Safigül Kurtyiğit is a visual artist based in Ankara, Turkey. She completed her undergraduate studies in the Department of Painting at Gazi University, graduating as valedictorian of her department and second in her faculty, and received her MFA in Sculpture from Hacettepe University.

In her artistic practice, Kurtyiğit approaches the city as a multi-layered field of memory shaped by historical, social, political, and ecological processes. Within this framework, she critically examines the effects of war, forced displacement, and violence on children, urban spaces, and collective memory.

Working through research-based methodologies, she investigates transformed, erased, or invisibilized urban spaces and their impact on individuals, collective memory, and human–nature relationships. Across sculpture, installation, drawing, photography, digital art, and archival research, she combines field documentation, found materials, architectural remnants, 3D modeling, and visual archives to trace fragile narratives embedded in space. Her digital practice further extends this inquiry into questions of urban power, architecture, and spatial control, revealing the relationship between physical environments and their virtual representations.

Her works have been exhibited in Turkey and internationally. She held a solo exhibition at the 500th Anniversary Foundation Turkish Jews Museum and has participated in exhibitions including BASE Istanbul, 34 Gallery, and Boomer Gallery (London), as well as Solitary Open Call – Online Group Exhibition (Africa) and various digital art platforms in the United States. In 2026, her works were presented in curated digital art exhibitions in New York (Madison Avenue) and Denver, Colorado, including as part of ETHDenver 2026. She also participated in The Wrong Biennale – An Authentic Delirium at AMP Gallery, Peckham, London.

Kurtyiğit is a selected artist in the Al-Tiba9 Artists Directory 2026 in the Painting and Photography sections.