Who are we?
Xsentrikarts is a non-profit project incubator. We combine research methods with artistic practice, capacity building and exchange to activate and promote social change, sustainability, inclusion and well-being – in our built environment as well as within ourselves and amongst each other.
We create movies and films, as well as interactive stories.
We use storytelling and artistic practice to inspire and create change; to promote diversity equality; to advocate sustainable, healthy living solutions and dialogue in our lives and our spaces.
We research and organizations, places, people who are engaged in projects that activate or regenerate buildings, communities, and societies.
We have become experts in communicate intricate themes to wider audiences, inspiring and creating change and fostering dialogue.
Researching complicated issues, telling simple stories
We have become experts in communicate intricate themes to wider audiences. We research and practice social transformation, inclusiveness, sustainability and solidarity.
Members of the association come from various backgrounds, including culture, applied arts, filmmaking, contemporary architecture and urbanism. As a result, our work is diverse, and unabashedly interdisciplinary.
Over the years, we’ve created expose’s on urban space and community based living, documentaries on sustainability and cultural preservation, films on social inclusion and equal opportunity, as well as community projects promoting civic activation and regeneration through community involvement.
We include our members in projects we are engaged in, based on need and applicable expertise/skills. We have no staff other than Bahanur Nasya and Yilmaz Vurucu, who are both unpaid and work with the organization on a project basis.
Weve established the “Begegnungsorte” project, which features and promotes stories on socially inclusive spaces throughout the city of Vienna; we’ve created the “Open Heritage” documentary series, which highlights unique heritage sites from across Europe and the stories behind them being repurposed for socially inclusive purposes; We’ve created the award winning feature documentary “The Sea In Me” which highlights the unbalanced relationship between tourism and coastal areas, offering sustainable tourism as a viable alternative, among others.
Founders
Yilmaz Vurucu, filmmaker, researcher, artist
Yilmaz boasts over 20 years of international experience in creating stories, producing, writing and directing films, documentaries, and advertising campaigns. As an award-winning filmmaker, his work covers a wide range of subjects, ranging from the ethics of technological development and AI in his most recent film I Feel Human. Again. (2023) to sustainable urban development in “the Sea In me” (2010), social inclusion and justice in “borders” (2011), social inequality, class struggle and family abuse in “Dr. Zack” (2010) and capturing the stories of adaptive heritage re-use in The Open Heritage documentary series (2020). He’s WP leader for BioYouToon, an Erasmus project promoting awareness on biodiversity among youth via comic book stories; managed the Austrian collaboration in Parking Day for Fitness, an Erasmus sports project; acted as communications manager for the Generative Commons Project, an Horizon 2020 funded project.
His Artistic Based research at the Vienna Fine Arts Academy focuses on the language techniques and methods of coercive structures and their impact in structuring group thinking patterns. You can obtain more information on him and view his work on his personal portfolio site: yilmazvurucu.com .
Bahanur is an architect, researcher, and film producer. She has studied in Vienna and Barcelona where she has specialized in sustainable architecture and future proof development concepts. Currently she is involved in a research project focusing on heritage development, as well as centrality concepts for peripheral or rural settlements, paying special attention to the relationship between environmental and social impacts. She has produced films, documentaries and fiction movies, amongst which “The Sea in Me” and “Borders “. She is co-author of “Represent & Reflect” as part of the Wonderland series and has contributed to the publication “Manual for Emerging Architects”. She is the Head of Organisations at Wonderland – platform for european architecture. In “Open Heritage” (H2020 funded) the aim is to extract successful models out of European best practices, while also creating knowledge sharing products (manuals, films, stories, webinars and training). She is project manager of “PlaceCity” (JPI Urban Europe funded), where the international consortium develops frameworks to revitalize neighbourhoods, in order to create local central hubs for the stakeholders, by using placemaking tools and methods.
Bahanur Nasya, Architect, Researcher, Film Producer
Collaborators
Danny Nedkova, Media Artist & Social Designer
Vienna-based media artist and social designer Danny Nedkova (1995) employs a diverse range of mediums in her works, including photography, film, text and installation to explore themes of social significance. Coming from the field of design and photography, Danny blends her worldview as a social designer with her experience of seeing as a photographer. Through her lens, she seeks to encourage the processes of unlearning and failing in society in order to look together for new horizons.
Contact us
Donaufelderstraße 93/2/3 1210 Vienna, Austria
Association Registration Number: 511273322
Organisation name: xsentrikarts
Institution full name: xsentrikarts– platform for arts
Type of organisation: registered association, NGO
Website: www.x-arts.eu
e-mail: yilmazvurucu@x-arts.eu or dannynedkova@x-arts.eu
Chairman: Yilmaz Vurucu
Secretary: Bahanur Nasya
Field of operation: filmmaking, documentary making, storytelling, social media engagement, multi-disciplinary research, community activation, urban design, communication (publication), research, knowledge transfer, exchange formats, exhibitions.
Established: 24.07.2012