Başak Malone is a Turkish-born New York-based curator.
Born in eastern Turkey, the curator specializes in the representation of both emerging and established artists on an international scale. A former psychologist and filmmaker, she successfully combines her Eastern background with a Western setting that is strongly influenced by the thoughts of Georges Bataille and Gilles Deleuze.
Utilizing her experience, Malone has choreographed and organized dozens of global exhibitions and events that explore everything from the intersection of abstraction and figuration to the significance of high and low art. Her projects focus on artists who project an entirely different perspective within the cultural sphere of the art world. After a period spent as an arts research specialist, Malone then began to develop various intercontinental projects where her thematic, conceptual and formal approaches were all fully employed. Some of her exhibitions include, "Continue to Descend" featuring Jeff Koons, "Hotel" featuring British artist Whitney McVeigh, "Lure" featuring Jane McAdam Freud. Malone has spearheaded many unique cultural projects, for example, the first European Outsider Art Fair in Vienna where she organized the selection of the Broadway Gallery's artists. She has also curated many shows internationally in China, including "Prelude" and "Ludus."