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Bengi Unsal is Director of Institute of Contemporary Arts in London (since 2022)     , having previously been the Head of Contemporary Music at Southbank Centre from 2016 until 2022(ref). She was the founding director of Salon IKSV(ref) (part of the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts). From 2007-2009 she was the Managing Director of Doublemoon Records in Istanbul.(ref)

Life and Career
As the Head of Contemporary Music at Southbank Centre, managing the artist-curated Meltdown festival, securing artists such as M.I.A (2017), Robert Smith (2018), Nile Rodgers (2019) and Grace Jones (2020) as curators. Robert Smith’s 2018 festival was nominated for Music Week Awards’ Festival of the Year

In 2018, Bengi launched Southbank Centre’s first regular club night, Concrete Lates, providing a platform for international electronic artists; she launched the Purcell Sessions , a creative incubation series where artists use the Purcell Room to develop new material or conceive collaborations live in front of an audience; and launched futuretense  , the weekly free slot for international emerging music talent, delivered in partnership with BBC Music Introducing.

Bengi was included in She Said So's Alternative Power Music 100 list in 2018.