Yelta Köm (b. 1986, Istanbul) is an artist and architect whose work traverses the intersections of spatial practice, artistic research, and political engagement. His projects explore the entanglements between environment, technology, collective action, and architecture, asking how space becomes a site of resistance, care, and memory. Through collaborations, installations, and research-driven works, he investigates the politics of representation, witnessing, and belonging in contexts shaped by ecological devastation, migration, and extractive urbanization.

Collaboration is central to Köm’s practice. He is a co-founder of Architecture for All, an Istanbul-based collective working on social and political issues through architecture and design. His recent collective and individual projects have been presented at the Istanbul Biennial, Venice Architecture Biennale, MAXXI Museum (Rome), Victoria & Albert Museum (London), Goethe-Institut (Athens, Ankara), Kunstmuseum Moritzburg (Halle), nGbK (Berlin), Istanbul Modern, and the Chicago Architecture Biennial. His solo exhibitions include all familiar, all foreign (Versus Art Project, Istanbul, 2023) and Urban Surveillance Bureau (TOP Project Space, Berlin, 2022).

Writing plays an integral role in Köm’s artistic and research practice. Through texts such as the ongoing Berlin Notes series (manifold.press), and essays including Transformation of Architectural Practice and the Pandemic (2021) and Seed of Awareness (XXI Magazine, 2018), he reflects on witnessing urban life, ecological collapse, and the shifting conditions of artistic and architectural production. His writing often bridges poetic observation with spatial critique, treating the act of writing as both documentation and intervention.

He is currently teaching at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, where he works in the field of Practices and Politics of Representation. He has participated in residencies including Tarabya Kulturakademie with Ulya Soley(Istanbul), SAHA Studio (Istanbul) with Silent Universitu, and Micro Residency (Athens). Köm lives and works in Berlin and is represented by Versus Art Project, Istanbul