Demet MüftüoÃÂlu Eà Âeli (born 1974) is a curator, creative director and the co-founder of ISTANBULâÂÂ74. Since 2010, she has been the Creative Head of Istanbul International Arts & Culture Festival (IST. FESTIVAL) which she produced with Alphan Eà Âeli for the festival founder Liberatum and Pablo Ganguli.
Demet MüftüoÃÂlu-Eà Âeli studied Business Administration at Bilkent University, followed by a move to New York where she studied at the Fashion Institute of Technology.
In 2009, MüftüoÃÂlu-Eà Âeli co-founded ISTANBUL'74 with her husband Alphan Eà Âeli, an independent platform that has been organizing cultural events festivals, exhibitions and artistic collaborations with creative thought leaders from around the world. ISTANBULâÂÂ74 has collaborated with leading international galleries such as Lehmann Maupin Gagosian , Hauser and Wirth as well as designers and artists including Sandro Kopp Tracy Emin, Alex Prager, Angel Otero, Robin Rhode, JR, Idris Khan, Jonah Freeman & Justin Lowe, José Parlá, Inez & Vinoodh, Anton Corbijn, Defne Koz, Kezban Arca Batñbeki, Mehmet Ali Uysal, Diana Al-Hadid, Delfina Delettrez, André Saraiva, Robert Montgomery Stephen Jones, Sandro Kopp, Waris Ahluwalia amongst others.
In 2010, MüftüoÃÂlu-Eà Âeli produced the Istanbul International Arts and Culture Festival, (IST. Festival) for Liberatum and festival creator Pablo Ganguli.