) is a interdisciplinary artist and researcher working across visual and theoretical practices. His work engages with global (art)historical visual languages to address migration, class and queerness from a postcolonial perspective. By connecting personal experience with collective histories, he aims to expose structural inequalities and foreground marginalised voices.

Demir‘s practice centres on how iconographies and narratives operate as carriers of power and identity, historically as well as contemporary. Auto-ethnography is a key method through which he examines marginalised positions while critically deconstructing dominant structures of power.
His work is radically interdisciplinary and draws on an experimental approach to international artistic handcrafts. Historical and seemingly historical references intersect with pop-cultural elements to form a visual language that remains in constant transformation and invites critical reflection.

Corç George Demir is currently a PhD candidate in artistic research at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. His doctoral project Ancestral Junctures: On the Expansion of Ancestral Mythologies explores how dominant concepts of ancestry can be reconfigured. By decentralising nation-states and biological lineages in favour of labour-based and queer ancestral lines, he approaches ancestry as relational, speculative and non-normative.