Services - Huma Kabakci

With over a decade of experience across curating, writing, and organising events, I offer tailored services that bring ideas to life – from immersive exhibitions to mentoring sessions that empower emerging voices in the art world.

With over 10 years of professional experience, I bring a comprehensive approach to contemporary art practice that encompasses curating, project management, writing, strategic planning, mentoring and lecturing.

My work spans collection management, public programming, and the creation of immersive experiences that blur the boundaries between art, design, anthropology, and food.

As both curator and advisor, I specialise in supporting multi-disciplinary practitioners, institutions, galleries and collectors through bespoke consultancy services, while also developing innovative exhibitions and site-specific installations that explore food as a medium within contemporary art.

Explore Huma's Work

Curatorial Services

Transform your creative vision into reality with comprehensive curatorial support tailored to your specific needs.

Well-researched and bespoke curatorial proposals
Complete project management from concept to completion
Exhibition design and spatial planning
Advisory on logistics including framing, installation, and photography
Tailored curatorial texts for exhibitions and publications
Site-specific installations and immersive experiences

Mentoring and Advisory

Navigate your creative journey with focused guidance from an experienced professional.

1:1 mentoring sessions for emerging artists and collectors
Small group mentoring with structured focus areas
Strategic advisory for creative businesses (both short and long-term planning)
Collection management guidance
Career development support

Specialised Events

Create unique experiences that explore the intersection of art, design, and culinary culture.

Food and art focused exhibitions and events
Artist supper clubs and intimate workshops
Immersive spaces that blend artistic and culinary practices
Site-specific installations exploring conviviality
Holistic art-based practices

Bespoke Services

Based on your personal and professional needs, timeline and budget I would be happy to work on a bespoke package that will work for both parties involved.

Public talks and lectures at art fairs, galleries, and institutions
Spiritual and holistic art-based event organisation
Writing and editorial services

Every project begins with a comprehensive consultation to understand your vision, needs, and goals. Following our initial discussion, I’ll present a bespoke proposal with pricing options tailored to your commitment, timeline, and specific requirements.

Whether you’re an emerging artist seeking mentorship, a collector building your practice, or an institution planning an exhibition, I offer flexible, responsive service that adapts to your unique circumstances.

Ready to explore how we can work together? Contact me or book a 30 minute one-on-one consultation with me.

Get in touch with Huma

Mirror of Mysteries: Women Artists and the Surreal Legacy

Hold Me Now

The Yellow Mullberry Tree

EGGISM: How would you eat yours? The Vegan Egg Project

Glitch: The City as Palimpsest

Coastal Myths

Transient Roots

I Have Eaten It

Kitchen Takeover

Tender Touches

I had the pleasure of working with Huma on various occasions, most notably collaborating as co-curators on the exhibition Tender Touches, which formed part of the 2019 programme of Huma's organisation Open Space. Huma showed terrific resilience and trust in our work together, and made sure my voice and ideas were well heard in our collaboration.

Through her hard work we created an exciting, unusual and innovative show in Peckham, London, which featured across a plethora of media outlets such as Vogue, Frieze Magazine, Time Out and plenty of others. It's been a pleasure to collaborate with Huma ever since, she always delivers on what she promises and makes sure any artist's work she is engaged in is generously represented.

Inês Neto dos Santos

Interdisciplinary Artist & Co-director of The Gramounce

I had the pleasure of working with Huma at the end of last year. Jade Turanli (Director of Pi Artworks) and I employed Huma for our collaborative presentation of Holly Stevenson’s installation at Frieze Sculpture 2023.

Huma was taken on in the capacity of Performance Coordinator. She had an excellent relationship with the artist throughout the project and communicated very clearly. She worked hard to make the performances a great success.

Huma liaised with publishers, designers, suppliers, and the general public exceptionally well, and it is with my wholehearted recommendation that I hope she will be successful for anyone who is considering her as a candidate.I believe she would be an asset to any institution or professional collaborating with her.

Sid Motion

Founder of Sid Motion Gallery

We organised the "Memory and Continuity: A Selection from the Huma Kabakci Collection" exhibition at Suna and Inan Kirac Foundation Pera Museum in 2016.

The Huma Kabakci Collection (now NHK Collection), initiated by her late father Nahit Kabakci in the 1980s, is one of the few consciously created and well-maintained collections in Turkey.

The exhibition, co-curated by Huma Kabakci and Esra Alicavusoglu aimed to demonstrate the collection's periodically renewed and expanded structure with a certain art historical objectivity, based on specific logic, development, and subjectivity.

In addition to showcasing the contributions of two different generations to the collection, this selection also emphasised the internal consistency and transformation of the collection as a whole.

Looking back, our collaboration was extremely fruitful and successful.

Ozalp Birol

Director of Pera Museum

I had the pleasure to work with Huma in the second half of 2023 for my gallery’s first ever collaborative exhibition, Hold Me Now.

As a gallery that places emphasis on exhibition curation, storytelling, and building long term relationships, the decision to work with a guest curator was a significant one.

Having known Huma for a number of years, I invited her to curate this exhibition as I knew her curatorial interests as well as her personal and professional values were aligned with the gallery’s ethos and the direction of the programme but, most importantly, because I knew she puts herself 100% behind the projects she supports.

Hold Me Now was all about people and care and Huma personified that in her approach with the artists, the works, the general public and all the stakeholders involved in putting together a successful exhibition.

Our collaboration was effortless, I wouldn’t hesitate to work with her again, and I would wholeheartedly recommend her to anyone considering her services.

Alkistis Koukouliou

Founding Director of Ione & Mann