Basak Senova is a curator and designer. She studied Literature and Graphic Design (MFA in Graphic Design and Ph.D. in Art, Design and Architecture at Bilkent University. As an assistant professor, she lectured in various universities in Turkey. In 2017, she received her Associate Professorship from the Higher Education Council of Turkey, and resident fellowship at the University of the Arts, Helsinki. Currently, as a Visiting Professor, she is running a research-based educational programme, the Octopus at the University of Applied Arts Vienna.

Senova is one of the founding members of NOMAD, as well as the organizer of “ctrl_alt_del” sound art project, and “Upgrade!Istanbul”. She is the Turkish correspondent of Flash Art International. She is a member of the editorial board of PASS, International Biennial Association’s (IBA) journal. Senova acted as an advisory board member of the Turkish Pavilion in Venice Biennale, the Istanbul Biennial, and the Biennial of Contemporary Art, D-0 ARK Underground in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

She was the curator of the Pavilion of Turkey at the 53rd Venice Biennale. She co-curated the UNCOVERED project (Cyprus, 2011-2013); and the 2nd and 5th Biennial of Contemporary Art, D-O ARK Underground (Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2013 and 2019). She acted as the Art Gallery Chair of (ACM) SIGGRAPH 2014 (Vancouver), the curator of the Helsinki Photography Biennial 2014: Ecological Fallacy and the Jerusalem Show VII: Fractures (2014). From 2017 to 2019, she worked on CrossSections, a research/process-based art project and curated five group and three solo exhibitions in the context of the project in Vienna, Helsinki, Stockholm, and Rome in 2018 and 2019.